Soul Strutter: GarciaWalker&Durrell [2021] - Praying For Rain [Soul-Intention #SILP001] Sample

Wednesday 21 July 2021

GarciaWalker&Durrell [2021] - Praying For Rain [Soul-Intention #SILP001] Sample

GarciaWalker&Durrell album "Praying For Rain" is due for release next Friday (30 Jul 2021). I 'assume' that this will be available on vinyl only (initially at least).

A few of the tracks have been available previously, the cover of Beloyd's "Get Into Your Life" was released on 45 in Mar 2021 and the title track "Praying For Rain" was featured on Soul Togetherness 2014 compilation. It would also appear that "Gotta Have You" may have been released (or leaked) around 2016.

Vince Garcia was an original member of Drizabone with Billy April who were essentially producers who drafted in, generally female, vocalists (Sophie Jones, Dee Heron and then Kymberley Peer) to feature of their tracks. He left in the mid 90s and moved from London to Yorkshire. Mike Walker was the original keyboardist with Drizabone and Vince Durrell is from L.A. who Walker discovered busking in his home town of Leeds.

Garcia met Walker again by chance who introduced him to Durrell and Garcia set up a studio in his new home in Hull and they began recording songs. He later moved back to London and created a new studio where he began putting together "Praying For Rain". By all accounts the tapes were leaked to soul radio stations who started playing the title track which resulted in it being released on the Soul Togetherness 2014 compilation. There was a buzz but for some inexplicable reason the album was never released ... until now.

As the album isn't released yet, and that it is likely to be vinyl only, the best I can do is link to three tracks that are in the public domain and direct you to Mark Coddington's First Experience Records store who has samples of all the tracks you can listen to and where you can pre-order the album from.

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