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New releases and pre-orders 22nd of March 2019

Bobby Sparks II has produced a great album that reminds me of the kind of record George Duke may have made back in the day, a mixture of Funky Jazz, P-Funk and Soul (feat Frank McComb and Isaiah Sharkey) mixed with a little craziness and a lot of energy !, well worth checking out.
Christian Scott returns with another deep Jazz journey ‘Ancestral Recall’. Snarky Puppy ‘Immigrance’ is now in on LP and well as CD, and we have a few vinyl copies back in stock of the Seed Ensemble ‘Driftglass’ (CD delayed to April due to manufacturing issue). There are interesting albums from Khruangbin and Dexter Story. Down to the Bone’s first 3 albums are now available again with bonus cuts on 3 classic albums.
There are strong reissues from Roy Ayers, Charles Tolliver all stars (ft Herbie, Gary Bartz etc), a very limited rarity from Afro Blue Persuasion, Aretha’s first and reggae/Dub legend from Count Ossie.

Great singles this week from David Ruffin, incl a few very limited DJ Copy issues, new Soul 45’s from Alexis Evans and Irene Nonis and two great British Jazz funk 12’s originally from the Elite label from Atmosfear and Powerline.

Pre-order

Pre-order for next week for delayed Chelsea Wilson, Marvin Gaye LP (CD out end of April), and the week after for Ruby Rushton, Lee Fields and more. See all the pre-order titles here.

Saturday 13th April is record store day and I hope that you can join us to celebrate the day and 25 years since the shop opened in Putney. The complete UK list can be seen here. We have also produced a page showing the main Soul , Jazz and Reggae titles that we expect to have. We will be loading the titles on the site for viewing over the next couple of weeks.

We are releasing a very special 45 with in demand tracks from Sharon Ridley and Ralph Graham from the Sussex label.

Albums and singles of the Month – March/April

The best albums and singles of the month feature for March and April can be viewed here – loads of great new essential releases here

Don’t miss out on the bargains in our Winter Vinyl Sale , Winter CD sale and Soul Brother/Expansion/Outta Sight Cd sale which all end on 1st April. Watch out for some more additions to these next week.

Collector’s vinyl

The latest batch of Original Vinyl Soul LP’s includes some classic albums mostly in fantastic condition (as individually graded), which you can view here. Previous titles from the same collection are listed here, watch out for more next week

Radio show

I hope that you enjoyed the show last week, if you missed it you can catch it on the Podcast here.
I hope that you can join me again this Sunday at 10am on Solar radio/sky0129, DAB+, or the solar app for another Soul Brother Selection.

Don’t forget that Nadine Lee is at the Pizza Express Kings Rd in April.

Have a great weekend

Laurence