Soul Strutter: 11/26/22

Saturday, 26 November 2022

Tortured Soul [2022] - Take the Day Off [Tstc Music] (Full Album)

Tortured Soul is a Brooklyn trio led by songwriter/drumer John-Christian Urich, who was with Cooly's Hot Box, and includes Jordan Scannella (bass) and Isamu MacGregor (keyboards).

They have recently celebrated their 20th anniversary and released their last single in Jul '22 "Your Body Doesn't Lie" with five mixes which is included on their new album "Take the Day Off" released 25 Nov '22.

It's essentially music for the dance floor inspired by house music.

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Rating:	8
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	New Soul
Format:	Album
Media:	Digital
Label:	Tstc Music
Cat No:	None
Date:	25/11/2022
Price:	£9.99

Karlos Edwards [2015] - Karlito's Way [i2 Records #i2CDA-001] (Full Album)

As mentioned in the Karlos Edwards post for his new single "With You" with Elle Cato, here's his 2015 album "Karlito's Way" which features Omar, Don-E, Natalie “The Floacist” Williams, Paul Johnson, Junior Giscombe and Chris Ballin as well as Mark Harrison.

These are all new, contemporary, takes on well known 70s/80s gems.

01 - In The Stone (EWF "I Am" 1979)

02 - Hold Me Tighter In The Rain (Billy Griffin "Be With Me" 1982)

feat. Junior Giscombe & Natalie "The Floacist" Williams

03 - Any Old Sunday (Chaka Khan "What Cha' Gonna Do For Me"

1981) feat. Paul Johnson & Natalie "The Floacist" Williams

04 - It's A Shame (The Spinners 1970)

05 - Daydreaming (Aretha Franklin "Young, Gifted And Black" 1972)

feat. Natalie “The Floacist” Williams

06 - I Need Your Loving (Teena Marie "Irons In The Fire" 1980)

07 - Keep On That Same Old Feeling

(Side Effect "What You Need" 1976 /

Crusaders "Those Southern Knights" 1976)

08 - Rising To The Top (Keni Burke "Changes" 1982)

09 - Love TKO (Teddy Pendergrass "TP" 1980)

10 - Velas (Quincy Jones "The Dude" 1981)

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Rating:	8.5
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	New Soul / Cover Versions
Format:	Album
Media:	CD
Label:	i2 Records
Cat No:	i2CDA-001
Date:	31/07/2015
Price:	£12

Karlos Edwards Feat. Elle Cato [2022] - With You [Digital Jukebox Records]

A superb new single alerted to me by Soul Groove Radio's Steve Agassild from Karlos Edwards featuring Croydon's Elle Cato on "With You" was released on 22 Nov. His only other single was released in April 2022, which is a cover of Stevie Wonder's "Sumer Soft" featuring Everett Peters, so I'll take the opportunity of post that as well.

Karlos is the younger brother of Junior and Philip Edwards who formed Paradise in the 80s who he performed with as percussionist. They remerged last year as Paradise Projex.

In 2015 he released a CD album "Karlito's Way" which is a London affair featuring Omar, Don-E, Natalie “The Floacist” Williams, Paul Johnson, Junior Giscombe and Chris Ballin and consisted of new takes on some 70s/80s classics which I'll post separately.

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Rating:	8.7
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Soul Jazz
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	22/11/2022
Key/BPM:	7A/105
Price:	£1

Ava Cherry [2022] - Love Shines So Bright [SedSoul Records]

Ava Cherry's career goes way back to 1972 when she met, and became involved with, David Bowie and became a backing vocalist for him and featured on his "Young Americans" album on which, an as yet unknown, Luther Vandross was also a backing singer.

She is back in 2022 on Cool Million's Sedsoul label with a new single "Love Shines So Bright" written by David A. Tobin and Cool Million's Rob Hardt.

She has released around five solo albums between 1980-97 and another in 2010 with her 1997 "Spend The Night" album reissued in 2021. From 2010 she self-released a number of singles and from 2020 four are available on DSP's including the latest one.

As well as Bowie, Ms Cherry has also appeared on albums with Gavin Christopher, Luther Vandross, Doc Powell, Paul Young, and Sly Stone amongst others and was also a backing singer for Chaka Khan.

This year also saw the publication of her autobiography "All That Glitters: The Ava Cherry Story".

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Rating:	8
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	New Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Sedsoul
Cat No:	None
Date:	25/11/2022
Key/BPM:	1B/103
Price:	£1