This year’s “in” black music style is the slow, sweet groove of soul harmony ballads. Interest has grown over the last decade and now the rarer of these records regularly reach four figure prices. This interest in Soul Harmony has led to Ace forming its own singles label of that name for the purpose of issuing tracks on vinyl for DJs and collectors of this genre.
Though not that expensive, several tracks on here command hefty prices due to demand. The Question Marks on Money, the Puffs on Dore, John Wesley and the 4 Tees’ Melic offering will make a hole in most pockets. We aren’t picking the songs on price though, rather on musical excellence. Hence the recordings by the Mad Lads, Moments, Diplomats and Lee Williams…
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In 1969, as Cold War tensions simmered, Jerry Goldsmith composed the score for The Chairman, a spy thriller starring Gregory Peck. Known for his genre-spanning versatility, Goldsmith had already impressed Hollywood with scores for Planet of the Apes and The Sand Pebbles. This film presented a unique challenge: blending Western orchestration with Eastern musical motifs to reflect the story’s geopolitical intrigue.
…”Microwave,” the 1989 track from Japanese singer Kyoko Koizumi, opens with a plasticky creak and a kitchen timer ring. Adding in crunchy guitar samples, a thudding drum machine and a house-inspired keyboard solo, the chart-topping vocalist embraced the playful spirit that defined Japan’s experimental ’80s genre, known as techno kayō, or techno pop. Positioned on the B-side of the new vinyl-only compilation, Techno Kayō Vol. 1: Japanese Techno Pop 1981-1989, “Microwave” proves that this sometimes-underestimated genre still has the power to surprise.
As an artist who tries to present your art in more forms than one, there are so many obstacles in front of you, particularly if you try to present a certain concept or concept through it. It not only requires a ton of talent but also hours of hard work to make something sensible out of it.
Congolese guitarist Kiala Nzavotunga began his career playing in Le Grand Kalle’s Africa Jazz band, but he became tired of the regime in the DRC and relocated to Nigeria in the ’70s, joining Fela Kuti’s Egypt 80 and later forming the African-French Afrobeat group Ghetto Blaster.
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Inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1941 “Four Freedoms” speech — articulating freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear — trumpeter 
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What if insomnia were a great black black ball of smoke, drifting above thoroughfares, slowly unfurling into ovoid shapes before spreading its tentacles across the land? What if it were to descend upon the general populace, creeping insidiously lower and lower until it cloaked local buildings and was inhaled by those below? What if it became virtually indistinguishable from the night? Yuki Murata’s video for 
Chicago-born and Springfield, Illinois-based blues and soul man Charles Tiner bursts out of your speaker with the kind of unrelenting power that immediately commands attention. It’s his overpowering organ and a potent voice to match. The aptly named Good Soul grabs tight and never lets go. The soloists in Tiner’s band, whether from four different lead guitarists, tenor saxophonist Theo Fisher, or harmonicist Chris Camp, match his fire too. This gospel-infused, roof-raising session will arouse even the most slumberous types. Yet there is little spiritual fare. Only the oft covered “Don’t Let the Devil Ride” qualifies. The rest of the tracks have their roots in the blues, both musically and topically, as Tiner sings mostly about survival, requited and unrequited love,…