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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 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 '. |
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. |
CD Sampler Keite Young - The Rise and Fall of Keith Young
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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 |
CD Sampler Onitsha - Church Girl
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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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