Park Bench People / Visions Of Violet (Vinyl 12") Reggae & Ska

Park Bench People / Visions Of Violet (Vinyl 12") Reggae & SkaJose's sublime cover version of Freestyle Fellowships "Park Bench People" at last gets a full 12" release. Rather than plunder the American songbook and churn out standards, Jose has revived this criminally overlooked classic from the early 90s and truly made it his own. It's the sort of track that gets under your skin and stays there. Jose's voice comes on at once lazy and hazy but devastatingly powerful; the track is full of atmosphere and passion.

a Tamla Motown album track that sound like it could have been written for a blaxploitation movie

you'd expect Black Focus to be rather good

which was the only studio release from the four piece

Back at it again

nigh-on impossible to market

000 Wedding

analogue shuffle housing a delicate melody that builds over the course of the song into a fragile monolith to the power of love

Even with overdubbed strings

Junior Cook on tenor

spawning the debut album

Kalita are delighted to announce the first ever re-release of Los Angeles-based outfit Addmoro’s three sought-after recordings from their privately released invisible 1985 boogie grail ‘Keep On Trying’

Phillip Ballou