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Janelle Monae Reveals Dates For February 2011 Shows & Tickets
Saturday, 04 December 2010 Written by Jon Stickler
Janelle Monae Reveals Dates For February 2011 Shows & Tickets

She’s been called “a different kind of diva” by Vogue Magazine and “a true visionary…one of the most important signings of my career” by Sean “P. Diddy” Combs. For singer,songwriter, and high funkstress Janelle Monáe, however, the impetus remains the same asit’s been since before her Grammy-nominated debut EP Metropolis, 'Suite I: The Chase' captured the imaginations of fans and fellow artists. As she readies her first full-length LP, 'The ArchAndroid', her focus remains on stirring your soul, moving your feetand simply, creating good music.

Releasing May 18th, 'The ArchAndroid' blends the talents of executive producers NateWonder, Chuck Lightning, Janelle Monáe and Sean “Diddy” Combs, with co-executiveproduction by Big Boi of Outkast. ““Musically, The ArchAndroid is an epic James Bondfilm in outer space,” describes Monáe, “in terms of influences it’s just all the things I love— scores for films like Goldfinger mixed with albums I adore such as Stevie’s Music of my Mind, David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, and jamming experimental hip hop stufflike Stankonia.”The ArchAndroid is a soaring, orchestral trip enlivened with blockbuster vocals,mysterious imagery, and notes of 60s pop and jazz. “It’s an organic symphonic sound,”says Monáe, who enlisted the talents of the Wondaland ArchOchestra to realize her sound. Elaborate orchestral arrangements were composed and conducted by Nate“Rocket” Wonder and Roman GianArthur for Wondaland Productions.

Featured guests include the legendary Big Boi of OutKast, renowned poet Saul Williams, the psychedelicdance-punk troupe Of Montreal and punk prophets Deep Cotton. The album realizes the next chapter in the story of Cindi Mayweather, the heroine of Monáe’s debut album 'Metropolis'. She has been sent to free the citizens of Metropolis from the Great Divide, a secret society using time travel to suppress freedom and lovethroughout the ages. “It’s said that when the ArchAndroid returns, it will mean freedom for the android community,” explains Monáe. “Cindi Mayweather realizes that she is indeed the ArchAndroid.”If this all sounds like the plot of a great movie, the Wondaland crew views each album asthe creation of an “emotion picture.” Says Monáe, “The ArchAndroid is very inspiring for me. In terms of writing the music, we wanted the story to be very compelling, but we alsowanted to make sure that the journey we’re taking people on makes them feel like they’rewatching one big emotion picture.”

The writing process was incredibly intense foreveryone involved. “The music would sometimes wake us up in our sleep. We’d recordmelodies on our phone. Sometimes we’d stay up for days at a time just writing this music. The story and visions coming to us were so great that we wanted this music tocapture everything we were feeling inside.”“Over the last year and a half when we were recording 'The ArchAndroid' I went through avery transformative period in my life,” explains Monáe, who has spent the time between albums traveling the world on tour. She’s joined artists No Doubt, Paramore and ErykahBadu on dates in various cities around the globe, including Istanbul, Berlin, Moscow and New York.

Janelle Monae has announced the following UK Shows for February 2011.

Thu-24-Feb-2011 – Bristol O2 Academy
Fri 25-Feb-2011 - Birmingham HMV Institute
Sat-26-Feb-2011 – Glasgow O2 Academy
Mon 28-Feb-2011 - Manchester Academy 1
Tue 01-Mar-2011 - London Roundhouse

Tickets For Janelle Monae's February 2011 UK Shows are onsale from 9am on Tuesday 7th December.

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