Tag: Big Crown Records
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Thee Marloes – Logika – Big Crown Records
Maybe it has something to do with reviewing a Burt Bacharach album last night but this romantically inclined number from Thee Marloes feels too perfectly pitched between Soul and daydreams to be missed. Driven at an easy pace the sunshine instrumentation is both emotionally resonate and funky as you like, while the vocal tastes just…
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Surprise Chef – Rosemary Hemphill – Big Crown Records
I love this. It combines almost all of my favourite influences into one syllable. Setting the scene with curiosity as cinema brushes against the haunt of ambience intertwined by reflections of Jazz and Blues, chord structure and lose affiliations breathing as one. Very nice bass playing too as shuffling rhythms, keys and vibes drift across…
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Holy Hive – Float Back To You – Big Crown Records
The first word that came to mind when listening to the opening number, Broom was coincidently, swoon. Funny as I’m not always a fan of falsetto but in this case, aided by the sumptuous instrumentation, it’s all too tempting not to love wholeheartedly. The album continues apace with more of that easy-swing informing the music…
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Lee Fields & The Expressions – It Rains Love – Big Crown Records
Sometimes music is so joyous you just can’t ignore it. Lee Fields sings his heart out with a passion reserved only for a chosen few and aged 68 that blows most others out of the water. This song of yearning will strike a chord with anyone and everyone on the planet, comes punctuated by rolling…