If you haven’t heard by now, you clearly must have been living under a rock, but D’Angelo is back.  This past week, he resurfaced, doing his first live performances in over a decade.  Judging from the first couple shows on his European tour, his music is just as strong, performing old classics and debuting new music (yes, we finally have new music from D’Angelo).  The internet went into a frenzy this past week with visual evidence of D’Angelo’s return flooding YouTube and many music blogs.  When he first announced his comeback tour, I was cautiously optimistic a full audio recording may surface, and it didnt take long for our prayers to be answered.  Big thanks once again to the great folks at Funk It, here is the full audio of D’Angelo’s set @ Le Zenith in Paris from a few nights ago.  Setlist and download are after the jump, as well as a stream of one of the new songs.

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D’Angelo and The Soultronics…. man, what an amazing tour that was back in 2000.  Backed by Questlove, Pino Palladino and some of the funkiest cats in the game, this performance would put a huge smile on JB’s face.  Here’s a soundboard recording of D’Angelo performing a funktastic version of Jonz In My Bonz.  Hit the jump for the audio.

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