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Greg Blackman Comes on Back With Your Best Interests at Heart!
Posted January 23, 2012 by SoulCuts
SoulCuts fave, Greg Blackman returns with a fierce double-header, clearly shaking up his previous retro-soul persona with an outlook and sound more in touch with his myriad influences. It’s a brave and bold move to change tack so radically at such an early stage in a recording career, particularly given the sometimes conservative tastes of [...]
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Smoove & Turrell – Live in London
Posted January 24, 2012 by SoulCuts
2011 was a breakthrough year for the UK’s Smoove & Turrell. With Eccentric Audio, the North-East duo delivered one of 2011′s finest soul albums that was enthusiastically received by fans, critics and radio alike. The album generated three singles (Slow Down, Hard Work and Gabriel) that made waves on the iTunes soul chart with playlist [...]
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Greg Blackman Comes on Back With Your Best Interests at Heart!
Posted January 23, 2012 by SoulCuts
SoulCuts fave, Greg Blackman returns with a fierce double-header, clearly shaking up his previous retro-soul persona with an outlook and sound more in touch with his myriad influences. It’s a brave and bold move to change tack so radically at such an early stage in a recording career, particularly given the sometimes conservative tastes of [...]
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Winston Warrior Keeps (It) Movin’ with SoulCuts!
Posted January 20, 2012 by SoulCuts
Do you remember when R&B artists had soul and substance? Back before the devil Guetta and his minions poisoned the airwaves with their toxic tripe. OK, we can’t wholly blame the fall of R&B as a genre on Guetta, as tempting as it is. And there’s no one figure wholly responsible for its devolution into [...]
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Robert Glasper Experiment + King = Move Love = Happy SoulCuts!
Posted January 10, 2012 by SoulCuts
How do you move love? I’ve no idea. But Robert Glasper and King certainly profess to know how on this new track from the forthcoming album Black Radio. It’s without doubt one of 2012′s most anticipated releases and advance word suggests that the album’s every bit as good as the enveloping buzz. While we wait [...]
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Tonight We Gonna…Listen to Mass Sheen
Posted January 9, 2012 by SoulCuts
I noticed the Mass Sheen name crop up on a number of hot remixes throughout 2011, most notably the Avery*Sunshine and Khari Simmons tracks from The Hurst Selection compilation. A little bit of investigation revealed Mass Sheen to be a serious triple threat made up of Khari Simmons (of India Arie and Jiva fame – [...]
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Lalah Hathaway Tells SoulCuts Where It All Begins….
Posted December 19, 2011 by SoulCuts
Lalah Hathaway’s new album, Where it All Begins, has been lauded as her best work to date. This new Stax album is probably her most diverse release to date, incorporating greater pop and contemporary R&B flourishes than previous releases. The title is the kind you’d associate with an artist just bursting on to the scene [...]
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Major Hotness Alert – SoulCuts Radio Show for November!
Posted November 25, 2011 by SoulCuts
It’s another erection forming and exciting edition of The SoulCuts Radio Show. All new tunes, taking in soul, house, funk, jazz, boogie and lots of other wonderful stuff. Peep the playlist below, hit the player, share to the world, get naked and embrace the love!
And if you need to take it with you, here’s the [...]
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Cleveland Jones is ‘Back For The First Time’ with 3 New SoulCuts!
Posted November 9, 2011 by SoulCuts
Welcome back to the Cleveland Jones Show! Regular SoulCutters will be all too familiar with Cleveland Jones‘ artistry. We’ve featured him a number of times over the past few months since his emergence to us via a couple of stunning collaborations with SoulCuts fave, Ahmed Sirour. And as 2011 draws to a close, it looks [...]
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Ola Onabule Takes SoulCuts (Seven Shades) Deeper with Be A Man
Posted November 4, 2011 by SoulCuts
With an international profile built on the back of extensive live performances and six strong studio albums, Ola‘s position as one of the finest soul talents ever to come out of the UK is secured. We recently shared the mini-documentary, An Artiste’s Journey here on SoulCuts, and now I’m overjoyed to share the video for [...]
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SoulCuts Can’t Walk Away From The Revelations Featuring Tre Williams
Posted November 4, 2011 by SoulCuts
One of the best new soul albums doing the rounds at the moment has to be the Southern inspired collection from The Revelations Featuring Tre Williams, Concrete Blues. A couple of years on from their debut record, The Bleeding Edge, Tre and his band have remained true to their original vision, offering another collection of [...]
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Smoove & Turrell – Live in London
2011 was a breakthrough year for the UK’s Smoove & Turrell. With Eccentric Audio, the North-East duo delivered one of 2011′s finest soul albums that was enthusiastically received by fans, critics and radio alike...
Greg Blackman Comes on Back With Your Best Interests at Heart!
SoulCuts fave, Greg Blackman returns with a fierce double-header, clearly shaking up his previous retro-soul persona with an outlook and sound more in touch with his myriad influences. It’s a brave and bold move to change tac...
Winston Warrior Keeps (It) Movin’ with SoulCuts!
Do you remember when R&B artists had soul and substance? Back before the devil Guetta and his minions poisoned the airwaves with their toxic tripe. OK, we can’t wholly blame the fall of R&B as a genre on Guetta, as ...
Robert Glasper Experiment + King = Move Love = Happy SoulCuts!
How do you move love? I’ve no idea. But Robert Glasper and King certainly profess to know how on this new track from the forthcoming album Black Radio. It’s without doubt one of 2012′s most anticipated release...
Tonight We Gonna…Listen to Mass Sheen
I noticed the Mass Sheen name crop up on a number of hot remixes throughout 2011, most notably the Avery*Sunshine and Khari Simmons tracks from The Hurst Selection compilation. A little bit of investigation revealed Mass Sheen ...
Lalah Hathaway Tells SoulCuts Where It All Begins….
Lalah Hathaway’s new album, Where it All Begins, has been lauded as her best work to date. This new Stax album is probably her most diverse release to date, incorporating greater pop and contemporary R&B flourishes than ...
Major Hotness Alert – SoulCuts Radio Show for November!
It’s another erection forming and exciting edition of The SoulCuts Radio Show. All new tunes, taking in soul, house, funk, jazz, boogie and lots of other wonderful stuff. Peep the playlist below, hit the player, share to ...
Cleveland Jones is ‘Back For The First Time’ with 3 New SoulCuts!
Welcome back to the Cleveland Jones Show! Regular SoulCutters will be all too familiar with Cleveland Jones‘ artistry. We’ve featured him a number of times over the past few months since his emergence to us via a co...
Ola Onabule Takes SoulCuts (Seven Shades) Deeper with Be A Man
With an international profile built on the back of extensive live performances and six strong studio albums, Ola‘s position as one of the finest soul talents ever to come out of the UK is secured. We recently shared the m...
SoulCuts Can’t Walk Away From The Revelations Featuring Tre Williams
One of the best new soul albums doing the rounds at the moment has to be the Southern inspired collection from The Revelations Featuring Tre Williams, Concrete Blues. A couple of years on from their debut record, The Bleeding E...
We’re All Popping Round to Scrimshire’s ‘Home’
Ahead of his new album, The Hollow, Scrimshire has released an evocative slice of British soul via his new single, Home. Featuring the beguiling tones of Resonators singer, Faye Houston, Home is perhaps Scrimshire’s finest tu...
Classic SoulCuts on soulandjazz.com!
I’m overjoyed to announce my new association with the mighty soulandjazz.com. I’m honoured and excited to be part of the family at soulandjazz.com. Without doubt, they offer some of the finest podcasts and radio sho...
Soulpersona + Tashan = Soulful Magic!
I remember buying Tashan‘s On The Horizon on cassette back in the late eighties. At the time I was deeply into hip-hop. It was that period when hip-hop artists considered singers to be soft! However, following a feature i...
Ola Onabule – An Artiste’s Journey
Ola Onabule is one of my favourite soul singers. His sophisticated brand of soul music has long been a permanent fixture chez SoulCuts. I was introduced to him back in the nineties via his second album, From Meaning Beyond Defi...
New SoulCuts Radio Show! The Eclectic Selection Brings the HEAT!
We’re back with another edition of the SoulCuts Radio Show: The Eclectic Selection. Just over an hour of the finest music on earth featuring current cuts from Vindahl, TiRon & Ayomari, Jesse Fischer & Soul Cycle...
Fingersnap Make SoulCuts ‘Wanna Rise’!
I Wanna Rise by Fingersnap (a new British soul duo made up of Guy Davies and David McAlmont) is an unpretentious soul-pop anthem ripe for the dour times we seem to find ourselves in. I’ve followed David’s career for many ye...
Ledisi Talks to SoulCuts – Podcast & Interview
SoulCuts had the pleasure of catching up with Ledisi the day after her triumphant return to the UK in the sweatbox environment of London‘s Bush Hall. As ever, Ledisi brought the house down, with new fans and the old faith...
Vindahl’s Serendipity is an Instant Soul Pop Classic!
I’ve been waiting impatiently for Vindahl’s debut solo album for quite some time. Four years in the making, the Boom Clap Bachelor has taken his time to produce a soulful electronic pop album of such dizzying quality that i...
Take a Bow, Madam Palindrome!
Deborah Bond‘s new album, Madam Palindrome, is one of the best indie soul albums doing the rounds at the moment. Jam-packed to the rafters with quality contemporary soul, Deborah and her band/production outfit Third Logic...
‘The One’ to Watch!
One of the most intriguing tracks to come my way in recent times is surely The One‘s Double Life. The track may have originally surfaced a year ago, but it sounds as fresh as a daisy, although maybe not quite so pretty. T...
More Goodies from the SoulCuts Radio Show!
It’s another edition of the SoulCuts Radio Show. With so much good music floating about, I just had to pull together another 50 minutes of cracking tunes for your delight. Coming in at around fifty minutes, this is perfec...
Omar is The Man!
It’s always cause for celebration chez SoulCuts when the UK’s finest, Omar, pops up with a lovely new ditty and this particular cut, The Man, from his forthcoming album of the same name has left me salivating in a f...
SoulCuts Interview: Jesse Fischer Breaks Down Soul Cycle’s Homebrew
Jesse Fischer‘s Soul Cycle have become a firm favourite chez SoulCuts. Their usual combination of soul, jazz, funk, pop, dance and all good stuff in between can be found on their new release, Homebrew. With the Colman Bro...
The SoulCuts Radio Show – September’s Eclectic Selection
Welcome along to another edition of the moderately popular SoulCuts Radio Show. In this edition we’re bringing an ‘eclectic selection’ of soul, jazz, hip-hop and house flavours, all mixed together with Mr Sou...
There’s Not Much More to Life than Great Music. Cheers, Ben Westbeech!
We’ve been waiting for quite some time to tuck in to Ben Westbeech‘s sophomore album. His 2007 debut for Brownswood, Welcome to the Best Years of Your Life, heralded the arrival of an eclectic talent creating exciti...
Kaidi Thatham Drops 5ive Jazzy Gems!
I first became aware of Kaidi Tatham back in 2003 following the release of his fabulous ‘solo’ album Feed The Cat under the pseudonym, Agent K. A doyen of the broken beat scene, it’s refreshing to hear that Kaidi’s not ...
SoulCuts Ain’t Sleeping on Andre Henry!
Andre Henry’s debut release, Insomnia, emphatically announces the arrival of an honest and romantic, impassioned soul stylist working at the intersection of soul, jazz and pop. Produced by SoulCuts fave Jesse Fischer, of Soul...
The SoulCuts Radio Show – 8 from the 80s!
In this short edition of the SoulCuts Radio Show, we’re bringing you 8 rare grooves and classics from the 1980s, hand selected by Mr SoulCuts himself to get your little tushies on the floor, all mixed together with the us...
Oddisee is Definitely Doing It In The Park & Beyond!!!
Oddisee’s Rock Creek Park is a predominantly instrumental ode to the Washington DC park of the same name. Universally known by all serious soul, jazz and funk heads via the seminal groove served up by The Blackbyrds back in t...
Some Old (Good) Shit from Greg Blackman, Orlando Perez & Pals!
Friend of SoulCuts, Greg Blackman continues to put out the good stuff in 2011. Although there’s no follow up to the glorious homespun soul of his debut, The Price of Love, due this year, it would seem that Greg‘s ha...
