Soul Strutter: 03/03/23

Friday, 3 March 2023

Meredith Louise [2023] - Mind Frame [Self Released]

The sophomore single from Australian neo-soul songstress Meredith Louise "Mind Frame" is released today (3 Mar '23). It follows her debut "No More Hiding" (May '22), both of which will feature on her debut EP "Mind Frame" set for release on 31 Mar '23.

Produced by Josh Eastman (Helm Studios) and mixed and mastered by Sam Brawner (Moonchild, Mac Ayres, Raquel Rodriguez), "Mind Frame" is a sonic blend of jazz, R&B and pop, creating a distinctive sound that compliments its empowering message of self-determination.

Meredith Louise Hartley is a singer, songwriter, musician and registered music therapist from Melbourne, Australia, currently residing in Vancouver, Canada. She writes songs about people, places and landscapes, and how we can find our way back to our truth. She describes her music as "combining infectious grooves with words that make you think, creating a sonic tapestry of jazz, neo-soul, R&B, and folk with strong vocals and colourful lyrics create rich imagery that takes the listener on a journey into the human condition".

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Rating:	8.2
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Soul Jazz / Blue-Eyed
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	03/03/2023
Key/BPM:	6B/95
Price:	£1

Tristan [2023] - Seven [Isolde Records] (Full Album)

Five-piece Dutch soul band Tristan have released their seventh album, aptly titled "Seven", today (3 Mar 2023). We posted samples earlier in the week but now here's the full album.

The album is available digitally as well as on CD and vinyl, available through Simply Soul.

A few singles have already been pre-released, the lead single "Something Like This" from it last September, the second single "Shadows In The Moonlight" on 27 Jan '23 and the third and final single "Diamonds" last Friday (24 Feb). It follows "What Could Possibly Go Wrong" from April 2021.

The line-up consists of Jaycilee Teterissa (vocals), Coen Molenaar (keys), Frans Vollink (bass), Sebastiaan Cornelissen (drums), Guy Nikkels (guitar).

There are several outstanding new tracks including "Tell Me", "Burned Chicken", "New Dawn Rises" and "Another Season" in particular.

The band will be touring Europe this summer with dates in The Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Belgium and UK to promote the album. UK dates include:

7 Jun - London, Pizza Express

8 Jun - Southampton, The Brook

9 Jun - Ambleside, Zeffirelli's

10 Jun - Brighton, Verdict Jazz

11 Jun - Colchester, Colchester Arts Centre

28 Sep - Swansea, Jazzland

30 Sep - London, Hampstead Jazz Club

Full schedule with links to tickets available on Tristan website

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Details

Rating:	8.6
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	New Soul
Format:	Album
Media:	Digital
Label:	Isolde Records
Cat No:	None
Date:	03/03/2023
Price:	£8.99

Myles Sanko [2023] - Live at Philharmonie Luxembourg [Légère Recordings] (Full Album)

Myles Sanko is a class act who sounds like a blend of Bill Withers and Gregory Porter to these ears. He has a new live album out today "Live at Philharmonie Luxembourg" which features ten songs with orchestral arrangements by Gast Waltzing and Peter Hinderthür and appears to based around his 2016 album "Just Being Me".

It includes favourites such as "Come On Home", "High On You" and classics like "Just Being Me" and "Forever Dreaming" and will be available on vinyl LP, CD and digital formats.

Having released four studio albums to date, it is his first live album recorded (and filmed) live to a sold-out auditorium at Philharmonie in Luxembourg. He is accompanied by his trusted soul/jazz sextet, pianist Tom O’Grady (piano), Jon Mapp (bass), Rick Hudson (drums), Phil Stevenson, (guitar), Gareth Lumbers (sax/flute) and Sam Ewens (trumpet/flugelhorn) along with the 70-piece Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra led by Grammy Award winning conductor Gast Waltzing.

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Rating:	8.7
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Soul Jazz
Format:	Album / Live
Media:	Digital / CD / Vinyl
Label:	Légère Recordings
Cat No:	None
Date:	03/03/2023
Price:	£N/A / £13.99 /£26.25

Pink Sweat$ [2023] - Ain't No Sunshine [Atlantic]

Probably not one for the purists, but the new single from Pink Sweat$ (David Bowden from Philadelphia) is a cover of Bill Wither's classic "Ain't No Sunshine" taken from an upcoming biographical film "Spinning Gold" which is due to hit theatres on 31 Mar '23. It is the story of former Buddah record executive Neil Bogart who formed Casablanca Records in 1973.

The film is written and directed by Bogart's son Timothy Scott Bogart as Bogart died in 1982 aged only 39. As we have reported previously, the movie stars Ledisi playing Gladys Knight.

Why a Withers song? Well "Ain't No Sunshine" was originally released as the B side to "Harlem" on Sussex Records in 1971 and the label was distributed by Buddah I guess, although the record was release by A&M in the UK.

It's the first track to be released from the soundtrack which will be released the same day as the movie (i.e. 31 Mar '23).

I was gong to direct you to the Amazon listing by clicking on image for full track listing but it doesn't give the artists, so here is the full track listing with many familiar songs but all cover versions? Pink Sweat$ aloo records another two of Withers' songs, but sadly Ledisi only features on one, a cover of Gladys Knight & The Pips.

01 - It’s Your Thing - Jason Derulo

02 - Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker) - Wiz Khalifa

03 - Shout It Out Loud - Sam Harris and Casey Likes

04 - Bad Girls - Tayla Parx

05 - Midnight Train To Georgia - Ledisi

06 - Ain’t No Sunshine - Pink Sweat$

07 - Love To Love You Baby - Tayla Parx

08 - Rock And Roll All Nite - Sam Harris and Casey Likes

09 - Cherry On Top - Performed by Jeremy Jordan

10 - One Toke Over The Line - Alec Benjamin

11 - Lean On Me - Pink Sweat$

12 - Dim All The Lights - Tayla Parx

13 - Mothership Connection - Wiz Khalifa

14 - Ooh Child - Trevis Romell Harris

15 - Oh Happy Day - Jeremy Jordan

16 - Who Is He (And What Is He To You) - Pink Sweat$

17 - Beth - Alex Gaskarth

18 - Last Dance - Jeremy Jordan and Tayla Parx

19 - Greatest Time (Spinning Gold) - Jeremy Jordan and Cast

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Details

Rating:	7.8
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	New Soul / Cover Version
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Atlantic
Cat No:	None
Date:	03/03/2023
Key/BPM:	9A/78
Price:	£1

Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints [2023] - One Night of the Week [Dala Records]

The new single from Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints posted yesterday from YouTube is released today, so here's the Spotify track along with link to Amazon.

We were first introduced to Bobby Harden back in May 2020 and a did a feature on him, so for background information click on this link.

He's been around since at least the 80s and was inducted into The New York Blues Hall Of Fame in 2013. Born in Youngstown, OH, he moved Houston and then New York and took over from Eddie Floyd as lead singer for The Original Blues Brothers Band which is led by Stax legend Steve Cropper and Lou Marini who released "The Last Shade Of Blue Before Dark" in 2017.

Last year he released, what is now regarded as, a future modern soul classic "Feels So Good" with his group The Soulful Saints on Brooklyn's Dala Records. The label was set up by Billy Aukstik (formerly of Daptone) in 2015. Aukstik released his own material as Billy the Kid & The Soulful Saints on the label. Billy met Bobby through a mutual friend in the Autumn of 2017 not long after the death of Charles Bradley, Aukstik was Bradley's trumpeter.

On 12 May '23 Harden has a ten track debut album set for release, "Bridge Of Love", which will also be available on vinyl and CD. To launch the album the a new single "One Night of the Week" has been released digitally today (3 Mar '23).

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Rating:	8.5
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Retro Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Dala Records
Cat No:	None
Date:	03/03/2023
Key/BPM:	8B/116
Price:	£1