New Releases Drummer Trevor Lawrence Jr comes from a rich Musical heritage and his debut album ‘Relationships’ is a brilliant set of Jazz and Soul tracks,featuring a stella cast of musicians, yet another future classic on the Ropeadope label. Trevor also appears on the Terrace Martin presents the Pollyseeds album out last week which is another essential album. Sabrina Malheiros brings us some Brazilian sunshine with her superb new album 'Clareia' out now on CD and LP, all we need now is the Sun to go with it. The Voices of East Harlem single 'Cashin In' /'Take A Stand', is...
Darien Dean returns with a really good contemporary Soul album 'Departures' which has old school values, instruments, good songs and melodies and good vocals. I hope that you can join us Tomorrow when Darien will be in store at 1.30pm launching the album in the UK and signing copies of the CD. if you can't make it but would like a signed copy you can pre-order one here. NEW RELEASES Drummer Trevor Lawrence Jr comes from a rich Musical heritage and his debut album 'Relationships' is a brilliant set of Jazz and Soul tracks,featuring a stela cast of musicians, yet another future classic on...
Terrace Martin presents his group The Pollyseeds harnessing the talents of many great musicians including Robert Glasper, Kamasi Washington, Trevor Lawrence jr and many others to make an outstanding Jazz and Soul album, full of hypnotic vocal and instrumental tracks , the soundtrack to the summer of '17. UK artist Terri Shaltiel has made a very interesting 7 track EP/CD of Funky/Bluesy Soul well worth a listen and Irene Rene has a really nice quality Soul album due in tomorrow. There are a few new releases on the Dutch Isole label plus a great 10" single from Zara McFarlane 'All Africa'....
NEW RELEASES Outta Sight records have compiled what is quite possibly the best so far in their Modern Soul compilation series with Soul on the Realside Vol 7, featuring 20 classic tracks mainly from the 70's , everyone a winner. The legendary Loma label from the late 60's is also the feature of a compilation Complete singles Vol 1 a Double CD featuring many rarities and lesser known cuts. There are 3 great 45's this week of unreleased 70's material. Leroy Hutson 'Positive Forces' is a great previously unreleased cut from around 76/77 a superb modern soul cut. Willie tee...
New releases Ropeadope have three great new albums arriving this week. Terrace martin needs no introduction to us having produced one of the best albums of 2016 in Velvet Portraits. Terrace Returns with his band The Pollyseeds to produce what could well be one of the best albums of 2017, 'Sounds of Crenshaw vol 1' ft Robert Glasper, Rose Gold Released on 14th July. Trevor Lawrence Jr 'Relationships' is another great album on the label released 21st July. This master drummer has made what will be another album of the year great jazz and soul including a killer jazz funk...
There are some good releases this week. Mike City is a well known producer and his album of mainly uptempo soul/soulful house features many good contemporary vocalists incl Dwele, Carl Thomas, Faith Evans, Maysa and Lalah Hathaway amongst many others. This title is likely to be in limited supply so please order early to avoid disappointment. Joey Negro also has an album, of his productions 'Produced with love' which also features some remixes of classic tracks. Yet another producer Simon Law has an album this week 'Look To The Sky' ft wife Joanna law, Caron Wheeler, Chante Moore and maxi...
Josef Limberg 'Astral Progressions' Double Vinyl album has finally arrived and what a great album it is. If you liked Kamasi Washington 'The Epic' then this is for you, It features Kamasi, Terrace Martin, Bilal Georgia Anne Muldrow and many others, Brilliant stuff. Dave Liebman and Joe Lovano have an ice Coltrane tribute album and there is an instrumental of Lee Fields & the Expressions Special night LP. Two good 45's this week from Robert Montgomery (good double a sider on Soul Junction) and a new old school dancer from Benjamin & the Dreamdancers. There are some nice Reggae cd's/Lp's...
West London sound innovator Daz-I-Que now resides in Atlanta and has made a great album under his B B Boogie guise. Standing on the wall features Leroy Burgess , Vanessa Freeman, Joy Jones and many other top contributors and is well worthy of our album of the week. Imagination ft Leee John takes us on a trip into Retropia with his new album. There are good double CD anthologies from Angela Bofill, Labelle and Stanley Clarke on CD. Vinyl reissues from Brazilian Tim Maia, Sun Ra and Stevie Wonder and a couple of new 12" singles on the Far out...
After the last two massive weeks, there are only a few new releases this time Nikka Costa returns with an amazing album backed by an orchestra. Patti Labelle has recorded an album of Jazz covers, her first album in 10 years. We have a very limited supply of Cornell Carter's new album and there are good smooth jazz albums from Kayla Waters (kim's daughter), and Special EFX. Merry Clayton's classic Gimme Shelter album gets a limited edition White Opaque Vinyl issue. Josh Milan CDs We are expecting more copies of the Josh Milan 6.9.69 CD next week, our first batch sold...
It is another massive week for releases with great new and reissue albums and something for everybody. The long awaited brilliant Josh Milan 6.9.69 double CD is here in limited quantities at the moment so please order early as our first batch is likely to sell out very fast, more coming in a couple of weeks. There are also great albums from Moonchild and a new South East London band Ruby Rushton (in the style of Yussef Kamaal) out on both CD and LP. There are good new soul albums from Maysa, Jay King, James Day and Daptone gospel soul...
