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Album review Al B Sure! - Honey I'm Home
 | Al B Sure is back on the scene with a new album 'Honey i'm home' and will be released on june 23. The album contains 13 brand new 'romancing' tracks. All thirteen tracks are downtempo tracks. Two of them are covers. The album starts with the single "I love it (Papi Aye Aye Aye)", co-produced by his writing and producing partner Kyle West, is very tuneful, sexy and sounds if he was never been away. Vocals are beautiful, and contains nice analog synth sounds. One of the best tracks. Other great tracks are "Only you" and "4 Life!". "I'm glad" track #3 has also a nice bass line. "All I Wanna do" an urban track with vocoders. Sexy girl on the back! A Favourite one. Two slowtempo tracks "Dedicate My All" and "Bye the Way, By the Way" are assisted by an acoustic guitar. A nice synth sound walks as a melodie line through "Only You!", nice chords and vocals. The track "Whatcha Got?" is very urban, with strange bass line. Another favourite is track #12 "4Life!" the last track "Never Stop Loving You" is too much pop. The two covers are Stings 'Fragile' and Michael Jacksons "Lady in My Life". Pleasantly done with an urban, R&B twist but, for me, it remain covers. All and all an album for lovers of smooth R&B. You can listen to it on Hiddenbeach.com. |
Paris Ford - Chocolate Swirl
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Paris Ford, aka Pee Wee Ford in the 80s, started his career 1980 on Arthur Baker's record label Streetwise with the tune 'Be My Girl'. In 1981 he was asked by Jacques Fred Petrus to be the bass player for the funk formation 'B B and Q Band'. They had a huge hit with 'On The Beat'. See the album cover for a early picture of Ford the debut album by B B and Q Band. He also played the bass on most sampled track '7 minutes of funk' by Tyrone Thomas and The Whole Darn Family This track is sampled by: who not ;-) He toured and played bass for a lot off 80s artist like Rick James, Evelyn 'Champagne' King, New Edition, and Johnny Gill. He started his own record company Overlord Entertainment Group where he just released his Mega Maxi Single and Dance Anthem 'Chocolate Swirl'. This track features Kyon, DJ-Hype, Sheek Da Freak ans lost but not least 'James Robinson', former lead singer of the funk group 'Change'. This Single consist of 12 different mixes with or without Rap. The lyrics are inspiring and the music make u dance your ass off. For more information see http://www.myspace.com/parisford |
Al B Sure! is back with a brand new single
 | Al B Sure! is back and how. Soulandfunkmusic.com received last week his first single "I Love It (Papi-Aye-Aye-Aye)" from his forthcoming album "Honey i'm home" on Hiddenbeach recordings. The release of his new album wil be on June 23, 2009. His new track "I Love It (Papi-Aye-Aye-Aye)" is the first track of this album and is very tuneful, sexy and sounds if he was never been away. Vocals are beautiful, and contains nice analog synth sounds. The album consist of eleven other tracks. I can't wait to hear the rest of this album. Looking at the titles of the other tracks it already satisfy me ;-) You can listen to it on Hiddenbeach.com. |
CD review Peabo Bryson 'Missing You'
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Peabo Bryson is back on the soul scene. After 8 years of silence he finally recorded a new, his twentieth, album 'Missing You' and for the first time on Peak records. On this album he collaborate with less and well known artists. When I opened the envelope and read the back cover information I knew that this album would be great. The reason is Barry J. Eastmond, he produced mainly this album |
CD review Douyé - Journey
 | This debut CD of Nigerian Born Douye consist of eleven smoothfull, sensual jazzy soul tracks. The voice of Douye is very sensual comparable with Sade or Anita Baker. This album was released in 2008. Fly away is a lowtempo jazzy soul track with nice chords. 'On For You' is A 'Sade' type of song, mellow, smooth and good. If you like jazzy guitar licks then 'In Love With You' is a song for you. Smooth sound and the sensual voice of Douye does the rest. The title track of the CD 'Journey' is a real jazz tune. A little more uptempo as previous tracks is 'Still Hurting' sounds good but is not one of the best tracks on this CD. Mark Soulandfunkmusic,com |
Album review Lynne Fiddmont - Flow
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Lynne Fiddmont is not new in the music scene. She has worked as background singer for the greatest soul artists like Stevie Wonder, Carl Anderson, Patti Austin, Babyface, Norman Brown, Bill Withers and Whitney Houston. She also appeared on the soul scene in 1991 with Linsey , a husband-and-wife team consisting of keyboardist/songwriter Wayne Linsey and Lynne Fiddmont. The album they recorded was 'Perfect Love '. |
First Steps of Funkatized
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I just received a digital copy of the debut album of the Berlin based group Funkatized. It is released on march 15. It consist 14 funky, jazzy tracks. It's real funk on a modern beat. They used the real synths, vocoders etc. The tracks are mainly instrumental and it will be a digital release only, meaning it´s only available
at Itunes, Napster, and so on. it is something different than soul but pleasant to hear. For more information: Funkatized.com |
CD Sampler Jill Scott - Collaborations
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The new CD of Jill Scott is called Collaborations. The collaborators are nobody less than 'George Benson', 'Bilal', 'Chris Botti', 'Common', 'Kirk Franklin', 'The Isley Brothers', 'Sergio Mendes', 'Al Jarreau', 'Will Smith and others. You can imagine that this CD have different styles and sounds and it have. Jazz, Rap, R&B, Soul, Brazilian sound. |
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