In 2003 Philadelphia Soul Legend Herb (I'm So Glad / Dampf Ain't) Johnson cut his final new song "Make You Wanna Holler," recorded with Finland's Soul Investigators and issued on the Timmion label. On January 19, 2004, Johnson lost his long battle with cancer at age of 68.

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Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators and Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings featured in the Portuguese "Ipsilon" Magazine

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SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGSIN UUTUUS JULKAISTAAN SUOMESSA

Soulia 1960-luvun hengessä soittavan newyorkilaisen Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kingsin uutuuslevy 100 Days, 100 Nights ilmestyy Suomessa 21. marraskuuta 2007. Levyn julkaisee helsinkiläinen Timmion Records. Jakelijana toimii Töölön Musiikkitukku.

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kingsin kolmas levy 100 Days, 100 Nights on läpimurto, jonka ansiosta pienen piirin kulttisuosikista on tullut hetkessä suositumpi kuin koskaan. Yhtyeen ansiosta tyylikäs soul-musiikki on jälleen kaikkien huulilla.

Solisti Sharon Jonesia on verrattu Irma Thomasin ja Etta Jamesin kaltaisiin soulin legendoihin. Jones löydettiin The Dap-Kingsin keulakuvaksi New Yorkin Rikers Islandin vankilasta, jossa hän työskenteli vanginvartijana. Jonesin laulajanura ei ottanut 1970-luvulla tuulta alleen, mutta nyt, yli viisikymppisenä, hän on uransa huipulla.

The Dap-Kingsin soittotaitoa ja tunnistettavaa soundia ovat hyödyntäneet pelkästään viimeisen vuoden aikana omissa projekteissaan Kanye Westin, Kenny Dopen ja Hank Shockleen (Public Enemy) kaltaiset tuottajat. Suurelle yleisölle yhtyeen soitto on tuttua Amy Winehousen hiteiltä "Rehab" ja "I'm No Good", joiden autenttinen 1960-luvun sointi on juuri The Dap-Kingsin ansiota.

Kuitenkin Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings on parhaimmillaan omillaan. 100 Days, 100 Nights on yhtyeen kolmas ja vahvin levy, jolla kaikki palaset tuntuvat loksahtaneen kohdalleen. Kahden edeltävän levyn rajut funk-rutistukset ovat takanapäin, ja nyt yhtye on keskittynyt rohkeasti entistä tinkimättömämpään soul-ilmaisuun.

100 Days, 100 Nights on nauhoitettu New Yorkin Brooklynissä perinteisin menetelmin, kokonaan analogisessa studiossa. Levyn on tuottanut Bosco Mann.

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings on esiintynyt Suomessa kahdesti.

Lisätietoja, haastattelupyynnöt & pressikuvat:
Päiviö Omwami 050-3458807
timmionpress@gmail.com
www.timmion.com
www.daptonerecords.com

Lisää aiheesta:
CNN: prison guard turns to singing (Video)
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/business/2007/10/17/velshi.life.after.work.cnn

MTV News: Sharon Jones is queen of the Dap-kings (Video)
http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1567452&vid=169799

100 Days, 100 Nights -kappaleen musiikkivideo:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8ouI5KcyHfE

Entertainment Weekly artikkeli:
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20057782,00.html

The New York Times artikkeli:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/29/arts/music/29jone.html?_r=2&ref=music&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

BIG JOE LOUIS & THE SOUL INVESTIGATORS
"GO-GO TRAIN (IS GONNA CARRY ME AWAY)"
"ROLLING DOWN THE TRACKS" (instr)
TIMMION-014 45RPM -7" SINGLE
TODAY’S SOUND IN BLUES – TODAY

Big Joe Louis sings true life deep blues songs - straight from the heart. Born and raised in Kingston Jamaica he has lived in London UK since the 1980s. A lover of gospel, soul, blues and reggae music.

Twice winner of "Best UK Male Blues Singer" award. Accompanied or recorded with Big Jack Johnson, Lazy Lester, Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes, Van Morrison, R L Burnside, Chick Willis. David "Honeyboy"Edwards, Big Lucky Carter, Rev Charlie Jackson, Homesick James, Big Bad Smitty, Bennie Smith and many, many more.

Now he’s teamed up with one of the best contemporary Soul/Funk groups on the scene today - The Soul Investigators - to bring you today’s sound in blues.

Vocals by: Big Joe Louis
Music by: The Soul Investigators Band
Produced by: Didier

CALYPSO KING & THE SOUL INVESTIGATORS
Home Cooking (CD/LP)
Timmion - 2002

Side 1:
1. Home Cooking
2. Mo' Hash
3. Greasy Pork
4. Greens Please
5. Midnight Bar-B-Q
6. Ti-Ki Tofu
7. Good Food

Side 2:
1. Home Cooking Part 2
2. Electric Cooker
3. Micro Popcorn
4. Deep Fried Chitlings
5. Momma's Gravy (Yum Yum)
6. Green Tea & Tobacco

Classic Instrumental album By The Soul Investigators

***/*** Martin Lawrie www.soulgeneration.co.uk
The Soul Investigators "Home cooking"
I missed this when it came out last year on limited CD so was delighted to get a copy of the LP to review. This has sat right at the front of my current play pile of LP's for about 2 months now getting spun from start to finish almost daily, and it just seems to get better and better the more you hear it... true the cover is pretty bad (I'll do your next cover for free chaps providing you keep the records coming) and the thought of an entire LP of instrumentals may seem slightly daunting at first.

The concept of the LP is firmly soul food and, well... food in general, you've got tracks about popcorn, gravy, bar-b-q's, pork, even the electric cooker is celebrated in song! The titles include "Mo' Hash", "Deep Fried Chitlings" and "Momma's Gravy"! Exactly the kind of stuff we like over here at SoulGeneration. Luckily the tracks live up to the promise of the titles and bearing in mind that the band also recorded last years Diddiers Sound Spectrum masterpiece you know that you're in for a treat. It's hard to pick out highlights as all the tracks are great but at a push i'd mention the percussion heavy "Micro PopCorn" with 'nuff chicken licks to get your wings well and truly flappin', "Momma's Gravy" a serious dancefloor destroyer complete with spy guitars, "Greasy Pork" borrows the opening riff from somewhere? is it "Jan Jan"? hmmm been buggin' me... "Greens Please" watch this one bring body poppin' back to the dancefloors! "Good Food" heavy on feel good vibrations and ass shake ingredients.

The whole album is absolutely wild www.soulcookers.com

Top producer team T-J and Didier shake hands after receiving gold record from germany.