Hearing Georgia Anne Muldrow the first time can be quite a rush. Today’s marketplace (labels, radio, fans) awards safety. Risk-takers, inventors, defiant-progressives are rarities. Yet, here is Georgia, the prodigy, literally doing everything on her debut album, Olesi: Fragments of an Earth, which would be noteworthy in itself, even if the album was a run-of-the-mill R&B throwaway. However, this do-it-all effort becomes a revelation when the 22-year-old Muldrow sings every note of each complexly layered song; writes each word of inspired romance, social critique and abstract musings; and produces each melodic, off-kilter, but on-time, track. Muldrow even threw song-structure in the can and remodeled the verse-chorus-verse-chorus boredom with dense lyrical refrains and lean ramblings. What she’s doing is so new and fresh and daring that you don’t know how things are going to turn out, the risk being that she’ll either change the game or continue the gem-making in obscurity.

Who is Georgia Anne Muldrow, this young woman who is set to turn your ear on its ear? You might have heard her on the Platinum Pied Piper’s Triple P, the Stones Throw’s Chrome Children Vol. 1 compilation or, perhaps, on her own 2006 EP Worthnothings. Or maybe you haven’t heard of her at all. To that end, we got her to take a break from reinventing music to kick it with Lady Grace at the Alternative Soul Café. Press play to get the goods on an artist that is taking things higher…