The Salsoul Orchestra
Nice 'N' Naasty

Beautiful private gospel modern soul album, now hard to find. Finally available again, fully licensed and remastered, with original artwork.Recorded sometime in the late 1970s, and previously only available as a private press release on a tiny Maryland label, "Miracles" is the sole album from gospel preacher/singer Reverend Norman Weeks and his backing band, the Revelations. Little info is available, though if the modern soul end of gospel is your thing it's well worth picking up. As you'd expect, the vocals from Weeks and his collaborators are soulful and righteous, while the accompanying music is impeccably played and surprisingly well produced given the likely budget constraints. Highlights include the heavy funk-soul strut of "It Took A Miracle", the Bob James-influenced brilliance of "I Wanna Sing For You" and fizzing LP opener and bona fide dancefloor rocker "I Will Stand On It".

Sketches is the limited edition vinyl run from fika, showcasing a collection of songs from their exploration of R&B.The record serves as an aperture into their artistic development and compositional ideas or ‘sketches’ to date, featuring collaborations with trumpet virtuoso Jackson Mathod (Stormzy, Jordan Rakei) on ‘Make You Feel’, El Train (Barney Artist) on ‘Free’, and Jafunk (James Vickery, Dirty Radio) on ‘Only One’.