soul/funk tracks
Track: Yasmin Lacey – Something my heart trusts
Out right now is ‘Something My Heart Trusts’, the new single from Yasmin Lacey, and the follow up to her recent single 90 Degrees. She’s one of the outstanding voices in British Jazz right now, and has received strong support from the likes of Gilles Peterson, Jamz Supernova, Tom Ravenscroft, Huey Morgan and Jamie Cullum, …
Track: Moses Mosima – Everything will be alright
Philadelphia singer-songwriter Moses Mosima has shared his new, self produced single, everything will be alright, and as he explains – it’s a reaction to all the negativity going on in the world at the monent. I felt compelled to record and write this song in response to the onslaught of negativity we are confronted with …
Track: Potatohead People – Do My Thing / Returning The Flavour
Vancouver duo Potatohead People, aka Nick Wisdom and Astrologica, herald the arrival of their album Nick & Astro’s Guide To The Galaxy, wout May 11th via Bastard Jazz, with a 7″ comprising of two of the albums tracks – Do My Thing and Returning the Flavour. It sees them teaming up again with Illa J, …
Track: The Go! Team – The Only Thing New is U Finding Out About it, plus summer tour dates
The Go! Team have shared “The Only Thing New Is U Finding Out About It”, a brand new single following on from their acclaimed new album SEMICIRCLE (out now on Memphis Industries). Band leader Ian Parton explains the influences behind the upbeat and mostly instrumental track: “The Only Thing New Is U Finding Out About …
EP: Mats Wawa – Scuzz
Norwegian five piece Mats Wawa are preparing for the release of their debut EP, ‘Scuzz’ which is out tomorrow (23rd February) via Black Pop Records. They’ve been causing something of a stir in recent times, after Mats Wang was booked to play at the Trondheim Calling Festival in 2015 and formed a band to help …
Track: Jachary – Posse Cut #1
Jachary, aka singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Zachary Levine-Caleb, has released his new track ‘Posse Cut #1’, so called because of the collaborative and loose nature of it, which saw no less than 13 guest artists including rappers, vocalists and horn players jump on the trackdown at lovelove studios where it was recorded. As with Jachary’s …
See: Glen Hansard reveals new video for Roll on Slow, plus European Tour Dates
Sometime Frames and Swell Seasons man Glen Hansard has returned with a new album, Between Two Shores, which dropped last Friday (January 19th) on Anti-. From it he’s revealed a new video for the albums opening track ‘Roll on Slow’. It’s a mixup of folk rock and brass heavy soul, akin in a way to …
Track: Nightmares on Wax – Deep Shadows
Soul aficionados might recognise the name of the latest track to be released ahead of Nightmares on Wax’s Shape to the Future album. And they’d be right to, its a cover of the 1967 Little Ann cut, and it features up and coming London soul singer Sadie Walker. Of the track, Nightmares on Wax mainman …
Track: Jack Grace – Row Me Home
If you need some rather beautiful electronic soul to brighten your day, then Row Me Home, the new track from Australian songwriter Jack Grace will probably float your boat. Its completely stripped down, with this vaguely gospel feel about it shrouded in these almost eerie wisps of electronica. It comes on the back of his …
Track: Tameca Jones – Sandman
After a (at least artistic) lifetime writing songs and performing covers across her native Texas, Austin’s Tameca Jones has stepped up to the plate – duetting with Gary Clark Jr on his latest long player The Story of Sonny Boy Slim, and is about to release an EP of her own. Titled naked, its due …