Back in October we spent some time at Q Division Studios with Stanton Davis working on mixing down some of the unreleased material recorded during Brighter Days sessions. There is plenty of interesting and vastly different versions of songs from the album along with some unheard compositions including the mystical and spiritual “Odwalla” and “Delta Six.” More details to come soon so stay tuned!

Delta Six

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Odwalla

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We’ve got a funky pack for you! Coming out early in the spring on CD and LP is this great raw Nigerian funk album from the C.S. Crew. It also includes 3 tracks from Youths of Universe with liner notes written by Comb and Razor label owner and Nigerian record collector extraordinaire, Uchenna Ikonne. Here’s a few clips from the album. Pre-order details coming soon!

Love is Peace

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Freaky Funkyfied Fix

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The holiday season is here and we’d like to give something back so we are offering 20% off your entire purchase. This includes all items in the store. Just enter promo code HOL20 when you check out. Go to our store  at Culturesofsoul.bigcartel.com.

For a very limited time we are offering all three 7 inches in the Holy Grail Series for only $18. If you were to buy them all individual it would be over $25 and if you were to purchase the originals you’d be looking at over $2.5K if you can find them anywhere.  Included are:

Darling Dears

Roy Roberts

Cosmos Universal Band

It sounds like Stevie Wonder, looks like Stevie Wonder, and smells like Stevie Wonder so it must be Stevie Wonder, right? Well not in this case.  Our next 7 inch soul release is a pair of unbelievable tracks by Detroit soul singer, Emanuel Taylor. The A-side, “You Really Got A Hold On Me” sounds like something Stevie Wonder would’ve cut circa “Sign, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours” era. Unfortunately for Mr. Taylor when his track was released in 1978 the world had moved on after the 60s Motown sound and the track received some regional air play by local DJs but ended up in obscurity. The B-side, “Society” is a driving 70s funk piece. Emanuel Taylor continued in music and released Gospel records for a while. Remastered for release this is coming out on July 17th. A limited run of 500 copies was  pressed and you can now order it at our Bigcartel Store for 9.99.

You Really Got A Hold On Me

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Society

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This happened a few weeks ago but we are still excited about it. NPR and Oliver Wang featured our release by the Darling Dears as one of the top all time long lost soul songs. You can check it out here:

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/09/150291830/5-long-lost-soul-songs

We gave these one of a kind autographed reprints out to anyone who pre-ordered the Darling Dears. We’ve still got some left so if you buy the Darling Dears 45 from our store we’ll send you out one for free. While supplies last.

Order Darling Dears!

Here’s a quick recap of our Record Store day adventures. Underground Hip Hop and Weirdo Records participated in the  events and allowed us put up displays. Thanks to those that picked up our releases and I hope you enjoyed your special test pressing that you picked up for free!

We were behind the ball a little bit for this year’s Record Store Day but we’ve still got some specials at this year’s event. We’ll be represented at two great Boston area records stores, Underground Hip Hop and Weirdo Records. At either location if you buy any Cultures of Soul release you will get a free test pressing of one of our releases! While supplies last!

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

Cultures of Soul Records has been around for 2 years now and to celebrate you’ve got a deal for you! Just buy two 7 inches at our store and get $7 off your order. It’s essentially like getting one 7 inch for free! The deal is good until February 23rd. The promo code is 7INCHDEAL.

Cultures of Soul Special