Brothers and Sisters (Coloured Viny LP) Hip Hop

Brothers and Sisters (Coloured Viny LP) Hip HopSteve Mason releases his fifth solo album, Brothers and Sisters, on Double Six. His most open, honest and vibrant solo record to date, it marries the personal and the political but does so in an emotive and uplifting manner. Written against a backdrop of fear and uncertainty, and at a time when those in charge lurched from one disaster to the next mismanagement with increasing regularity, Brothers and Sisters is in fact an incredibly joyous, even

Lloyd Chambers etc

If that weren't enough

a cover of Art Neville's "All These Things" (in its original mix

as this is a monumental album of the finest modern jazz

Mauricio Smith (Tito Puente)

Pink Rhythm stretched out to create a 4 track EP of richly melodic

" as well as a gorgeous ballad performance of Duke Pearson's "You Know I Care" and a nimble swing through Cole Porter's "Night and Day

All threaded together across the album's often-affecting narrative

housed on their groundbeaking debut album 'Straight Out The Jungle'

Coltrane also plays a bit of soprano saxophone as a primer for his more exploratory work to follow

The cream of boogie funk

as poticial and cultural circumstances make the fluid transmission of musical ideas between the West and Arabia much more problematic