The much anticipated Luxury Soul series is back for 2021 with Luxury Soul Family, and again we have another generous offering of 35 indie soul gems including cuts by Myles Sanko, Joe Leavy, Mama’s Gun Citrus Sun and Agape Soul. The compilation mines a groove of never-before on CD or vinyl as well as popular and more underground cuts from recent times. Kloud 9, Incognito and Tristan will be familiar names but more obscure acts such as Strike One, True Music Group and Sandra Mae-Lux will be new to many. Another solid offering that will sit alongside previous volumes as...
The much anticipated Luxury Soul series is back for 2021 with Luxury Soul Family, and again we have another generous offering of 35 indie soul gems including cuts by Myles Sanko, Joe Leavy, Mama's Gun Citrus Sun and Agape Soul. The compilation mines a groove of never-before on CD or vinyl as well as popular and more underground cuts from recent times. Kloud 9, Incognito and Tristan will be familiar names but more obscure acts such as Strike One, True Music Group and Sandra Mae-Lux will be new to many. Another solid offering that will sit alongside previous volumes as...
TATIANA LADY MAY MAYFIELD – THE NEXT CHAPTER CD Six years after her highly acclaimed ‘Portrait Of Lady May’ album was released Tatiana Ladymay Mayfield returns with ‘The Next Chapter’ and the soul jazz fusion with those sweet strong vocals is back in full effect. The irresistible foottapping groove of ‘I Want More’, the laid back jazzy washes of ‘Me And You’ and the organic, soaring feel of ‘Overflow’ really kick the set off well. ‘Insomnia’ has an emphatic, building quality and again straddles soul and jazz perfectly with her talented band laying down a tight groove, the acapella ‘Starting...
Sixth album for one-time Was (Not Was) backing singer Kathy Koskins ‘Uncovered Soul’ was produced by Kamua Kenyatta of Gregory Porter fame and includes luminaries such as Amp Fiddler and Ed Motta among this Detroit native’s musical collaborator’s. The vibe is very much sophisticated old-school soul with a modern touch reinforced by the fact that all but four tracks are covers of the likes of Bill Withers, Curtis Mayfield and The Neville Brothers. The slick jazzy soul of ‘Don’t Get Me Started’ is reminiscent of Tristan, ‘Voodoo’ is a slinky blues inflected swayer while the lush ‘A To B’ is...
The Great value Luxury Soul box set once again combines quality new, current and revival with 35 independent soul tracks across 3 Cds. Tracks by Will Wheaton, Marcus Anderson, Chris Jasper and The Wanda featuring Chaka Khan and Beres Hammond, Sand ir Piers featuring Frank McComb among those previously download only. Also includes Myles Sanko ‘Forget me Not’, Solutions’ Thankful’ , Lina ‘Who to love’ and Tristan ft Heston ‘Rising to the top’.
Brand new collaboration between UK stalwart Sulene Fleming and Dimitris Dimopoulos ‘Sparkle’ is a jazz funk inflected soul gem that sparkles from the off. Think old school arrangements and production with a modern pedigree coupled with strong playing (not to mention a guest contribution from Jeff Lorber on the infectious ‘Electric Love’) and you have a bright, energetic album of solid grooves. Fans of Tristan will find a lot here to enjoy buy the appeal reaches further – slick, irresistible b-lines, shimmering keys and Sulene’s strong, breathy vocals work well both with uptempo cuts like ‘Sparkle’, ‘Funky Inspiration’ and ‘Lets...
Terrace Martin presents his group The Pollyseeds harnessing the talents of many great musicians including Robert Glasper, Kamasi Washington, Trevor Lawrence jr and many others to make an outstanding Jazz and Soul album, full of hypnotic vocal and instrumental tracks , the soundtrack to the summer of '17. UK artist Terri Shaltiel has made a very interesting 7 track EP/CD of Funky/Bluesy Soul well worth a listen and Irene Rene has a really nice quality Soul album due in tomorrow. There are a few new releases on the Dutch Isole label plus a great 10" single from Zara McFarlane 'All Africa'....
As the name suggests, this album documents Dutch masters Tristan’s live concert performance at “Club De Pul” and features some of their best known works from their two albums so far. ‘Keep On’, ‘Moontune’, the pulsating ‘Lifestyle’, the classic throwback of ‘Riverflow’, the Chaka/Rufus sounding ‘Let me Breathe’ and the less frantic ‘New Beginning’ serve to highlight what a tight band they are live, how strong Evelyn Kallansee’s voice is and what a great set of tunes they have in their repertoire. You really get the feel for the performances here. Superb stuff.
NEW RELEASES Outta Sight records have compiled what is quite possibly the best so far in their Modern Soul compilation series with Soul on the Realside Vol 7, featuring 20 classic tracks mainly from the 70's , everyone a winner. The legendary Loma label from the late 60's is also the feature of a compilation Complete singles Vol 1 a Double CD featuring many rarities and lesser known cuts. There are 3 great 45's this week of unreleased 70's material. Leroy Hutson 'Positive Forces' is a great previously unreleased cut from around 76/77 a superb modern soul cut. Willie tee...
New releases Ropeadope have three great new albums arriving this week. Terrace martin needs no introduction to us having produced one of the best albums of 2016 in Velvet Portraits. Terrace Returns with his band The Pollyseeds to produce what could well be one of the best albums of 2017, 'Sounds of Crenshaw vol 1' ft Robert Glasper, Rose Gold Released on 14th July. Trevor Lawrence Jr 'Relationships' is another great album on the label released 21st July. This master drummer has made what will be another album of the year great jazz and soul including a killer jazz funk...
