Looner Soul Sessions (2019)

(Sunset Blvd Records) 22 Tracks - Digisleeve - Len Fico and Bill Dahl dug up 22 beautiful R&B soul numbers here. Jewels from Aaron Neville's collaboration with Allen Toussaint, 1966-1977, directly from the New Orleans Crucible!

"Stunning collection of deep soul and heavyweight funk from BETTY HARRIS. 17 songs written and produced by ALLEN TOUSSAINT and featuring THE METERS, all originally recorded in New Orleans between 1964-69."

Sweet Soul Sensation: 20 Soul Classics contains the definitive Artists & Soul, R&B, Funk. The Best hits from Rufus Thomas & Carla Thomas, Lesley Gore, The California Poppy Pickers and many more.

Expansion's most successful and longest running compilation series returns with it's 2019 collection. It's the 20th edition. The concept remains, the tracks better than ever, fifteen must-have modern soul room gems taken from the year's biggest dance floor spins and new releases on the soul scene. Tracks here have topped UK soul charts including many that have not been available in all formats. Once again, attention is paid to the 'flow' of the 15 gems chosen here from uplifting new soul, shuffling boogie beats, rare groove/80s revival sounds, Brit soul, and R&B played at modern soul events. Participants this year include Lukas Setto with a signature song for 2019 for the first time here on CD and LP alongside other new artists Laville (new signing to Acid Jazz), DCR, The Terri Green Project, SolatiMusic. New music too from Shaila Prospere (first time CD/vinyl), Tre Williams, veteran artists Angie Stone (first time on vinyl), Glenn Jones (also first time on CD/vinyl ahead of appearance at January 2020's Luxury Soul Weekender), Rockie Robbins and Raheem Devaughn. There's a superb new cover of the Inner Life track "Make It Last Forever" from Steal Vybe, a 70s revival tune from Steve 'Doc' Willoughby.

Northern soul is a music and dance movement that emerged in Northern England and the English Midlands in the late 1960s from the British mod scene, based on a particular style of black American soul music, especially from the mid-1960s, with a heavy beat and fast tempo (100 bpm and above).

Des températures proches de zéro, des journées raccourcies et seulement quelques heures de soleil par jour, il y a beaucoup à faire pour braver un hiver parfois déprimant. Le remède le plus prometteur contre le froid et la morosité est la musique, ce que Winter Sessions 2019 de Milk & Sugar nous apporte juste à temps. La compilation présente sur deux CD une sélection de ce que la scène de la musique électronique fait de mieux en ce moment. Les compilations Winter Session s de Milk & Sugar ont fait leurs preuves, et l’édition de 2019 réunit des grands noms, des jeunes talents et des remixes inédits, pour un total de 31 titres captivants.

An acoustic jazz trio and a multiple Grammy-winning mastering engineer who has plied his deft touch to records by Alessia Cara, Jay-Z, Justin Bieber, Khalid and others totaling over 100 million in album sales may seem like strange bedfellows at first. But keyboardist Philippe Saisse has a history with Colin Leonarddating back a few years and now calls upon him to master all his recording projects. Leonard had been itching to get into a vinyl release after having recently acquired a lathe cutting machine that presses vinyl albums thus Saisse’s idea to revisit his trio’s 2006 release, “The Body and Soul Sessions,” instantly intrigued Leonard. The remastered album drops June 21 for the first time on vinyl and will also be available as a CD and in digital form.

Nao Yoshioka was preparing to capitalize off the positive reception of her 2019 album Undeniable, a record that included the song “Got Me,” when 2020 happened. The pandemic year nixed her plans for a world tour to promote Undeniable. That clearly had to be a disappointment for an artist who brings her sound and story as a Japanese singer/songwriter making waves in the R&B world.