Soul Strutter: 03/01/23

Wednesday, 1 March 2023

Soul Associates Top 30 Playlist - 2023 Week 8 (w/e 26 Feb 2023)

The Soul Associates Top 30

Week 8 2023 (w/e 26 Feb 2023)

Note: three tracks are not yet available on Spotify as they are only currently available on promo i.e. #14 B & The Family Feat. Antonio McLendon "Forever", #15 Brian Power Feat. Roachford "Got To Be (Soul Mix)" and #21 Natasha Watts "Brighter Days".

Natasha Watts is offering her new single for free from her website to help launch her forthcoming album "Music Is My Life" due on 24 Mar '23. Just click this link to her website.

Thee Sacred Souls [2023] - Thee Sacred Souls on Audiotree Live (Live) [Audiotree] (LIVE VIDEO)

A live set of six songs by Thee Sacred Souls on Audiotree is released today with a video premiering on YouTube at 18:00 GMT.

The first four songs featured on their debut self-titled album in Aug '22 with two songs which have featured on singles beforehand.

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Details

Rating:	8.5
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Retro Soul / Sweet Soul
Format:	EP
Media:	Digital
Label:	Audiotree
Cat No:	None
Date:	01/03/2023
Price:	£5.94

Nefer [2023] - Welcome to my Spaceshift [Overjazzed Records] (Full Album)

Nefer is a Melbourne based singer originally from from Vaureal (Paris) who grew up in a French- Haitian environment.

She attended the Conservatory Of Music, Dance And Theater of Cergy-Pontoise where she received a classical training.

Her debut release is an album, "Welcome to my Spaceshift" out today which seems to use samples on a number of tracks. The most obvious being Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes' "Wake Up Everybody" on "Ludes" but I seem to recognise something from the next track "Forever Friends" which isn't coming to me. (UPDATE: Leigh 'The Flava' Taylor has put me out of my misery as "Forever Friends" samples Eddie Kendricks' "Intimate Friends")

Given that the name Jessica GUIRAND appears on credits for all songs would guess that is her real name.

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Details

Rating:	7.6
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Overjazzed Records
Cat No:	None
Date:	01/03/2023
Price:	£7.99

Lauren Elysse [2023] - They Call Me LO [Self Released] (Full Album)

This looks like only the third release from Lauren Elysse after two singles last year. Her debut album "They Call Me LO" is out today and doesn't include the two previous singles.

One for the neo/future soul lovers with "Lovers Land", "TYD" and "Lets' Play" probably being the key tracks but needs a few more listens.

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Details

Rating:	7.6
Explicit:	Y Tracks 5,6,8 & 9
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format:	Album
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	01/03/2023
Price:	£9.90

Shann Aberdeen [2023] - Prayers 4 You [Self Released]

Shann Aberdeen, is a relatively new artist from Toronto who featured here with her last single "Transition" in Nov '22 which included a live video of an, as yet, unreleased song "Home".

Her new single "Prayers 4 You" is out today and contains a backing/sample we first came across on W3sst's "Midnite" on his album "Runnin'" in April 2021 and has featured on at least another couple of tracks since, such as Sean Kenneally "No Need" a year later in April '22 which no longer seems to be available.

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Details

Rating:	8.5
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	01/03/2023
Key/BPM:	6B/63
Price:	£1

Adi Oasis Feat. Leven Kali [2023] - Naked [Unity Records]

The next album "Lotus Flow" from Adi Oasis is dropping on Friday (3 Mar '23) which has seen around four singles pre-released ("Red To Violet" (Aug '22), "Got It Get It" (Oct '22), "Adonis" (Nov '22), "Multiply" (Jan '23)) and now another featuring Leven Kail, "Naked", today.

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Details

Rating:	7.7
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Unity Records
Cat No:	None
Date:	01/03/2023
Key/BPM:	4A/82
Price:	£1

Cornell C.C. Carter [2023] - That Feelin (DJ Mystique Remix) [Self Released]

Yesterday we posted a DJ Mystique Remix for October London's "Make Me Wanna" which has had a lot of views/listens.

We follow it today with another for a Cornell C.C. Carter song "That Feelin'" taken from his 2018 "One Love" album which was also released as a single.

Details

Rating:	8.3
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	New Soul / Remix
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	27/02/2023
Key/BPM:	N/A
Price:	£not available