FROOTFUL: Fish In The Sea – 2010

FROOTFUL: Fish In The Sea – 2010
In which we find a record label (Freestyle) more typically known for their funk output delve slightly further back into the past with their championing of Frootful whose Fish In The Sea channels original stomping early-sixties’ rnb with convincing proficiency. I’m not suggesting for a minute that ‘funk fatigue’ has set in at Freestyle Towers – we all know where that leads - that’s right – rockabilly- er - I mean jump blues (stand up Keb Darge, Andy Smith and Cut Chemist)…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

SMOOVE & TURRELL: Antique Soul – 2009 – Album review

SMOOVE & TURRELL: Antique Soul – 2009 – Album review
HIGHLIGHTS: Hammond – I Can’t Give You Up – Beggarman – Don’t Go
SOUNDBITE: “Yeah, yeah, feel the crunch, get to the beggarman’s disco”
RATING: 4/5
Take a couple of blokes who could pass for those two Geordie builders who drink in your local, put them together in a studio and what do you get? If the two in question are Smoove and Turrell the answer isn’t a new stud wall and the faint whiff of battered Mars bars but Antique Soul. In other words a heavyweight northern soul-influenced collaboration with the gritty credibility that other nu-soul pairing Mark Ronson and Daniel Merriweather just can’t seem to muster and more crossover power than Moses at the Red Sea. Because when this is on, it’s really on.

On the one hand you’ve got…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM