Soul Strutter: 08/30/22

Tuesday, 30 August 2022

J. DAPHANEY [2022] - SUPALOVE [Self Released] (Full Album)

We last heard from J. DAPHANEY on 4 Jul with her single "SupaLove" which I believed was to be the title track from a forthcoming EP but she has actually released a full twelve track album on 29 Aug 2022.

J. DAPHANEY .(Joaquina Daphaney) was born and raised on the south side of Chicago to a family of singers native to Mississippi. In 2008 she was a backing singer for David Cassidy and performed with him on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

J. released her debut album "Love, Life & R&B" in 2018 and had a UK Soul Chart entry with "Love Star" in Feb 2021 (a new DJ Soulchild remix of which is included on the new album) and again in April 2021 with "Can't Wait 2 Luv U" and more recently in June this year with MS1 Project and "Set It Off".

In June she featured on a soulful house track with The Shamanic (Ralphi Rosario and Craig J Snider) on their single "Higher Ground". (video below).

On a very quick first play the stand outs are "Love Feeling" (which starts off as if it's a live recording and has a bit of an Al Wilson "Show And Tell" vibe about it) "Come Back" and "Celebrate", and if you like a bit if funk "Winner" is reminiscent of Chaka's "Like Suga". I 'suspect' that many will go for the obvious i.e. the "Love Star (Soulchild Remix)".

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Details

Rating:	8.6
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	New Soul
Format:	Album
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	29/08/2022
Price:	£7.99

R.J.'s Latest Arrival [1986] - Heaven In Your Arms [Manhattan #B-50040]

Each Monday Spotify presents a playlist called Discover Weekly which theoretically selects 30 tracks based upon your listening habits. This long time favourite appeared this week which you may or may not be familiar with.

It's by Detroit group R.J.'s Latest Arrival (name after founder R.J. Rice) with "Heaven In Your Arms" from their 1986 album "Hold On" and was also released as a single 7" and 12". The song was written by Garry Glenn and Dianne Quander who wrote for many artists including, most famously, Anita Baker's "Caught Up In The Rapture" the title track of her 1986 breakthrough album "Rapture" which followed "The Songstress" (1983).

Details

Rating:	8.6
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Modern Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	7"
Label:	Manhattans
Cat No:	None
Date:	06/1986
Key/BPM:	4A/93
Price:	£4-£8 approx.

Khruangbin v The Soul Surfers - Summer Madness

How appropriate for this summer, heatwaves, droughts, floods, and wildfires all occurring concurrently around the world... Summer Madness!

This track popped up whilst listening to the last post for The Ironsides. It's from Khruangbin off a Dec 2020 album "Night Time Tales: Khruangbin" and then immediately afterwards another cover of the Kool & The Gang song popped up by The Soul Surfers from Sep 2019! So, given we are approaching hump day and there is nothing much else around, why not?

The Ironsides [2022] - Changing Light / Sommer [Colemine #CLMN-176]

The Ironsides are from San Francisco and feature members of Monophonics. Colemine is releasing "Changing Light", described as a cinematic, orchestral track, along with "Sommer" on vinyl on 14 Oct 2022. The B side was released digitally over two yeas ago in Jun 2020 with the A side getting a digital release today (30 Aug 2022).

"Sommer" is a cover of an obscure 1972 song by Danish duo Stig & Steen (Steen Toft Andersen and Stig Kreutzfeldt) from their "Da Solen Kom" album.

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Details

Rating:	7.8
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Soul Jazz Funk Instrumental
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital / 7"
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	30/08/2022 / 14/10/2022
Key/BPM:	9A/72 / 10A/94
Price:	£1 / $7.99

Sara Lina [2022] - King Street Dancer [Self Released]

Sara Lina Maida Neilsen is from Kolding, Denmark but is currently located in Melbourne Australia. She's released, what appears to be, her debut single "King Street Dancer" today (30 Aug 2022).

She states that her music fluidly mixes sounds inspired by future jazz and neo-soul.

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Details

Rating:	7.7
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul / Blue-Eyed
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	30/08/2022
Key/BPM:	11B/75
Price:	£1

Steve Aggasild [2022-08-29] - SoulAndJazzFlavas [Soul Groove Radio]

This Monday's episode of Soul & Jazz Flavas show from 'The Soul Master' Steve Aggasild on Soul Groove Radio 29th Aug 2022.

Normally for the first hour Steve features a 2022 retrospective delving through releases from earlier in 2022 and then gets right back up to date in the second hour with the best of the current releases including many only just released in the last week and some forthcoming. This week Steve's focussed on entirely new music from the last few weeks, here's what he's said:

"So tonight I decided to focus purely on new music that's come out over the last three weeks or so and also repeat some stuff I have played recently and feature even more new music that I have been blessed to discover this week with the help of our friends @ Soulstrutter PLUS artists need MORE than one play on radio for the audience to connect so lets give them a fighting chance"

Join Steve live this evening on Soul Groove Radio for his Tue night show between 22:00-24:00 BST for plenty of new releases he couldn't fit in last night.

If you have yet to listen to Steve's shows please do take a listen as he is one of the best UK soul radio presenters around with a 40 year pedigree.

Catch up with other SoulAndJazzFlavas podcasts at Mixcloud or from 27 Jun 2022 onwards Podbean

Playlist:

01 - Bob Baldwin feat Kathy Kosins - Let's Rewind (2022)

02 - Frank McComb - Instead (2022)

03 - Lindsey Webster - Stay With Me feat Randy Brecker

(Soul Jazz Mix)(2022 Reasons LP)

04 - Juanita Wynn - The One (2022)

05 - Miss Mojo - Crushin’ (2022 Horizon LP)

06 - Emanuel Harrold Feat. Crystal 'Crissy' Ransom & Tivon Pennicott

Brighter Days (2022 Funk La Soul EP)

07 - Val B King - Hold Me (2022 So Many Ways LP)

08 - Rebecca Jade - Show Me (2022)

09 - Nailah - my man (2022)

10 - Hil St - Soul - A Feeling So Beautiful (2022)

11 - Sharon Rae North - Moments feat Marion Meadows

(2022 Silhouette LP)

12 - Avery Sunshine - Don't Count Me Out

(2022 Four Songs & A Bootleg LP)

13 - Kyoto Jazz Massive Feat. Roy Ayes & Vanessa Freeman - Get Up

(Kaidi Tatham Remix) (2022 Message From A New Dawn LP)

14 - Ronald Isley, Beyonce & The Isley Bros -

Make Me Say It Again, Girl (2022)

15 - Princess Freesia - Forbidden Fruit (2022 Return To Pleasure LP)

16 - Natalie Duncan Feat Lauren Marshall - Found Myself (2022)

17 - Michael Dunston - So Sensitive (2022)

18 - Val B King - Gotta Find You (2022 So Many Ways LP)

19 - Karis Lovechild - LONELY (2022 Another Love Story LP)

20 - Indigo Marshall - Summer Nights (2022)

21 - Raja-Nee' - Tae My Breath (2022 The Sovereign of 14742 LP)

22 - Avery Sunshine - Lucky (2022 Four Songs & A Bootleg LP)

23 - Sharon Rae North Feat Arnetta Johnson -

You Make Me Wanna (2022 Silhouette LP)

24 - Midnight.Blue - Let Me In (2022 Breathe LP)

25 - Boney James - Coastin’ feat Lalah Hathaway (2022 Detour LP)

26 - Sound of SuperBad Feat. Joyce San Mateo - Loving You

(The 2am Mix) (2022 You're The Best Thing EP)

Gabrielle Gordon [2022] - Unimaginable [Self Released]

Gabrielle Gordon is a new 22 year old artist from Montego Bay (Jamaica), now living in Washington D.C. area, who released her first single "The Others" in Oct 2021. Her sophomore single in "Unimaginable" released today (30 Aug 2022).

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Details

Rating:	8.4
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	30/08/2022
Key/BPM:	10A/90
Price:	£1

JChosen [2022] - What U Came 4 [Household Name Entertainment / Jodae Entertainment] PROMO

Not one to rest on his laurels Saint Jaimz presents JChosen (aka Joshua Hunter) who is a singer, songwriter, actor originally from Albany, GA, on a new single "What U Came 4". It's just one of three songs available on an EP "The Chosen One" due out on Friday (2 Sep 2022).

As a child he was bred on a diet of Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, & Marvin Gaye records played by his mother.

Standing at 6ft 6ins he was a collegiate basketball player until an injury ended his career. He switched to music and was selected as a contestant on the The Voice Season 12 in 2017 getting four chair turns, within 45 seconds, on his blind audition for his rendition of Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing". The video (included below) has currently almost 3m views and, by all accounts, is the most viewed video for the season's YouTube page (which I can't find). Since his appearance on the show he has opened shows for Hi-Five, MYA, TANK, and Jagged Edge.

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Details

Rating:	8.2
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	New Soul / R&B
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Household Name Entertainment / Jodae Entertainment
Cat No:	None
Date:	02/09/2022
Key/BPM:	N/A
Price:	£1