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New releases and Pre-orders | 25th August

NEW RELEASES

There are some good new albums and reissues this week.

Kim Tibbs debut ‘Kim’  has been generating a lot of interest and is a very unusual album with the first half great contemporary Soul and second half real retro soul/Blue where Kim plays the organ and sings, an interestingly different album.
The Soul grenades have a nice retro Funk/Soul album on Cd and LP and another newcomer Decosta Boyce gives us his spin on Electrik Soul.
There are two good New jazz albums on Highnote from Russell Malone and Cyrus Chestnut.
On the Reissue Cd’s D’angelo’s 90’s classic ‘Brown Sugar’ for many the album that gave birth to the Neo soul movement has a new 2CD Deluxe Edition.
there are many classic albums on Funky Town grooves including first tinme on Cd for two Tyrone Davis albums, Phyllis Hyman,  Manhattans etc.  Most of these are available in a great value £9.99 each or 5 for £40 deal. You can see the full list of titles in the deal here.
My first desire records follow up the great harry becket release from last year with another unreleased 70’s BBC session from Dave Gold Big Band, great funky brassy big band jazz. Stevie Wonder’s classic ‘Songs in the key of life gets a welcome vinyl reissue.
Joey Negro’s remixed with love RSD release ‘Circles’ 12″ is finally available, a must have.  Also on 12″ Melodies int have the rare Maurice Moore and the Family Band.Expansion have a couple of reissue 45’s from Spyder Turner and Mystique, plus the dareel Bank classic 45 is back in stock for a short while.

PRE-ORDERS

Pre-order for September releases from Will Downing, Tony Allen, Hide & Seek (compiled by Foreign Exchange) , Kennedy Adminstration and more. see all the pre-order titles here.

STAFF PICKS

Make sure that you haven’t missed out on our current staff picks of the best albums of the year so far.
Jason – Leela James – Did it for love cd
Our two Voices of East Harlem LP”s/45 and the fantastic value 2 on 1 CD have been very well received by customers, radio and press, if you haven’t’ checked them yet check the video here.
We are delighted to offer an amazing deal on approx 80 CD titles on the Funky Town Grooves label. All of these selected titles will be £9.99 each with a 5 for £40 deal until Sunday 15th October.
There are some great 70’s and 80’s Soul titles included some of which have been hard to find on CD. The deal even includes a few new titles being released today! Some of these titles will be in limited supply in the deal. Whilst we have good stocks of most titles, due to the volume of titles there maybe be a 24-48 hr delay in shipping some orders. Shop the FTG deal here

VINYL

see all vinyl here

Albums
Check out this list of original Vinyl LP’s which are all on offer at £7 each or a bargain 5 for £25 deal until Monday 4th September.  All albums are in Ex or near Mint condition as individually graded, and whilst we do have a couple of copies of some,  most are one-off’s so please order early to avoid disappointment.  There are some classic albums included, and many in here to fill holes in your collection at low so it’s well worth a look.
12″ Singles
Check out this list of Original Vinyl 12″ singles which have recently arrived, there many hard to find titles plus some many classics, this sale ends on 31st August.
Our Summer Sale CD is is still available with over 300 titles at £6.99 each or 5 for £25 here.

Sony Vinyl Album reductions

Check out this list of Sony Music 180gm Vinyl LP’s available at reduced prices until 31st August.

Radio show

I hope that you enjoyed the show last Sunday, if you missed it you can catch it again on the podcast here. I hope that you can join me again this Sunday at 10am on Solar radio/sky 0129 and DAB for another Soul brother Selection.

Luxury soul weekender

We have some early bird passes for the Luxury soul weekender available at £69  plus booking on the phone on 020 8875 1018 until 31st August, £79 from 1st September.
Don’t forget to book for the fantastic Lindsey Webster/Michon Young/Miles Sanko/resolution 88 gig in September.
Have a great bank holiday weekend, we are open today and tomorrow 10-7 , Sunday 11-5 but closed on bank holiday Monday.
Laurence