Soul Strutter: 05/16/24

Thursday, 16 May 2024

Steve Aggasild [2024-05-14] - SoulAndJazzFlavas [Panacea Radio]

Steve Aggasild's latest radio show (in conjunction with SoulStrutter) on Tuesday 14th May April 2024 on Panacea Radio with two hours of the best new soul releases.

Steve does a show on Panacea Radio between 20:00-22:00 (BST) each Tue and Fri 21:00-23:00 (BST) on Soul Music Radio.

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The Harlem Gospel Travelers [2024] - We Don't Love Enough [Colemine Records]

The new single from The Harlem Gospel Travelers dropped today along with their previous two singles "God's Love" (16 Apr) and "God's Been Good to Me" (19 Jun '23). With them being bundled together you may guess that there's an upcoming album, "Rhapsody", in Autumn.

The latest single is a cover of The Triumphs' "We Don't Love Enough" (Black Artists Co. 1970) which was originally a social commentary written to make a statement about the injustices of the music industry. The Travelers now sing its lyrics towards human rights.

We believe that it's the same L.A. based Triumphs who had a big Northern Soul tune "I'm Coming To Your Rescue" with a superb deep soul flip, "The World Owes Me A Lovin'", on Okeh in 1967. Although, the line-up may have been different by 1970 as we can't hear the female voice of Delilah Kennebruew (aka Delilah Moore) who pours her heart out on "The World Owes Me A Lovin'" which she wrote.

The Travelers, now consisting of Ifedayo Gatling, George Marage and Dennis Bailey, released their debut LP, "He's On Time", produced by Eli 'The Paper Boy' Reed, to rave reviews in 2019. Their follow up album "Look Up" arrived in Sep 2022.

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Details

Rating:	7.8
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Gospel Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Colemine Reords
Cat No:	None
Date:	16/05/2024
Key/BPM:	3B/98
Price:	£1 / £2.97 (all 3)

D'Sound [2024] - Get Used to It [daWorks Records]

Since their 25th anniversary album "25" in Jan '21, D'Sound have released two singles and reissued their 2003 album "Doublehearted" adding a dozen demos from 2002.

Their first release of 2024 is "Get Used To It" out today.

D'Sound are from Oslo, Norway and were formed in 1993 by drummer Kim Ofstad and bassist Jonny Sjo when they met at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. Their singer was Simone Eriksrud who left in 2018 but returned to record a couple of singles and perform live in 2022-23. They feature guest vocalists in her absence and New York's Autumn Rowe featured on the single "Right Now" (Apr '22).

As the new single is co-written by Ofstad, Sip and Erikstrud, we assume it's Erikstrud on lead vocals?

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Details

Rating:	8.3
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	New Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	daWorks Records
Cat No:	None
Date:	16/05/2024
Key/BPM:	3A/91
Price:	£1

The Opells [2024] - You Know I Love You b/w Day And Time [Numero Group #NUM4455]

Another rarity reissued digitally this week by Numero Group. A one-off single by The Opells on Linco with "You Know I Love You" and "Day And Time".

The label, run by Walter Grady out of Greensboro, NC, released around a dozen singles between 1969-74. This one was released in 1971.

The group, from Greenboro, recorded this one-off single whilst attending North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Two members survive A Lovett and lead singer Tom Smith (both from New York), James Steadman Jr. and Raleigh Bryant (aka Lil Fats) are now deceased.

Both sides were written by group member James Steadman Jr. The A side is a lowrider sweet soul harmony song (known to the lowrider community for some years) with the flip being more uptempo and funky.

Numero Group has the rights to the label and has released 20 plus from Grady's group of labels which includes Cobra, Witches Brew and others. So, if your looking for any from the labels, have a search as they may well have been reissued digitally.

This one seems virtually impossible to find on original vinyl as only one has ever sold on Discogs (£434) and none are available there for sale, and we can't find it listed at all on Popsike.

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Details

Rating:	8
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Sweet Soul Soul-/Funk
Format:	Single / Reissue
Media:	Digital
Label:	Numero Group
Cat No:	NUM4455
Date:	16/05/2024
Key/BPM:	8A/71 / 3A/121
Price:	£1.79

LaTasha Lee [2024] - He's So Easy To Love [Industry Music Group]

LaTasha Lee's latest offering released today digs up another dusty by Roddie Joy (real name Rita Coleman aka Rita Fortune) from 1965.

The Mike Lewis and Earline Phillips written song is "He's So Easy To Love" that was tucked away on the B side to "The La La Song" on Leiber & Stoller's Red Bird label.

Joy released three singles for the label before switching to Parkway in 1966 where she released another four before the label went bust in 1967. Nothing was recorded afterwards (in that name) so perhaps she settled down and had a family. However, Discogs states that she was also known as Rita Fortune who released a disco single "Sisters And Brothers" (Columbia 1974), which we're not sure sounds like her, but the connection with Mike Lewis and Stuart Weiner (who produced all her Red Bird singles) are there, so perhaps it is?

Joy's first single in 1965, "Come Back Baby" (also co-written by Lewis with Ricki Lisi), has had exposure on the rare soul scene and was covered the year after by The Stoppers on Jubilee along with a cover of "The La La Song". It was their only release.

We posted a couple of albums by Lee earlier this year, "Compositions of LaTasha Lee & Salih Williams" consisting of material that she only appears to have released via YouTube. The other was a reissue of her first album "LaTasha Lee & The Black Ties" in 2014. Both are no longer available as they seem to have been withdrawn from digital platforms.

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Rating:	7.8
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	60s Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Industry Music Group
Cat No:	None
Date:	16/05/2024
Key/BPM:	1B/103
Price:	£1

Assia Keva [2024] - Goodbye (Delf Remix) [Self Released]

A song by 19 year old Assia Keva Kamzah from Bali (Indonesia), "Goodbye" (that we posted on release in July '22) has been reissued along with a Delf Remix of it.

Delf is Wo Hin Fung Elphick, a DJ/producer from Hong Kong now living in NYC.

The remix takes the pace right up into dance territory but we have to say that we prefer the original version.

Assia won The Voice Kids Indonesia Season 3 when she was 12. Between 2019-2021 she went on a musical hiatus due to the pressure of winning the competition, but returned with her debut single "Goodbye" in 2022.

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Rating:	7.5 / 8.4
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Dance / Neo Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	03/05/2024
Key/BPM:	11A/124 / 11A/78
Price:	£1.98