Soul

The legendary release by Ronnie April's Positive Energy.

It happens at times that a stone cold classic from a bygone era gets rediscovered. But how often does that rediscovery happen when the band is still around? And how often does it lead to a new album? That’s the surprising circumstance behind the Staples Jr. Singers’ long-awaited second album, Searching (out June 14).

Sampled by Kanye and Tyler The Creator

Exclusive / Reissue : Manu Dibango is probably the most famous musician from Cameroon and quite possibly one of the most internationally well-known African musicians ever.

Following the recent release of Dee C Lee’s latest single, Walk Away, Acid Jazz Records release Just Something, Dee’s first album since 1998.

Soul Portrait is a slice of Southern-fried soul, a blend of beat ballads and dancers.

The Newport Jazz Festival had always brought the best out in Nina Simone.

Wildfire was a household name in Tropical Island music circles due to their excellent albums and performances throughout Trinidad, Tobago, the Caribbean and US Virgin Islands and French Guadeloupe.

The Collected album by the Carpenters brings a beautiful collection from the immense popular soft-pop duo. From their humble beginnings in the late '60s until today, siblings Karen and Richard Carpenter are one of the most successful duos in musical history.

The American funk/soul band Commodores peaked in the late 1970s through the mid-1980s with some wonderful hit classics, like 'Just to Be Close to You', 'Easy', 'Three Times a Lady', 'Still' and 'Lady (You Bring Me Up)'.

London-based vocalist, songwriter, and producer Lynda Dawn returns with her signature blend of classic soul grooves and contemporary R&B

They don't come anymore classic than this.

Headed by the great Curtis Mayfield, The Impressions provided a critical link between '50s R&B and '60s soul.

"Oh hell! This is this year's touch of self indulgence", Dean Rudland compiler of many a dancefloor friendly compilation, both here and at previous places of fitful employment such as Blue Note and Acid Jazz, is trying to explain his latest BGP release.

Making Music is available as a limited edition of 3000 individually numbered copies on translucent red vinyl and includes an 8-page booklet.

The final album in Pastor T.L. Barrett’s 1970s four-part suite of gospel funk LPs, Do Not Pass Me By finds the fiery preacher getting spaced out on God’s love.

In 2005, while making his Saturday morning yard sale rounds around town, collector Blake Oliver stumbled upon a box of curiously marked tapes.

This getaway ride mixtape strips aesthetics from the timeless East Side Story series, and poaches music from the greater Chesapeake Bay region. Roll with a jacked-up masterpiece.

What exactly is Spiritual Soul anyway? At the confluence of congas and Fender Rhodes, the Civil Rights Movement and vegetarianism, jazz-funk and gospel-soul, a Black-to-the-land movement in song sprung forth in the 1970s.

Reissue of the legendary debut album from Magic In Threes.

Reissue of the legendary second album from Magic In Threes.

In 1963, Sam Cooke, the true inventor and King of Soul, recorded the album Night Beat, which was bluesier and moodier than anything we had heard from Cooke before. If Sam Cooke had lived longer, we might have had more music of this rare quality. As it stands, we must make do with the treasures he left behind

In 1965 in the face of social unrest, legendary Memphis label Stax Records put on two pulsating shows at the 5-4 Ballroom in Los Angeles, featuring Rufus Thomas, Booker T. and the M.G.’s, William Bell, Carla Thomas, Wilson Picket and more. 60 years later the recordings, newly mastered by Joe Tarantino, with lacquers cut by Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl, have been collected with a bonus set of performances recorded at Club Paradise, Memphis to form Stax Revue – Live In ’65!.

A dazzling 11-track journey through the rich, handpicked gems of Numero’s finest.

Jujus / Alchemy of the Blues is Sarah Webster Fabio's third album for Folkways. 

Keep Your Soul Together” (1973) is Freddie Hubbard’s fifth studio album released on Creed Taylor’s CTI label.

Track Listing Sweet Music, Soft Lights and You Now Is the Time for Love Pt. 1 I'll See You in Hell First Love Highjacker I Can Fly It Hurts So Good See Saw Affair Lightin' Up Three Lonely Guys Spells & Incantations (With Debbie Lindsay) Midnight Affair When I Had You, Baby

Rare Seventies Big City Street Soul

Embraced in the early 90s by Britain’s rare groove scene and later sampled by Digable Planets and Jay-Z, Ghetto: Misfortune’s Wealth has since been known as 24-Carat Black’s first and final chapter, barely a footnote in the well documented history of Stax.

Mavis Staples is the debut solo studio by American rhythm and blues and gospel singer Mavis Staples. It was released on June 16, 1969, by Volt Records.

Arthur Conley’s album was released on 15th September 1967.

40th anniversary remastered edition of the classic soul album from 1981.

Today's club culture all started with Northern Soul and its roots in the Mod all-nighter scene of London clubs.

The rhythms belong to the modern world, the slow, shimmering grooves undeniably Womack's, as he's been specializing in this sound since the turn of the '70s.

Athens Of The North have released previously unreleased material from this time, and here we continue to preserve Bobby Boyd's unique legacy and bring his music to a wider audience.

Fulfillingness' First Finale is his 1974 album; widely considered one of the albums from his 'classic period'.

A sonic snapshot of America’s steel capital, developed in the prosperous cavern between the departure of the Jackson 5 to Motown and the collapse of U.S. Steel, Skyway Soul is a love letter to Gary, Indiana.

What'd I Say is the fifth studio album recorded by Ray Charles, and was released in 1959.

Legendary American musician Brian Jackson announces his first solo album in over 20 years, produced by Phenomenal Handclap Band founder Daniel Collás and released on BBE Music. 

Glenn Fallows and Mark Treffel released their first album, 'The Globeflower Master Volume 1', on Mr Bongo in September 2021. With its lush, warm and timeless productions paying homage to classic 60s and 70s soundtrack composers, it was very well received and struck a chord with the scene's connoisseurs.

The brothers Joe, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael Jackson formed the pop band the Jackson 5 in 1964. In 1968 they signed with Motown Records and became the first group to debut with four consecutive number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including “ABC”.