This debut album from Opensouls has been five years in the making, with main-man Ota (aka Jeremy Toy) starting the process back in 2001 on his trusty MPC2000. He then enlisted the help of the extended Opensouls family to create this sumptuous and soulful album. And what an extended family it is,...
Features the singles ‘Stornoway’, ‘Can You Play Me A Song?’ and ‘Lady Sun (feat. Hollie Cook)’. Skinshape (aka Will Dorey) releases his ninth studio album titled Another Side Of Skinshape on 27th September via Lewis Recordings. As the album title suggests, Dorey’s latest body of work is somewhat...
Soul Jazz Records’ new Miami Sound 2 is a superlative collection of 70s soul, funk, disco and boogie featuring tracks from legendary artists such as Betty Wright, Timmy Thomas, Gwen McRae, Milton Wright, T-Connection and many more, all released on the mighty TK Records musical empire based in...
Ray Charles reshaped the entire landscape of American music. Obliterating barriers of genre, race, and audience, Modern Sounds In Country & Western Music became the first country album to sell over a million copies, single-handedly tranforming the once-niche genre into a mainstream phenomenon....
Grammy® Lifetime Achievement Award recipients and Rock & Roll and Gospel Hall of Fame inductees, The Staple Singers are an American musical treasure. In the ’50s they were among the greatest of the post-war gospel groups. The ’60s found them recording for a variety of labels like Vee-Jay,...
Admittedly, I'm not a great salesperson when it comes to running our little label. I do my best not to give into hyperbole or build something up too intensely if someone has not heard a new artist yet. I prefer to simply present the music and let the listener decide how they feel about it. However,...
Produced by Rolling Stones Drummer, Steve Jordan, this is his third record with Bettye LaVette. Her recent success with a sample on an Odesza single has brought her deep soulful voice to a new and young audience. The album is made up of Randall Bramlett covers that Bettye's sultry vocal style...
From Cape Town to Cairo, and now to fans, stages and screens around the world, PJ Morton shares his newest album, fully made in the motherland. Cape Town to Cairo is a collection of songs that he created in 30 days throughout 4 countries in Africa — South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and Egypt. Described...
Aretha Franklin, the incomparable “Queen of Soul,” will release her highly anticipated brand new studio album, ‘Aretha Franklin Sings The Great Diva Classics’ via RCA Records and Sony Music. The album features the new lead single, Adele's “Rolling In The Deep (The Aretha Version).” Aretha's...
Originally released in 1969 on Canyon, this record is now considered by many to be the greatest deep soul album of all time. Our CD Digipack features a booklet with new liner notes by producer Swamp Dogg (the new liner notes will be available on line for download), as well as recently unearthed...
Almost 10 years ago, Light In The Attic and DJ Supreme La Rock compiled the first ever set of vintage Pacific Northwest soul on Wheedle’s Groove: Seattle’s Finest In Funk & Soul 1965–75 featuring such rare sides as “I Just Want To Be (Like Myself)” by legendary funk outfit Robbie Hill’s Family...
Bilal is an artist who needs little introduction to fans of neo soul, and his ever growing following must surely be among the most loyal and supportive in the scene. To know Bilal is to love him, so ever since his new album was announced on npr. com with a taste of first single ‘Satellites’,...
All three made the US Top 100 Albums chart with hit singles ‘Burn Rubber On Me’, ‘Oops Up Side Your Head’ (originally called ‘I Don’t Believe You Want To Get Up And Dance (Oops!) ’ on ‘The Gap Band II’) and ‘Yearning For Your Love’ coming fromthem The R&B funk band’s first three albums for Mercury...
Doug Hream Blunt learnt to play music at the age of 35, by taking an evening class in the Golden Gate neighborhood of San Francisco in the late 1980s. The class was organized by a local high school music teacher and his wife, and held in a small home-built studio of their garage. In the years to...
With their new album ‘Rhapsody,’ the extraordinary vocalists Ifedayo Gatling, Dennis Bailey, and George Marage are able to fully explore the entire range of music that influenced them. The follow-up to their acclaimed 2021 release 'Look Up!’, the record is a dive into a lesser-known but hugely...
This box set is a companion piece to the 8CD set From Sacred To Secular: A Soul Awakening, which traced the history of soul music from its earliest antecedents in 1927 right up to the first true soul records released in 1962. This selection of CDs continues the story from 1962 up to the end of the...
Following 2012's fourth volume that celebrated the existential work of Tim Maia, here we find Luaka Bop exploring the legacy of William Onyeabor. A high chief and Kenyan diplomat who allegedly refuses to discuss his music, he self-released eight albums in the 70s and 80s and these are some of the...
Top Dawg Entertainment/RCA Records' recording artist SZA announces her highly anticipated album, ‘CTRL!’. The recent release of the ‘Love Galore’ single and video were met with rave reviews from fans and critics alike, including Pitchfork, Stereogum, Billboard, Vibe and more. The Fader calls the...
Commonwealth, The Edge Of Daybreak’s membership wrote and recorded Eyes Of Love while serving out sentences of six to sixty years. Set to tape inside Powhatan Correctional Center on the outskirts of Richmond, Virginia, these intimate 1979 sessions unlock the prison gates and peer into a collective...
