Blues and Soul Music Magazine

Issue 1000

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ZEEP: ZEEP

ZEEP: ZEEP

Influences range from Brazilian pop, rock, soul and jazz, and the album skips from folky ballads to breezy R&B sambas, contemporary bossas and plain good pop tunes. But it's beat of Brazil that gives this album its drive and its identity...

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Sunkissed

VARIOUS: Sunkissed Mixed by G-Ha & Olanskii

This sixteen tracker features the latest electronic offerings from Norway...

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We Love

WE LOVE IBIZA: Mixed by Riton & Serge Santiago

Continuing to fly the UK flag and keeping its underground edge...

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Split Endz

NY: Split Endz: Volume 2

Perhaps this special unison between British R&B singer Ny and various UK grime artists was inspired by Fort Minor?

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Mesmer

TOM ARTHURS AND RICHARD FAIRHURST: Mesmer

Like a conversation, a game of chess or a debate in tongues that is comic and melancholy in equal measure...

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Universe

YESTERDAYS NEW QUINTET: Yesterdays Universe

You may well find proceedings a tad slow and bland at first but persevere...

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Soul Heroes

VARIOUS ARTISTS: Kelley’s Soul Heroes

This amazing compilation that will take you from the 60s to the early 80s...

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I am

CHRISETTE MICHELE: I Am

Chrisette Michele is a singer with roots caked in gospel and jazz...

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As Is...

AVISHAI COHEN: As Is… Live at the Blue Note’

Double-bassist and bandleader Avishai Cohen has a reputation for blistering live performances, presenting a hotter, more visceral style of jazz...

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Big City

BIG CITY: The City Never Sleeps

The hard-snapping drums, cheerily threatening riffs and rough party rhymes are all unmistakably Beatnuts...

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Soul Fridays
Xtraordinary People

Featured Club

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SINTILLATE @ CC Club (every Friday, 10pm-3.30am) London

It’s quite an achievement for a night to last five years in the volatile and competitive world of Central London clubbing. It’s even more impressive when it doesn’t sell out musically in order to achieve such a status.

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Featured Club

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WEEKENDS @ RB's, (Every Friday-Sunday, 10pm-late) Chester

They say variety is the spice of life. It’s also the key to ensuring a buzzing and lively clubbing environment, if the capacity numbers at RB’s in Chester are anything to go by.

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