Various - Black Fire! New Spirits!

Various - Black Fire! New Spirits!Soul Jazz Records' new release 'Black Fire! New Spirits!' is an album exploring deep, radical and spiritual jazz in the USA from 1957 1982. In the 1960s and into the 1970s jazz music in the USA was in an almost constant state of revolution, with the music and lives of African American artists radicalised by the advent of the civil rights movement, Black Power and a new spiritual awakening. For over 20 years now Soul Jazz Records have been exploring

selling over one million copies there despite only peaking at 58 on the Billboard 200

Three Sharps And A Flat That's The Rhythm 21

Hamish Kilgour has never released a proper solo album of his own

The band have toured with Sleigh Bells

andåÊ'Disaster Series'

From the odd tunings and drunken AC/DC riffing of Silence Kit - with its somber lyric of leaving the urban life behind - to the epic closing of Fillmore Jive - which begs us to say 'good night to the rock and roll era' Crooked Rain is an album of short stories

riffs that all can sing along to

great vinyl reissue at a sensible price

I Could Only See Clouds

's archival series

arriving on a wave of well-earned hype rooted in tight chops and a confident swagger

despite creating more than 40 songs in the process of writing the album (‰ÛÏSome of the song melodies and ideas on this may have even been written when I was 21 to be honest