TAG: Daptone

Feb17

Charles Bradley, “The World (Is Going Up In Flames)” (MP3)

Charles Bradley is one of those voices that’s tough to even come close to because everytime he sings you feel like his tongue is coiling onto your wrist and winding you on the voyage that was his life. Charles was working a series of odd end jobs before someway, somehow at his golden youth was located and is now under the wings of the Daptone family. Charles Bradley’s cool, not retro and just right for the times. You can catch his spectacular debut album No Time For Dreaming out now and at SXSW.

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Sep08

Andreya Triana – Lost Where I Belong (Review)

Andreya Triana

Lost Where I Belong

Released by Ninja tune


The title of soulful South East London singer Andreya Triana’s debut album has nothing to do with her musical identity, but more to do with the brutal sides of being an artist. Known from her work with Bonobo, Aaron Jerome (SBTRKT) Flying Lotus, Theo Parrish and Mr Scruff, Triana is finally on her own. The album is produced by Bonobo with some help from Fink; two incredibly soulful and organic artists that fits Andreya’s style, and together they worked with live musicians creating timeless and contemporary music. The album ...

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Apr19

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings – I Learned the Hard Way (Review)

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings

I Learned the Hard Way

Released by Daptone


Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings are back with their fourth album I Learned the Hard Way. It’s another authentic, heart-felt album filled with heartache and daily struggles. It was produced by their own bandleader and bassist Gabriel “Bosco Mann” Roth and recorded in its entirety on an old Ampex eight-track tape. It wraps the record with a warmth and genuineness rarely found since the golden analog days of Stax Records. Sharon’s massive voice keeps getting stronger in her '50s, echoing the raw power of Tina Turner, the moaning soulfulness of Mavis Staples and the rhythmic swagger of James Brown. And with her background she speaks the truth. They’ve moved from the gritty funk to more mid-tempo and psychedelic soul.

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Mar03

The Souljazz Orchestra – Rising Sun (Review)

The Souljazz Orchestra

Rising Sun



The Souljazz Orchestra treat their dense stew of Latin rhythms, soulful brass and Ethiopian tonalities as if something light and easy like comfort food, not haute cuisine. The resulting music is less concerned with global hyphenations than it is a good groove, treating classic jazz much the same way Q-Tip did on Kamaal the Abstract: a means to an end, a set of tones to pull from liberally with the end being unabashed heat. Like a lot of the excellent music from the soul throwback label Daptone, Rising Sun ...

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Nov17

Various Artists – Daptone Gold (Review)

Daptone Roster

Daptone Gold

Released by Daptone Records


Soul's recent revival has been in part due to the soulmen and funkstresses at Daptone Records.  For about a decade, the small yet burgeoning NY label has made stellar projects featuring Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Lee Fields, Antibalas, Menahan Street Band and many more.  Each tangent of the empire has independently made noise, adding to the interest for vintage grooves and catapulting their own careers (resulting in collaborations with everyone from Amy Winehouse to Jay-Z among others).  While the label still reissues old lost records, Daptone Gold celebrates ...

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