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APRIL HILL LOVE 360 CD £11.95
A new star is born. Atlanta's April has one of those distinctive classic soul voice's that remind you of greats like Randy Crawford, Candi Staton and Esther Phillips in places, but with the contemporary sassyness of Jill or Erykah. This is a killer album produced by Marlon Saunders with great songs, lyrics and real instruments. 'The Search' is a great soulful dancer with a great B line and the horn backed' No More Tears' could become a weekender anthem. 'Feeling You' , 'I Can't Stop Loving You' and 'Happier With Her' are classic soul ballads. 'I Wanna Be Free' , 'You Got Me' and 'Manipulation' are contemporary hard hitting hypnotic mid tempo grooves that really grow on you. This album will appeal to all generations of soul fans and is a strong contender for album of the year.

LEROY BURGESS - THROWBACK: HARLEM 79-83
Great album ft 12 unreleased tracks from the legendary singer/songwriter/producer recorded in the early 80's. Some are his orignal versions of tracks he wrote for others like 'Its So Easy (You Can Do It)', 'Fly Girl' , 'In The Moment' and 'Youre my Number One', which all stand up well against the released versions because of Leroy's soulful voice is so good. Of the seven new songs the best are the classic Burgess Boogie tracks like 'Scandal', 'Midnight in The Streets', 'Under Da radar' and 'Hold Up' and the soulful 'Keepin On' with its jazzy keyboard touches. The soulful mid tempo 'All Into You' also grooves nicely and the live cover of the Isley's 'Hello its me' is taken at a slightly faster pace and really works.This brilliant project contains some of leroy's best work and is unmissable if yuo are into Burgess, Boogie or Uptempo early 80's Soul.

VARIOUS ARTISTS - SUNDAY SOUL SELECTION
16 Great 70’s Modern soul classics heavily featured on Sean Robbins Sunday morning shows. Inc the dancers Dells ‘Don’t trick Me Treat me’, Grace Jones ‘Sorry’, Caroline Crawford ‘Nice Feeling’ , Leon Thomas ‘Love Each Other’, Pulse ‘Sunshine’, Mac Davies ‘I’m Just In love’, Anthony White ‘Yes You Need Love’, Dramatics ‘No Rebate On Love’, Mary Mundy ‘You’re Putting a Hurt on me’ , Drifters ‘Put Your Little Heart Out’ , Tobi Kang ‘I Just Want To Love You’ , Major Lance ‘Don’t you Know I Love You’ and Presidents ‘Its All Over’, plus the mid tempo madness of Dynamics ‘We Found Love’, Ralph Graham ‘Aint No Need’ and Jean Plum ‘Here I Go again’. Classic 70’s Soul .Fantastic

SIR JOE QUARTERMAN AND FREE SOUL - S/T
Re-mastered and extended version of this great Classic Funk album from 1973. ‘I’ve Got So Much Trouble In My Mind’ is of course a well known classic, but of an equal standard from the original album are ‘Trouble With Trouble’, ‘The Way They Do My Life’, ‘Find Yourself’ and ‘I Made A Promise’. Added here are the non album singles ‘Thanks Dad’ , ‘This Girl Of mine’ , ‘Get Down Baby’ , ‘Im A Young Man’ and the brilliant and often sampled ‘Im Gonna Get You’, plus 3 tracks that were unreleased at the time the best of which is ‘How High’. A Great album which now sounds incredibly fresh and punchy.

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We are a UK based record label and store, established for over 15 years, specialising in new, classic and rare soul, jazz and funk. We also run a record label focused on releasing a range of classic reissues, compilations and new soul titles across the spectrum of black music, from 70’s Soul to rare Boogie, new Soul to spiritual Jazz, Disco, Rare Groove, 80’s Steppers, Modern Soul dancers, Fusion, Jazz-Funk – the lot! Our ‘Organic Soul’ series (consisting of three volumes) highlighted the work of over 30 individual independent soul artists including such new/organic soul luminaries as Ledisi, N’Dambi, Laurnea, Marlon Saunders, Sy Smith, and Yewende amongst many more. The ‘Organic Soul’ series developed into our latest new soul compilation project in the form of ‘This Is Soul 2005’ and ‘This Is Soul 2006’. As an ongoing project we are actively seeking new soul talent, be it unsigned or not, both to sell in our store and potentially, for inclusion on our label releases – in particular our ‘This Is Soul’ series. If you feel you’d like your music heard by a large UK and Worldwide audience we’d love to hear your demos, CDs, MP3’s, tapes, masters - you can even sing down the phone to us…whatever! Our store carries a comprehensive range of new, independent soul releases and we are renowned for supporting the artist at ‘ground level’ through a combination of retail expertise, Record label involvement and through supporting the music on our weekly radio show on www.solarradio.com