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Fresh, new and innovative, 3 Central blazes onto the music scene with their debut CD "A Feelin' Inside". This Smooth Jazz/Inspirational Trio has one of the hottest new sounds in Contemporary Jazz and Gospel.
Their brand new CD and live performances offer a powerful exchange of positive energy between musicians. This is quite rare considering that bands are no longer the norm in today's modern music, where technology inspires solo efforts. Kudos to the solo artists for making great music, but how many notable bands can you name today? That is why 3 Central is a pleasure to hear as their recordings provide a unified sound with live instrumentation. Acoustic drums in particular, really bring to life the energy and feel of this band's recordings. 3 Central is definitely one to watch! |
 | Funky Town Grooves just released a great 80s re-issue of the cool notes with the album "Have A Good Forever". The Cool Notes from south London were a popular UK R&B act during the mid-eighties and they had several hits of which the most famous of course is 'Spend The Night'. |
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The radio sampler of Onitsha's album Church Girl is promising. The track 'He Is' is a very funky song. It starts with a funky bass followed by the vocals of Onitsha. You can't sit still. She sings about the lord. A short bio of Onitsha. Onitsha La’Quis Shaw born in Beverly Hills, California, on July 16, 1980. She started attending West Angeles COGIC (Church Of God In Christ) in Los Angeles. Singing for family and friends turned into singing for the Lord. She became a part of the Angelic Children’s Choir, under the direction of Ruth Schofield. Her first solo with the Angelic Choir came quickly. A few years later the choir went on to do an album, sing on a television special with Tevin Campbell at Disneyland. For more info www.hiddenbeach.com |
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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 |
 | 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 |
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"Motown" does Philly. Philly does "Motown". Philadelphia producer Phil Hurt, who has 11 gold and platinum records, is releasing “A Soulful Tale of Two Cities.”
The concept is simple. Let the Motown stars record the Philadelphia classic soul jams. Have the troops from the Philadelphia International school record some Motor City tracks. |
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This week i recieved the album "Beyond Comprehension" of the American Soul and Gospel Singer Freddie Lee for review. This album was original released in 2008. But Freddie has been making waves on the UK soul scene recently with his debut album. Next month he will be featured in Blues and Soul Magazine and Soul Survivors Magazine after hitting No.12 in the Solar Radio album charts. Music from the album is currently playing on all BBC regionals stations, Solar Radio, Starpoint Radio, Newstyle Radio FM. |
 | Funky Town Grooves just released a great 80s re-issue of th dutch formation Mai Tai. The band was formed in 1983 when successful Dutch record producers Eric Van Tijn and Jochem Fluitsma brought together three former backing-singers Jetty Wheels, Mildred Douglas and Caroline De Windt. |
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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 |
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SAFM received Keite Youngs album Sampler of his forthcoming album 'the rise and fall of Keite Young' consists his new single 'Pray', gospel, soul oriented song with nice organs. Steve Harvey produced 'Thinkuboutmi'. That song is written by Keite himself, Steve Harvery and Bobby Watson. 'E.N.S' is a low tempo deep soul, gospel song with very nice background vocals. The track 'Shine' sounds good but is to short for review. But nevertheless Keite Youngs voice and music are worth too listen to. For more info www.hiddenbeach.com |
 | 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. |
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If you like 70s jazz-funk, funk, than this cd 'Hear It Is' from Bulk is a must have. If you like the music of blaxplotation movies, then this is it. The sound is unbelievable, it's the seventies, lot's of wah wah, Isaac Hayes sounds, superb. Bulk recorded this album during a live webcast performance at Ex'pression in Emeryvill, CA in the spring of 2009. There were no second takes or overdubbing sessions. Bulk started a few years ago at John Patricks in Alameda and now headlines Saturday nights at the Boom Boom Room in San Francisco. These guys keep the funk alive! Remember this is live recorded. You can listen buy this CD at CDBABY. The bulk website. |
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