Category: Neo soul

  • …just visiting too EP – Zo! – free music download

    …just visiting too EP – Zo! – free music download

    Fans of ’70s soul-jazz will love this free seven-track EP by Maryland-based music producer Zo! An increasing number of musicians are giving away their work in a bid to get noticed. It’s a ploy followed by Maryland-based music producer Zo!. On …just visiting too, he, along with singers like Yahzarah and Carlitta Durand, pays homage […]

  • Spin Down single preview – Brotherly

    Spin Down single preview – Brotherly

    Previewing the new single by a duo that produced a Commercial Break album of the Year Anna Stubbs and Robin Mullarkey (aka Brotherly) have released Spin Down, the decidedly funky single from their forthcoming LP Find First Light that’s currently being mixed at Flowriders Studio in Amsterdam. For their new album, the duo say they […]

  • Kissey Asplund music profile

    Kissey Asplund music profile

    Profiling soulful Swedish songstress Kissey Asplund who’s worked with artists such as Dorian Concept She’s been described as Sweden’s answer to Erykah Badu and, to be honest, that’s a fair assessment. Like the Headwrapped One, the sound of this soulful songstress (of Swedish and Caribbean parentage) is steeped in hip hop, as reflected in her […]

  • Sweet Liberation album preview – Colonel Red

    Sweet Liberation album preview – Colonel Red

    Previewing a nu soul album from singer-songwriter Colonel Red Singer-songwriter Colonel Red, whose voice can be heard on such hits as Daz-I-Kue’s Rokstone (Soon Come), is about to release his second solo album on the Ruff Language label. Sweet Liberation, which spans soul to spoken word, features a host of producing talent, including Bugz In […]

  • Renegades album review – Mark de Clive-Lowe

    Renegades album review – Mark de Clive-Lowe

    de Clive-Lowe has made a few tweaks in his life that may have influenced the sound of his ninth album. Having recently moved from London to Los Angeles, Renegades gestated in the City of Angels. That may account for the high-profile personnel, which includes Prince percussionist Sheila E and arranger extraordinaire Miguel Atwood-Ferguson. de Clive-Lowe […]

  • Cries & Smiles album review – Izzi Dunn

    Cries & Smiles album review – Izzi Dunn

    We expect albums to have strong, singular themes, even though the artists that create them aren’t one-dimensional beings.Cries & Smiles, as its title suggests, has a dual identity: its jazzier, clubbier cuts sit alongside more chart-friendly soul singles. So those of a funkier ilk will home in on Tits & Ass, G@Ngst*R Bitch and the title track. […]

  • New Amerykah Part Two: Return Of The Ankh album review – Erykah Badu

    New Amerykah Part Two: Return Of The Ankh album review – Erykah Badu

    Badu’s 2008 album, New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War, attracted heaps of press, perhaps because it was her first release for five years. New Amerykah Part Two (Return Of The Ankh), in contrast, struggled to raise a murmur until… Badu got her kit off in a video. Cue much head scratching as fans tried […]

  • The Light album review – Deborah Jordan

    The Light album review – Deborah Jordan

    If Janet Jackson had been born in England, she might have wound up sounding like Jordan. There’s a delicate quality to Jordan’s voice that brings to mind the wardrobe-malfunctioning starlet. Those similarities were never apparent when Jordan sang with broken beaters Silhouette Brown, but on this debut album the parallels are apt. The Light is […]

  • BLACKsummers’ night album review – Maxwell

    BLACKsummers’ night album review – Maxwell

    Eight years after Now, the Brooklyn-born sex god is back, minus the afro, to serenade any female within earshot. But before Maxwell became a statuesque bundle of erotic energy, it’s worth noting that there was more to him than a chiselled jawline and taut buttocks. Back in 1996, he released Urban Hang Suite, a coolly […]

  • Higher album review – Michelle Amador

    Higher album review – Michelle Amador

    Roy Ayers. Roy Ayers. Roy Ayers. That’s the name that springs to mind when listening to Higher. In fact, Ayers is pretty much in the room on He And She, a superb song that features Ayers sound-alike Mr. J. But even when Mr. J isn’t jamming, Ayers’ aura is ever present because Michelle’s cool, measured phrasing is […]