New releases What a great week for releases not only in quantity but the quality is very high this week. Atlanta soul singer Rhonda Thomas has made what i believe will be one of the Soul albums of the year in 'Vinyl Daze', amazing album. There are also really strong albums from Kenya, Tristan and Carmen Rodgers. D'Angelo Black Messiah comes out of vinyl at last. There are good jazz albums from Bill Dickens, Fresh cut Orchestra, Marc Cary and Joey Sommerville, and a couple of Soulful house gems from Papa records and DJ Spinna. Reissues There are welcome reissues...
It's a quiet week for new releases this week but there are some good new Jazz albums from Emily Saunders and Matt Wates Sextet, a few reissues and a really good remix 45 from Lisa Stansfield. Watch out for some killer releases next week and a new I hope that you enjoyed the show on Sunday, if you missed it ,you can catch it again here. I hope you can join me on Sunday at 10am for another Soul Brother Selection on Solar radio /sky 0129. Keep 18th April in your diary as it is Record Store Day and it's...
New releases There are some strong new releases this week. Vick Lavender may not be a name that you are too familiar with, but that's about to change as his excellent new album 'The Architect' is probably the best Soulful house album we have had for sometime. He mixes elements of Soul, Jazz and Soulful house grooves together that brings Josh Milan to mind. Soulpersona come up with another good new album featuring Princess Freesia and Jocelyn Brown. Reel People music score again with he Layabouts ft Portia Monique, Gina Carey makes her best album in a while with the...
New Releases Multi instrumentalist and producer Nick Van Gelder teams up with UK vocalist and songwriter Suelene Fleming to take us to 'Loveland' perfect timing for Valentines Day, one of the best groove oriented Soul albums we have heard for a while. ***You can meet Nick and Suelene at Soul Brother records store on Saturday 28th February 1pm when they will be signing copies of the CD*** Also check good new albums from Meeco featuring Yahzarah and Jean Baylor amongst others, and from Brazilian legend Joyce Moreno. Reissues There are some great re-issues this week from Idris Muhammad whose 'Turn...
New releases There is an amazing release this week from Cecilia Stalin and Khari Cabral Simmons 'The Story of Love' , 4 four glorious tracks of quality music, check the versions of Seawind's 'He Loves You' and 'Sunny Day'. Also a new album from soulstress Carol Riddick and Diana Krall. "015 has started with a flourish of great new albums you can see our albums of the month for February here. Reissues There are some great reissues this week Milton Wright's Miami soul classic 'Friends and Buddies' gets an extended version Cd release with the original raw soul recordings, which...
New Releases It's another good week for new releases. We have had to wait nearly 10 years since The Rebirth reminded us of what a great live band can do in the studio with their debut 'This Journey's in'. Well they are back with another strong album 'Being Thru the eyes of a child' which is arriving today. There are also good albums from Neo-Soul artist Maryanne Ito, Italian Jazz-Funksters Camera Soul, Astrid Jones and the Blueflaps, with Jazz from Rongetz (France) and On Impulse (Holland)and home grown P-Funk from Wonderlush. After last weeks bag of goodies, 2015 has to...
New releases It's the best week for releases so far this year with great new albums from Phil Perry, Charlie Wilson and Marion Meadows. There is an amazing acoustic 7 track EP/album from Ledisi which really allows us to appreciate the beauty of her great voice.A new name to us Jay Nemor from Sweden has a really nice album in the style of and reminds us of Gil Scott Heron. Funkadelic release their first album in 33 years and George Clinton doesn't do things by half's it's a 3CD set featuring Bootsy, Fred Wesley, Bernie Worrell etc and even Sly...
New releases Only one new album this week, a gritty Gospel influenced soul album from Curtis Harding. Loads of great reissues with Jackie Moore's Complete Atlantic recordings including many un-issued tracks being the highlight. There are two more James Brown sets in the high resolution (96Khz 24 Bit) in mini LP card sleeves and some great Jazz titles. The rare early Brazilian album Tam Tam Tam is now on LP and CD. We are delighted to offer a limited quantity of the fantastic JB's album 'Food For Thought' pressed on 150gm vinyl with bonus Purple 45 and Poster at a...
Happy New Year - new arrivals! I'd like to wish a Happy new year to everybody. Here are the releases for this first week of 2015. First up we have the Luxury Soul 2015 a great 3CD set featuring many new tracks on CD for the first time. Marc Staggers has a new album which is one of his best, his voice really reminds me of the great late Luther Vandross. Gregory Porter's Liquid Spirit CD is now issued in another Deluxe version with extra tracks including duets with Laura Mvulu and Jamie Cullum and a 5 track DVD, we...
I would like to wish all our customers and friends a very happy new year, and to thank you for your continued support throughout the year. 2014 was a good year for our music, there were a lot of good Soul and Jazz albums and an encouraging sign of records with well written songs and real instrumentation Reissues can by the bucket load but there were some cracking titles out on CD for the first time. We also saw a trend towards Vinyl releases with lots of good 45 titles and reissue LP's. You can view our see our selection...
