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Recommended releases 19th December 2014

New Releases

It’s the weekend before Christmas and there are still many new releases and reissues arriving.
D’Angelo gave everybody a suprise by releasing his first album in 14 years without warning on Monday. The album continues the path set by ‘Voodoo’ , deep dark album with P-Funk and Prince influences.
Timotha Lanae’s ‘Rewind’ arrives tomorrow and the lady will be in store at 1pm signing copies, i hope that you can join us, if you cant but would like a signed copy you can pre-order one here.
Faith Evans and Johnny Gill also make welcome returns. There are good Jazz albums from Gregg Karukas and Dionne Farris with Charlie Hunter, and a further installment of Craig Charles Soul and Funk club. Al Hudson’s early Atco recordings are nicely put together including some unreleased tracks. and The Chocolate Jam Co and Mark IV are good reissues. We also have a shipment arriving today from Japan we will send a mailer on titles available from this on monday

Vinyl

Plenty of Vinyl release this week with the delayed Black Friday Limited edition ‘For The People’ James Brown productions 45 Box set arriving, only a few of those so get it quick, and a great reissue from Rising Sun and two versions of an unreleased Aurra double 45 , including a few copies of the very limited red and orange swirl vinyl version, plus three great Northern Soul classics.

Focus on: Snarky Puppy

Snarky Puppy have steadily built up a great reputation through their gigs and four albums which include live DVD’s. Their grammy winning Family Dinner set featuring Lalah Hathaway and new set ‘We like it here’ have been two of our most in demand albums in the run up to Christmas.
The restocks have finally arrived today and all orders will be shipped plus we have some available for new orders. we have also added their first two albums to our range

Christmas gift ideas, best of the year and more

Our selection of Christmas Cds and Vinyl is shown here.

Best of the year in review

2014 has been a good year for Soul and Jazz with many great new albums and reissues on CD and Vinyl. You can see our massive review of the best albums and singles of the year here

Gift ideas

We have also assembled a great selection of Gift Ideas including Box sets, Books, and Clothing including our new Polo shirt available in all sizes from S to XXL and on our Signature Logo T-Shirt we have added XXXL by popular demand. See our selection here

Gift vouchers always make a welcome gift: we have these in £5, £10 and £25 options – buy gift vouchers here

Opening hours and last posting day

Last recommended posting date is MONDAY 22ND DECEMBER , please order before midday on 22nd to ensure we can ship everything out, but orders shipped Special Delivery on 23rd will also be delivered on Chrismas Eve. You can also take advantage of our click and collect option and collect from the shop which is open as usual until 5.30 on Christmas Eve, re-opening at 10am Sat 27th.

Radio Show

I hope that you enjoyed the show last week, if you missed it its now on the podcast here
Hope that you can join me this Sunday on Solar radio /sky 0129 for another Soul Brother Selection.
Hope to see you for Timotha Lanae tomorrow!
have a great weekend
Laurence