Dara Tucker [2023] - Dara Starr Tucker [Green Hill Productions] (Full Album)

Our good friend Roger Soulsorts Williams just contacted us to ask if we'd posted this new album by Dara Tucker yet ... and we hadn't so will quickly rectify the situation.

The latest album "Dara Starr Tucker" is Ms Tucker's seventh studio album, in addition she has released a live album.

The album includes several covers including  "Annie's Song" (John Denver), "Everything I Wanted" (Billie Eilish), "Can We Pretend" (Bill Withers), the Weill & Anderson standard "September Song", "Try To Remember" (Tom Jones) and a traditional gospel song "A Closer Walk With Thee" along with the remaining six original songs.

Dara was born in Oklahoma into a religious and musical family. Her parents were minister and gospel recording artist Doyle Tucker and singer Lydna Tucker, both now deceased in 2014 and Dara chronicled their loss on her 2017 album "Oklahoma Rain".

She began song writing in 2003 whilst living in Switzerland and moved to Nashville in 2004 to pursue a career in music, releasing her first album in 2009.

Mr Soulsorts highlighted three tracks for us "Scars", "If You Asked Me" and "Can We Pretend" (Bill Withers) (you may remember the song was also covered last year by the UK's Ciyo Brown as the title track of his seventh album). In addition we would also include "Falling".

Roger also relayed that Dara contacted him during lock down asking if he could restore an album cover (for those that don't know, Roger is a graphic designer by profession and does artwork for many artists/labels as a side hustle) for a rare album Joy "I Feel The Spirit" (recorded by her family and originally released in 1979) so that it could be reissued it digitally.

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Rating:	8.4
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Soul Jazz
Format:	Album
Media:	Digital / CD
Label:	Green Hill Productions
Cat No:	None
Date:	02/06/2023
Price:	£10.29 / £16.51

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Ashia Vu [2023] - No Energy [Music With Meaning] (Full Album)

Since Feb '23 Ashia Vu has been dripping singles each month all with the same artwork, so it's no big surprise that she has released her debut album "No Energy" today which contains her last four singles plus another four new songs. 

However, with an intro and a prelude, it leaves actually just two new songs, the last two tracks. All are explicit except one of the singles "Summer".

Our choice cut is her first single of 2023 "Whatever I Guess?" (8 Feb '23).

Other than the new album and four singles, the New York artist has released just two singles and a four track EP "Mixed Emotions" since 2019.

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Rating:	7.8
Explicit:	Y All except Track 4
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Music With Meaning
Cat No:	None
Date:	30/06/2023
Price:	£4.99

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Auraè [2023] - 7:7 [Brightstar Recordings]

Jada Auraè Postell's latest single is "7:7". She featured here with her last release, a six track EP  "Lead Me", which was only her fourth release having previously released two singles in 2021 and another in Feb '23. 

We are still unable to find any information about the artist who states on her social media that she's a Christian music artist. All songs are self-written, some in collaboration with other writers. 

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Rating:	8
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Brightstar Recordings
Cat No:	None
Date:	26/06/2023
Key/BPM:	4B/79
Price:	£1

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G'emma [2023] - no worries [Self Released]

Another artist new to these pages is G'emma (Emilie Nguimba) who is from Germany (Berlin via Osnabrück) .

She released her seventh single "no worries" on 9 Jun and also has a six track EP "Types Of Water" to her name since 2019.

The new single also includes an "intro" and we believe that they, along with her last two singles, will feature on a forthcoming EP/album titled "resigned".

Unsurprisingly, perhaps, she lists Erykah Badu, Amy Winehouse and Ella Fitzgerald as some of the artist she gets inspiration from.

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Rating:	7.9
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	09/06/2023
Key/BPM:	5A/70
Price:	£1

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Freya [2023] - Dunno How to Love [Self Released]

A sophomore single from East London's Freya White is "Dunno How To Love" which follows "Land Back On Earth" on 1 Feb '23. 

It has a neo soul/jazz feel and another that has a rock guitar creep in (along with some sax) towards the end, an emerging trend?

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Details

Rating:	8.1
Explicit:	Y
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	26/06/2023
Key/BPM:	9B/60
Price:	£1

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