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 funky ‘The Soul singer’ and Brian Simpson’s ‘Out of a dream’ is smooth jazz of the highest class.
Reissues
Good re-issue CD’s from The Manhattans featuring un-issued cuts, Wyndchymes and several New Orleans soul artist comps from the Charly label. The Mike Maurro mixes 3CD set on Harmless brings some classic 70’s tracks up to date with new remixes.
Pre-orders
Pre-order now for Kenya and Tristan cds and Neo ‘Your Smile‘ 7″ arriving next week, and we will ship the day they arrive.
Next Sat 28th Feb Nick Van Gelder and Sulene Fleming will be at Soul Brother records store signing copies of their excellent new album ‘Loveland’. I hope that you can make it, but if you can’t but would like signed copy you can pre-order a copy here.
Vinyl
For Vinyl collectors there is a good reissue of Milton Wright’s classic ‘Keep it up’ on 45, a repress of Flowers ‘For Real’ and a 10″ from Expansion featuring Tom Browne’s ‘Brighter tomorrow and a new version from Diplomats of Soul back to back.
Collector’s Vinyl
Original Vinyl collectors check out these new Soul and Funk LP arrivals, and these Original 45’s which include some hard to find Original UK label Motown cuts, and some great 60’s ,70’s and 80’s Soul and Funk. If you order 4 titles from the 45s list you can pick a 5th one for FREE, The cart will automatically deduct the amount of the lowest priced 45 in the deal. Also please put in your diary Saturday 18th April is Record Store Day and we have some great releases on our own label for the day that you won’t want to miss, more details nearer the time.
have a great weekend
Laurence
