Richard Spaven 5ive was intended as a record store day release but has been issued this week as a limited edition clear vinyl LP, anything on Jazz refreshed sells out quickly so don’t sleep on this one.
Lonnie Smith’s recent album ‘All in my mind’ comes out as a Blue Note tone poet LP (the Cd is in our £9.99 Cd sale). Another 60’s Donald Byrd Soul-Jazz Blue Note classic album ‘Cat walk’ is issued on Vinyl. Athens of the North have 2 really good in demand 45’s out this week. We have a warehouse find of few copies of Azymuth out of print jazz-funk classic ‘Light as a feather’ on CD and there is some early Sly Stone material on CD.
PRE-ORDER
Pre-order for next week Lonnie Liston Smith classic ‘Expansions’ LP and there is a great Gary Bartz and Maisha LP and Tenderlonious plays Tubby Hayes album out later in May. See all the pre-order titles here.
BEST SELLERS
Check out the best selling albums and singles this week at this link
WE ARE NOW MAIL ORDER ONLY UNTIL RESTRICTIONS ARE LIFTED
As you may know the shop is now closed for walk in business to conform with the Government Covid19 regulations but we are still operating mail order services, and will do as long as we are able to. Future release dates are likely to be changeable as product supply especially from USA and Europe become harder to source due to flight restrictions.
I’d like to thank all our existing and new customers for placing orders and keeping us going through these dark times. We have introduced a new featured album of the day which you will receive each morning and give you something fresh to listen to, hopefully you will enjoy this and want to add some of the albums to your collection.
We can now offer a limited shop collect service again, please order online and pick up your records/cds at the door keeping our social distance by appointment.
Album of the day
We have been nominating an album of the day each day through lockdown to help keep your spirits up. There are some truly great new and classic albums featured which you can see here.
Watch out for more next week. Thanks for the great feedback that you have given to this feature.
You can find today’s Album of The Day below.
POSTAL DELAYS
We are aware that some deliveries are taking longer than usual – from what we hear this is due to a mix of Royal Mail staff shortages and industrial action. Please bear with us – these are factors that are out of our hands. The backlog of post appears to be clearing and parcels sent this week have been arriving in about 48 hours, some even the next day
We are also running on the absolute minimum of staff so order turnaround times may also be affected for more complicated orders. Thanks for your understanding.
RSD 20
Record Store Day has now been postponed again and will now take place on three days , 29th August, 26th September and 24th October. The lists of which titles will be each day will be published on 1st June. Hopefully by that time we will be able to invite you to the shop , but keeping social distance and on-line from 6pm on each day for what titles are still available.
We are now back in stock of the majority of Bill Withers Lps and CDs which you can see in our feature here. Don’t forget to pre-order the fantastic 9cd set of his complete albums out on 15th May.
Deals, sales and features
We have added many more titles to our £9.99 Cd sale so there are now 100 Recent and classic soul and jazz albums included. It now includes many of last year’s best albums incl Phillip Bailey, Ruby Rushton and the recent Gil Scott Heron re-imagining project along with some classic Soul Brother releases.
There are some real bargains to be had in our 5 for £25 CD sale with many great albums on Soul Brother, Expansion and Outta sight labels reduced to £6.99 each or 5 for £25 plus some recent additions classics from Al Green, Chaka Khan , Oneness of Juju etc.
There are many classic albums in our £14.99 Lp sale – watch out for some additions next week.
Also see some classic recommended albums by genre in our Fill the Gap campaign.
We have added some more classic Blue Note Lps to our feature so there are now over 100 titles in the stock in the feature.
You can find everything in one place at the link below or here
Collector’s vinyl
Recent original Vinyl Soul and Jazz LP arrivals can be seen here, there are some great collectors items still available.
Recent Original vinyl 12″ singles and Original vinyl 45’s here.
The massive range of Outta Sight Modern and Northern Soul 45’s can be seen here.
Our current best selling albums and singles can be seen here.
Yazmin Lacey – Morning Matters | Album of the day 1st May 2020
UK soulstress Yazmin Lacey returns with the third EP in her trilogy of releases following ‘Black Moon’ and ‘When The Sun Dips 90 Degrees’. Lacey describes this set as a collection of tunes centered around healing and includes contributions from a dazzling array of talent: Femi Koleoso and Ife Ogunjobi of Ezra Collective on drums and trumpet respectively, celebrated pianist Sarah Tandy on keys, and jazz protege Moses Boyd on drums and production. The cuts here are deeply personal with a lazy, laid back Badu-like calm to them, even if the subject matter is sometimes fraught. The gorgeous jazzy soul of ‘Morning Matters’ and the more jaunty ‘Lately’ (interlude) have a folky soul quality to them, the heavier ‘Morning Sunrise’ has a fuller production and a harder drive to it while the empowering ‘Not Today Mate’ wraps things up in emphatic fashion. Dial back to the opening track for a dreamy, slowly unfurling gem that speaks of being yourself, owning your own sh*t and running the day! Superb offering yet again. Don’t miss this.
LP
£16.99Out of Stock
Listen to tracks
Own Your Own
Morning Matters
Lately (Interlude)
Morning Sunrise
Not Today Mate
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Radio Show
Our usual spot on Solar will be suspended for the time being as we practise responsible social distancing by not putting ourselves or others at risk, both by travelling to the studio and also being in the studio. We think that the health of ourselves and others while also protecting the NHS is important at this time.
We are however going to continue to bring you the best weekly releases and collector’s pieces with a weekly two-hour mix that you can find on our Mixcloud. At present we don’t have the facility to record voiceovers, but hopefully you can still enjoy the music.
Find the latest show here.
Laurence and Jason
