So Much Love (Album)

Tracklist:

Til Morning Comes
Love Rules
Dance With You
Man Enough
Golden Days (feat. Rick Braun)
So Much Love
Wake Up
Life Is Good (feat. Eric Marienthal)
Writing On The Wall
With You (feat. Eric Marienthal)
You’re The Only One
Loved By Love
Through All
So Much Love is Douyés sophomore album and this album comes with 13 original tracks. Again, all tracks were written by Douyé and her co-writer, Terry Shaddick, a renowned British born song writer well known for his song titled “Physical” by Olivier Elthon John. The album title “So Much Love” is a tribute to the legendary Afrobeat musician, Fela Kuti.

Douyé continues to maintain a sound that is rich in tone and sophisticated in sound and delivery. The songs in the album showcases Douyés styling with a blend of classic R&B, Afrobeat and Jazz roots. This album features great musicians as, late, Ricky Lawson, Eric Marienthal, Rick Braun, Philippe Saisse and more.

ALBUM REVIEW
Here is an excellent album of Contemporary R&B from a talented singer. Growing up in the Nigerian capital of Lagos, Douyé was raised in a household where the sounds of legends like Billie Holliday, Sarah Vaughn, and Ella Fitzgerald were everywhere.

In her album “So Much Love”, Douyé continues that skillful soul with smoldering vocals that are flavored with elements of jazz, R&B, and a dash of spicy Afrobeat.
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This is Douyé’s second CD, and I’m sticking with my assessment of her as a mid-point between Sade and Randy Crawford who captures an evanescent Motown echo much more succinctly than others have.

Once again she’s teamed with Terry Shaddick (ex-Tranquility) to produce a sound that’s gorgeous, lush, evocative, and sensuous, Golden Days a dreamy prime example. More, the two really know how to pick musicians—catch the Average White Band-y title cut for a great example—though a number of the cuts’ credits are curiously indistinct. Beyond even that, Eric Marienthal and Rick Braun guest, and there’s an interesting potpourri of co-arrangers and co-producers, such as Phillippe Saisse. A hell of a lot of work went into this release.

Douyé’s music is just something you have to surrender to, as it sweeps the listener up in its rich textures and heavenly melodies, a feast for the senses, a collection of paeans to love and positivity carried enticingly by her ceaselessly melodious singing. “Wake Up” is an interesting expansion of that, a call for the human race to shed its dull everyday moribundity and start to live, a gentle clarion call for our rough times to just knock it off and become human again.

So Much Love flows from one cut to the next like sparkling champagne, soft-footin’ and gently be-bopping. On the other hand, “Writing on the Wall” starts venturing into Lonnis Liston Smith cosmic vales, leaving the travails of terra firma for the twinklng stars and far reaches beyond the fields we know.

No matter where you plan on cutting in on this disc, though, you’re going to find yourself transported out of the workaday realm and into better days and better ways.
– OneLUV FM