Kelela: 'You can never have enough music that empowers black women'

Kelela's debut album, "Take Me Apart" (Warp), is bold stuff - genre-blurring, trippy, glitchy, seductive, intimate, vulnerable - beauty and weirdness forged out of struggle and pain.

It arrives only a few months after Kelela's 34th birthday, more than a decade after she began flirting with the idea of pursuing her musical passion only to encounter a series of dead ends. She broke through in collaborations with artists such as Solange and Gorillaz's Damon Albarn and with a buzzed-about series of recordings before tying all the musical