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• Maze featuring Frankie Beverly - Live In New Orleans Wednesday 07 March 2012

  Soul’s very own Frampton Comes Alive!, which broke Maze to new audiences.

  Bay Area combo Maze, led by Frankie Beverly, had released four albums by the time it was decided to capture the group’s infectious live show on record. Their message of global love and unity, so apparent in studio work, worked wonderfully on the road, leader Beverly cast in the role of a travelling preacher with his committed choir. New Orleans falls quickly under the group’s spell: "I know y’all can sing," the frontman cries, continuing: "This is the place, y’all. Why do the live album in New Orleans? Why not, ya dig?"

• Finley Quaye - Maverick a Strike Wednesday 23 November 2011

  A debut full of quirkiness, sophistication and well-written tunes.

  For a brief while, Edinburgh-born musician Finley Quaye genuinely seemed like the future. When Maverick a Strike was released in September 1997, its maker arrived with a beguiling and newsworthy back-story – son of composer Cab Kaye, half-brother of Elton John’s guitarist Caleb Quaye, and apparently an uncle to Tricky. Although that earned him column inches, it was his music, a perfect meeting point of roots reggae and the then-current trip hop craze, that made him loved.

• El Rod - Art Nouveau Wednesday 02 November 2011

  Via the VPRO Luisterpaal you can listen to a new CD release. This time it is the CD 'Art Nouveau' from 'El Rod'. This is the track list.

• Chagall - Chagall Monday 24 October 2011

  Via the VPRO Luisterpaal you can listen to a new CD release. This time it is the CD 'Chagall' from 'Chagall'. This is the track list.

• Fatoumata Diawara - Fatou Monday 17 October 2011

  Via the VPRO Luisterpaal you can listen to a new CD release. This time it is the CD 'Fatou' from 'Fatoumata Diawara'. This is the track list.

• The Stepkids - The Stepkids Monday 26 September 2011

  Via the VPRO Luisterpaal you can listen to a new CD release. This time it is the CD 'The Stepkids' from 'The Stepkids'. This is the track list.

• Step Kings - The Stepkids Monday 26 September 2011

  Via the VPRO Luisterpaal you can listen to a new CD release. This time it is the CD 'The Stepkids' from 'Step Kings'. This is the track list.

• SuperHeavy - SuperHeavy Monday 19 September 2011

  Muziek / CD-recensies

• Chic - Risqué Tuesday 06 September 2011

  The disco album as rock classic.

  Chic’s third album, Risqué, is one of the greatest exhibits in the case for disco’s defence. Released in the summer of 1979, it was as integral to the Atlantic label as any of the great rock albums that had taken the imprint out of Black America and into the world in the late 60s. With a budget of $160,000, it was a widescreen record with widescreen ambitions.

• Curtis Mayfield - Curtis/Live! Tuesday 23 August 2011

  An intimate live portrait of a unique performer.

  Although more space has always been given to Marvin Gaye’s politicisation with What’s Going On in 1971, at the same time Curtis Mayfield was sincere in his belief that music should carry potent messages of change and advancement for African Americans. Curtis/Live! captures Mayfield at his very best. He was still only a year outside of his old group, The Impressions, and very much striking out on his own.

• Fitz and The Tantrums - Pickin’ Up the Pieces Tuesday 16 August 2011

  Debut album of retro-R&B from LA soulsters.

  Michael Fitzpatrick and his band, which includes former members of Dilated Peoples and De La Soul, are on a mission: to reclaim the original US R&B, an American invention, remember, even if the dominance of UK soul girls (Adele, Amy, Joss et al) on both sides of the Atlantic over the past few years would suggest otherwise.

• The Bongolian - Bongos For Beatniks Saturday 06 August 2011

  Via the VPRO Luisterpaal you can listen to a new CD release. This time it is the CD 'Bongos For Beatniks' from 'The Bongolian'. This is the track list.

• Prince - Parade Friday 05 August 2011

  Not quite a classic Prince album, but Kiss is a minimalist masterpiece

  Whereas 1984’s Purple Rain had seen Prince merge the on-screen and on-record perfectly, remaining a classic to this day, Parade can’t quite claim to be as essential. Again a soundtrack to one of the Purple One’s excursions into cinema, it supports the movie Under the Cherry Moon – a flop which cleaned up at 1987’s Golden Raspberry Awards. The album, though, is significantly better than the messy flick, which featured Kristin Scott Thomas in one of her most forgettable roles.

• Stevie Wonder - Innervisions Friday 29 July 2011

  A work of constant, evolving surprise.

  Remarkably, Innervisions is Stevie Wonder's 16th studio album. It is the album that best celebrates his musical maturity and completes the transition from Little Stevie Wonder to the grown-up artist with an active imagination and burning social conscience. Coming just nine months after Talking Book, Innervisions is Wonder at the absolute peak of his powers, a 23-year-old man with the world at his fingertips.

• Smoove + Turrell - Eccentric Audio Friday 22 July 2011

  Via the VPRO Luisterpaal you can listen to a new CD release. This time it is the CD 'Eccentric Audio' from 'Smoove + Turrell'. This is the track list.

• Luther Vandross - The Night I Fell in Love Tuesday 19 July 2011

  Dreamy reveries, performed by Vandross at the absolute top of his game.

  Although its successor, Give Me the Reason – Luther Vandross’ fifth solo album – was the one that truly broke him commercially in the UK, The Night I Fell in Love is arguably the point where everything aligned for this remarkable singer.

• Donny Hathaway - Live Tuesday 05 July 2011

  Quite simply one of the best live albums ever recorded.

  Recorded in two intimate clubs better known for their showcasing of folk and rock, The Troubadour in LA and The Bitter End in Greenwich Village, this live album enhanced Donny Hathaway’s reputation. It frequented the US charts in tandem with the album he’d cut with Roberta Flack and established him as one of the greatest writers and performers of his generation.

• Jamiroquai - The Return of the Space Cowboy Tuesday 31 May 2011

  Captures this first phase of Jamiroquai at their very best.

  When Jason ‘Jay Kay’ Cheetham and his band appeared in 1992 as part of the acid jazz movement, they were viewed with a great deal of suspicion by the rock and soul cognoscenti. Aside from their leader’s silly hat, they – keyboard player Toby Smith, bassist Stuart Zender, drummer Derrick McKenzie and Wallis Buchanan on didgeridoo – seemed too arriviste; he was a showbiz child (his mother is comedienne Karen Kay), had bad boy credentials and a deep love for Stevie Wonder’s music. Naming his band after a combination of ‘jam session’ and the Iroquois Indians, theirs was a weird, stoned funk that sounded like some lost album from 1972.

• Miles Davis - Tutu Tuesday 24 May 2011

  A work of engrossingly fraught atmospheres, and proof that Davis was still relevant.

  Jazz’s most famous son is given godly status for his work in the 50s – as in Kind of Blue – and the 70s – as in Bitches Brew. The 80s remains a dubious period of his discography. Tutu casts doubt on that received wisdom. Although it is still dismissed by many as ‘lightweight’ or, worse still, ‘pop-fusion’, the album, whose striking monochrome sleeve stylized the trumpeter’s austere, sculptural, late-years beauty, had something that captured the imagination of many outside of the world of jazz.

• The Jig - Brooklyn Blowout Thursday 28 April 2011

  Via the VPRO Luisterpaal you can listen to a new CD release. This time it is the CD 'Brooklyn Blowout' from 'The Jig'. This is the track list.