After an eight year hiatus from recording, since releasing "Bleuphoria" in 2011, Rahsaan Patterson released "Heroes & Gods" in May 2019. On Friday (5 Nov 2021) "Heroes & Gods 2.0" is released which is the album 'reimagined' by house producer
Quentin Harris.
Essentially all the tracks have been 'housed up' which will make purists
cringe but may give the album new dancefloor appeal. The jury's out on
this one so I'll let you make up your own mind as to whether it adds or
detracts from the original from the sneak preview below. I've also included
the full original album.
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artist.
Terrian (Woods) is from Memphis , TN and was part of
AngelStreet mentoring programme from 2013. She released her eighth single
"Wake Up" since her first in 2016 on 1 Oct 2021.
It comes bundled with an additional track "Light It Up".
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The Buttshakers were founded in 2007 in Lyon, France, led
by female vocalist Ciara Thompson, and have been likened to Sharon Jones
& The Dap Kings. They are an authentic retro soul/funk band and infuse
elements of garage rock.
Their fifth album "Arcadia" is released on Friday (5 Nov 2021). "Back In America" has already been released as a single in April and "Not In My Name" is set to be the next single, also released on Friday.
It will be on major DSPs on Friday for probably £7.99 but is available to
pre-order on BandCamp for just €7 (£5.94). The links to the 'dead' tracks
will be live when released.
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UK based singer/songwriter Sugar Rainbow is of Apache mixed
heritage and grew up in Holland. She is known for her five-octave soprano
range.
In August she released "Game Of Life" which has just received a remix by DJ Sammy Noire and will
be out shortly but you can hear it now below.
On her musical journey she has lived and worked in Holland, Belgium,
France, Spain, Africa, USA, and England as a singer/songwriter.
In her late teens she was signed to Belgium label 'Yes We Tall Records as a
duo Sugar & Spice with a keyboard player. She then set up
a recording studio in her spare room at her home in Holland and recorded her
first two albums "Magic Touch" and "Awareness" along with an EP. She then moved to South Africa where the albums were
well received.
Whilst working with Colonel Abrams in the US she signed another contract and recorded
another album "Nu Soul" which was well received.
When she returned to England she signed up with a production company
specialising in pop/rock music and recorded another album and then
hooked up with a sound engineer who was working for the Spice Girls and
recorded another two albums "Invisible Life" and "Independent Dreams".
She was invited to sing lead in a band with some great musicians where she
met the funky bass player John Thompson, who worked with various great
artist such as D’Angelo, Girls Aloud, Omar, The Jones Girls, Erykah Badu,
Eric Bennet, Tito Jackson Brandy, Soul2Soul, Shalamar, Jocelyn Brown, and
many, many others.
A few years later they decided to form their own 7-piece band called
Soul Dimension singing funky party songs and entertaining at
various functions.
They then had the idea to start an old-school 70’s/80’s funk
music production and put a team together which include the funk brothers of Soul Dimension, John Thompson & Peter Barnes, called
RainbowFunk doing the music they love, Soul, Funk, Disco,
Jazz, Lovers Rock.
They are currently working on some new funky tracks and touching up the
old ones. An Album is in the works and expected 2022.
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