Eclectik Soul: Press

A new band emerging from Mississippi this year is Eclectik Soul. And to catch your attention from the beginning, their eighteen tracks self-titled album is one of the most promising surprises I've heard this year. A solid level of songs, geat vocals, interesting song writing and superb musicism in this successful blend of soul, jazz, and funk.
The album opens up with "The Invite", an open invitation to the colorful world of Eclectik Soul and an introduction to the band. "1-Achord" sets the path for what this CD is all about, feel good vibes, in this acid-jazzy tune.
As we talked about a solid level of songs, Eclectik Soul's music shows nice variation in tempo and aura. The uptempo tracks are often highly danceable and have quite some hit potential from time to time backed by fantastic sing-a-long choruses while downtempo tracks and instrumental intermezzo's are deeply soulful and touching.
To name a favorite track here is almost impossible, but I'm sure that fans around the world will surely dig tracks such as "Time", "Snatchin' Measures" (great tempo breaks here), "Keep Going", "Everythang", "Music" (heavenly chorus) and "To Mama". In this Eclectik Soul debut I notice influences from all the best that music has brought us...I feel snippets of old school acid-jazz sounds, vocals blending in somewhere beween Nina Simone and Lauren Hill, spacey funk from Jamiroquai...and of course the purest of soul music. As I've mentioned earlier...here at jazzandsoul.eu we get tons of new albums in every week and we try to listen to them as detached as possible. Now and then though there are albums that seem to be right from the first listening session and I've had this feeling with Eclectik Soul.
Certainly an album I would buy to have in my collection and definitely a band I want to hear more from in the near future. Highly, highly recommended and to end here I would like to use a small chorus phrase from the music track: "M.U.S.I.C....you make me feel free". Nuff said!

The members of Eclectik Soul hail from all over the US, where good music is lacking. With this group, think of songs that speak to the very core of your soul. This album demonstrates pure, unadulterated rhythm and blues like it was back in the 70's and 80's before it was corrupted by garbage mainstream R&B (which is a complete TRAVESTY). Rest assured, this album is the HEAT that these young'uns know nothing about.