After many years and many many many phone calls later we’ve finally found the elusive and mysterious Andre Evans (0r Evons as he prefers). We’re proud to sign his material from the Evans Pyramid-era to our label and please look out for a release of all of the officially released Evans Pyramid material as well as some unreleased tracks. More info on the artist and this release coming soon!
Publicity photo of Andre
We feel very privileged and excited to be releasing this extraordinary 2-sider of deep soul with amazing drums. You all know the story of how Mark Taylor uncovered many of the recordings and releases from the Fine Recording Studio in Rochester, New York. You also may remember how quickly the original copies Mark had left sold out. Well now is your chance to get your own copy or two! Coming out on February 21st, you can pre-order now at our Bigcartel store for $9.99. Special thanks for PJ Gray of Galactic Fractures! Look for his interview with the group coming soon!
I Don’t Think I’ll Ever Love Another
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And I Love You
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It’s simple just purchase our latest release, World’s Funkiest Covers on LP or CD directly from us and you’ll be automatically entered into our contest to win a limited edition World’s Funkiest Covers T-shirt, featured above. You must make the purchase by December 21st and through our website at in order to enter the contest:
http://culturesofsoul.bigcartel.com/product/world-s-funkiest-covers-lp
And the winner is…..
Andy Buchonet
Congrats Andy and thanks to all of those that entered the contest and thanks for all of your support in 2011! (Updated 12/26/11)
Just in time for the holidays we’ve got some great T-shirts for sale. Printed by our good friends at AntiDesigns. We’ve got to two different versions. One with our logo and the other with World’s Funkiest Covers album cover created by Zach Ohora.
You can purchase them at our store, Cultures of Soul Bigcartel. Available for a limited time only.
As mentioned before we’ve got many release parties scheduled for the World’s Funkiest Covers across the world! And in our own backyard we’ve got some great parties scheduled as well.
Coming up first on Friday, November 18th at the Good Life. Our own Deano Sounds will be DJing and warming up the crowd for underground hip hop star, 9th Wonder.
On Saturday, November 19th at ZuZu’s Claude Money and Deano Sounds will be holding court at Soul Le Lu Jah making the Soulsters dance to funky covers and classic soul!
Free giveaways including swag and promo copies of the album. See you there!
Some very fine DJ Soul Nights are sponsoring our release and throwing release parties for us! There will be prizes and great music for all! Check them out in your town!
Title Town Pittsburgh October 29th
Devil’s Pie Sponsored by Oliver Wang – Soul Sides Los Angeles November 16th
Good Life featuring Deano Sounds Boston November 18th
Soul Le Lu Jah featuring Deano Sounds Boston November 19th
Planet Booga Lucern, Switzerland November 25th
Version Excursion London November 26th
Sycamore featuring E’s E and Monk-One Brooklyn December 16th
Cultures of Soul is proud to present our first compilation, World’s Funkiest Covers! The CD is hitting your local stores on October 25th and the LP will be in stores on November 15th! Check out the audio preview and the tracklisting below! You can pre-order at our store at Bigcartel.
World’s Funkiest Covers Preview by Culturesofsoul
Tracklisting:
1. Johnny Jones and the King Casuals – Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
2. Mighty Mo and the Winchester Seven – The Next Message (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five)
3. Afrosound – Jungle Fever (chakachas)
4. Fruko y sus Tesos – Bang Bang (New Swing Sextet)
5. Nostalgia 77 – Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes)
6. Ray Barretto – Pastime Paradise (Stevie Wonder)
7. Mongo Santamaria – Cloud Nine (The Temptations)
8. Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra – I Turn My Camera On (Spoon)
9. Ebony Rhythm Band – Light My Fire (The Doors)
10. The Johnny Frigo Sextet – Scorpio (Dennis Coffey) * (CD bonus track)
11. Antibalas – Rat Race (Bob Marley) * (Cd bonus track)
Cultures of Soul is profiled in this month’s ABS Magazine! This is France’s premier magazine for Blues, Soul, and R&B!
If you are in the Somerville area this Sunday stop by the Independent for Cultures of Soul Giveaways and hear DJs Deano Sounds and Jay spin rare and classic soul, early R&B rockers, mambo beats, garage, and dare I say Tittyshakers!
Also we will be premiering our next Cultures of Soul 7inch release coming out in October! Besides all of this the Indo has excellent food, cocktails, and fine craft brews! More info here.
This is the definitive history of Northern Soul written by someone witnessed the scene from the beginning to today’s northern soul clubs. David Nowell takes you on a first hand journey from the early days at the Twisted Wheel to the last night at the Wigan Casino to today’s big monthly events! You can pick it up in our store at Cultures of Soul Bigcartel. You can also enter a contest to win a copy by “Liking” us on our facebook page.