Soul Strutter: 06/11/23

Sunday, 11 June 2023

J Treece & The Terri Green Project [2023] - Close The Door [Euro Musik]

The Terri Green Project should need little introduction as they have featured here many times but to recap they are Hamburg based songwriting and producer duo Terri Bjerre (aka Terri Green) and Torsten Abrolat (aka Todd Reed) who have scored four US Indie Soul and UK Soul chart #1 singles since 2019.

Joel Treece was born in Asheville, SC, but drew up in Baltimore, MD. He is a former US soldier who was stationed in Germany and made his way in the local music scene as a DJ and producer. Upon leaving the Army he became a member of Mirror Mirror who released a single in the early noughties.

He later moved into music production and formed his own company Treetop Entertainment and released around nine singles and a solo album "With Love" in Sep 2019 and is working on the follow up.

Joel met Terri Green via a mutual friend and came up with the idea of reinterpreting rather than covering Teddy P's classic Gamble & Huff song "Close The Door".

Posted from promo last week and now available on digital platforms from Friday (9 Jun '23).

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J Treece

Terri Green Project

Details

Rating:	8.6
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Retro Soul / Cover Version
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Euro Musik
Cat No:	None
Date:	09/06/2023
Key/BPM:	N/A
Price:	£1

Castella [2023] - Intoxicated Love [Self Released]

Castella follows up her last single "I Saw You" feat. saxophonist Marqueal Jordan in Jan '23 with an upbeat song "Intoxicated Love", co-written with her producer Jeff Canady, which was posted from promo last week and now released on Friday (9 Jun '23).

Castella is Cathy Rebecca Crowell-Thompson from Long Beach, CA, who left her full time job as an HR executive in 2020 after releasing her debut single "Mojito" in July 2019 to focus on her music career and now has 8 singles (plus 2 Christmas singles) and 2 EPs under her belt.

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Details

Rating:	8.3
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	New Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	09/06/2023
Key/BPM:	5A/109
Price:	£1

LeVelle [2023] - Promise To Love [SoNo Recording Group] (Full Album)

Having drip fed three singles from LeVelle's sophomore album "Promise To Love" ("Only If" (Mar '23) , "What Love Sounds Like" and "Work It Out" last month) the full album was released on Friday (9 Jun '23).

Included on the album is the remix of our favourite song from him, "Fell In Love" with Anthony Hamilton, taken from his debut album "My Journey Continues" which was pre-released as a single in Mar '22. If you haven't already, we recommend checking out the original mix of the song (music video below) which was one of our end of year selections in 2021 and still sounds great.

The new album is a solid set, without having any major standouts amongst the new songs, but our pick is "Always" with After 7.

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Details

Rating:	8.3
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	New Soul
Format:	Album
Media:	Digital
Label:	SoNo Recording Group
Cat No:	None
Date:	09/06/2023
Price:	£10.29

Kevin Oxberry [2023-06-09] - The Friday Night Rotation [Starpoint Radio]

This week's The Friday Night Rotation broadcast on 9th Jun 2023.

The Friday Night Rotation is broadcast each Friday hosted by Kevin Oxberry between 19:00-21:00 GMT on Starpoint Radio. The format of Kev's two hour shows is that the in the first hour and last half hour he plays upfront new releases and sandwiched in between for the first half hour of the second hour he digs out some oldies.

Catch up with previous shows on Podomatic.

Playlist:

Artist	Title / Album	Year
Hour 1 - UpFront
Terri Walker	You're Not Coming Home [My Love Story]	2023
Sipprell	Roam [Peace In The Madness]	2023
3rd Soul From The Sun	Tonight	2023
3rd Soul From The Sun	When Love Calls	2023
Dana Harper	Daydreaming	2023
Eeskra	Belong	2023
Maëva Borzakian	Nothing Or All [Lovin' Truth]	2023
Camera Soul feat. Sabreetha Vee	Shooting Star	2023
Jtreece & The Terri Green Project	Close The Door	2023
Output / Input	Someone I Used To Love	2023
Entice	Come Over [Flavas]	2023
RJ's Latest Arrival	One Step At A Time	2023
Joe Leavy feat. Althea Rene	Do It Again	2023
Will Downing	Till We Meet Again	2023
Castella	Intoxicated Love	2023
Hour 2 - Oldies
Roderick Drane	Jesus Is My Friend	2012
Dira feat. Omar	Let's Go Back [Something About The Girl]	2010
Angela Johnson feat. Raul Midon	I Promise (M.O.N.E.Y.) [Naturally Me]	2014
Emma Haywoode	Don't Poison Me	1991
Teena Marie	Main Squeeze [Passion Play]	1994
Will Downing	So You Wanna Be My Lover [Will Downing] (CD Bonus Track)	1988
Bobby Hutton	Loving You, Needing You, Loving You, Wanting You	1974
Hour 2 - UpFront
Cool Million feat. Shaila Prospere	Brand New Day	2023
Kim Tavar	Last Night [The Next Stage]	2023
Lynn Davis	Beautiful You	2023
Daughters Of Legacy	You Betta Know	2023
Entice	Just What I Like [Flavas]	2023
Don-E	Digah D Bump	2023
Helen Bruner & Terry Jones	You Got Me Feeling [2nd Overture]	2023

Steve Aggasild [2023-06-09] - Soul Struttin' [Soul Music Radio]

This Friday's "Soul Struttin'" show from Steve Aggasild on Soul Music Radio broadcast on 9th Jun 2023 between 21:00-23:00 GMT.

First hour classic oldies and second hour current sounds from 2023

Steve now does a show Fri 21:00-23:00 (GMT) on Soul Music Radio and two shows a week on SOTAR Sun 20:00-22:00 (GMT) and Wed 20:00-22:00 (GMT). If you have yet to listen then 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:

Artist	Title / Album	Year
Manu Dibango	Big Blow (1976)	1976
Roy Ayers	Love Will Bring Us Back Together Again [Fever]	1979
Loose Ends	Hangin' On A String (Contemplatin')	1985
Level 42	The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up) [Standing In The Light]	1983
Light Of The World	London Town [Round Trip]	1983
Martine Girault	Revival	1995
Mary J Blige	Be Happy [My Life]	1994
Mtume	Juicy Fruit [Juicy Fruit]	1983
Tashan	For The Sake Of Love [For The Sake Of Love]	1994
Stephanie Mills	What Cha Gonna Do With My Lovin' [What Cha Gonna Do With My Lovin']	1979
Teddy Pendergrass	Believe In Love (Phat Phili Mix)	1993
Princess Freesia	Oh! (The Sarsaparilla Mix)	2023
Papik feat. Nicole Magiolie	Montecarlo	2023
Joe Leavy feat. Althea Renee	Do It Again	2023
Jeff Bradshaw feat. Eric Roberson	Make Some Time	2023
Maeta feat. Free Nationals	Through The Night	2023
Output/Input feat. Antonio McLendon	Someone I Used To Love	2023
Angie Stone	Love The Feeling [Love Language]	2023
3rd Soul From The Sun	When Love Calls	2023
Lack Of Afro feat. Jack Tyson Charles	All Night	2023
Isla George	Be Kind to The People	2023
Say She She	Don't You Dare Stop	2023
Secret Night Gang	Out of My Head	2023
Nicola Conte feat. Zara McFarlane	Arise [Umoja]	2023

Entice [2023] - Flavas [Self Released] (Full Album)

An album we have resisted posting for the last couple of weeks is "Flavas" by Entice. Mainly because a lot of the songs sound dated (90s/00s) to our ears, so we weren't sure if this was a reissue or not.

It transpires that Entice are a working band from, in and around, Nashville, TN, based on the sextet of Eugene, Renee, Derel and Virgus Ewing, Ron Ballentine and Rick Ward who been in the music business for the past 15 years. For this album they have drafted in featured vocalist who are listed on the album cover.

The album "Flavas" would appear to be their debut release which consists of 18 original songs that are mainly written/co-written by Eugene Ewing. Some tracks been picked up for radio airplay, "Come Over" and "Just What I Like", in addition some of our recommended tracks would be "I Like The Way", "What's Going On", "Live My Life" and the closing track "Let's Ride" is a tight, George Benson'ish guitar led, jazz/funk instrumental.

The group plays corporate events, college campuses, weddings and other gigs and have an extensive list of cover songs that they perform at their shows, so are a hard working unit.

During their long career they have opened for The Gap Band, The Ohio Players, Dr. Hook, Midnight Star, Solo, Evelyn Champagne King, Bobby Blue Bland, Rick James, Cameo and many others.

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Details

Rating:	8
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	New Soul
Format:	Album
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	26/05/2023
Price:	£15.98