Various - The Original Sound of New Orleans Soul 1966-1976For more than ten years Soul Jazz Records have been exploring and documenting the sound of New Orleans funk. Now they turn their attention to the flipside of this musical coin New Orleans soul. These two musical forms share a lineage that begins with the city's enormous rhythm and blues explosion in the post war 1940s and 1950s. New Orleans soul incorporated the soulful vocals of the gospel church, the driving beat of rhythm and blues, as well as

the songs tracing technological changes and social change

enclosed in an inner world of psychological distress

forgetting-to-eat-or-sleep love for the last 30 years of pop

including ‰ÛÏTraces

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San Francisco is still doomed

and when the release surfaced in 2000

as well as smashing SXSW on the dusty

While taking nothing away from Nirvana or from Sub Pop

" "You are not what you own

Their debut album ‰Û÷Conversations‰۪ displays the intricate construction and intimacy of The xx and the iridescent shimmer of Summer-defining indie pop