Gone (featuring Cee-Lo)
Esthero
We R in need of a musical ReVoLuTIon!, 2005

As I previously mentioned at great length, Esthero is back with a new EP. I got my hands on a promo copy and I am not disappointed! (that’s big for me…)

Each track is in a totally different style but they’re all good vehicles for her voice and they all work as a unit as well. It was really hard to pick one song to feature but I settled on “Gone,” her duet with Cee-Lo. It actually reminds me of another great duet that she did that I don’t think made it very far. She was the other half of “How Could I?” on John Forte’s little known second album, I, John. (If someone has that MP3, or better yet, the CD, hit me up!)

I haven’t really lived with this song very long but here are the things that jump out at me right now:

1) the way in which they both used harmonies on single words and partial phrases for emphasis and variation:
–@1:35 -”…I was meant to be your freedom…”
–@2:54 -”girl, how could say that you ??? me, we used to have such a hot thing…”

2) how late in the song Cee-Lo comes in and how Esthero (or her character in the song) starts to sound shook where she was confident for the first 3:00 minutes.

When I first heard Cee-Lo’s voice come through my headphones, I thought, “how did THAT come together?” but then I remembered that she and Cee-Lo go back at least as far as their collaboration on “The World I Know (Country Livin’ Version)” on the Slam Soundtrack (1998).

Here are snippets of the other tracks:
1. We R in need of a musical ReVoLuTIon!
2. Everyday Is A Holiday (With You)
3. Gone (featuring Cee-Lo)
4. This Lullaby
5. I Drive Alone
6. Amber And Tiger’s Eye

The first five tracks are available at the iTunes store. You can click here to launch your iTunes and go to her page.

>> songs are available for two weeks [7.1 MB]

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