VA [2021] - Captivating Grooves, Volume One [Platinum Garage Recordings]

If you read the recent UK Soul Chart Breakers post this week you may have noticed a couple of tracks which seemed to come from nowhere (i.e. Gemia Burns, Stylistics), well they are actually from a new compilation 'Captivating Grooves, Volume One' released 14 May 2021. 

There are few other decent tracks on the album including Ali Woodson & Freda Payne, Brenda Lee Eager & Grady Harrell and Clif Payne (which are probably the best tracks in my view), so I thought I may as well post the full album. I think it's a mixture of old and new tracks (not least on the basis that Maurice White died in 2016!).

Clif Payne, for me, is the standout track. It was released on a Platinum Garage album '100' in 2020, but I think it may have been released as a single prior to that in May 2018. He also released a duet with Freda Payne in 2016 'No Pain, No Gain' which got a couple of Nigel Lowis remixes.

Preston Glass was involved in all of the tracks (either writing, arranging, producing or performing)  (Gemia Burns is his daughter)  and he and soul journalist (Blues & Soul back in the day) David Nathan are behind the label. Read more on their website.

Spotify doesn't list the artists so here's the tracklist:

01 - Gemia Burns - Like Velvet

02 - Ali Woodson & Freda Payne - Dreaming Wide Awake

03 - Brenda Lee Eager & Grady Harrell - Always On The Lookout For Love

04 - Preston Glass - Good Music Will Never Die

05 - The Stylistics - She's All That (Remix)

06 - Pharaoh's Dream - Mellowmance

07 - Bishop Wayne - You Know And I Know

08 - Maurice White - I Couldn't Be Me Without You

09 - Clif Payne - Get Up, Get Busy

10 - Edward Sealey feat. Kendrick Washington - Here For You (feat. Kendrick Washington)

11 - Nadia Cole - Today

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Details

Rating:	7.8
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format:	Album Compilation
Media:	Digital
Label:	Platinum Garage Recordings
Cat No:	None
Year:	14/05/2021
Value:	£7.99