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  Pixabay The Italian disco group The Salsoul Invention from producer Anoub, can easily be mistaken for The Salsoul Orchestra from vibraphonist Vince Montana Jr. (formerly of MFSB). The names are very similar and their only LP, Salsoul Explosion , released back in 1976, covers some Salsoul Orchestra classics, like Nice 'N' Naasty , Salsoul Hustle and Get Happy . But The Salsoul Invention also recorded tracks form Anoub himself and did a very pleasant version of Jesse Green’s Nice And Slow . Enjoy this funky chillout sofa session ! Tracklist: Niia & Superposition – The Body Keeps Score (2022) Velvet Lapel – Softly (2022) Weekend – Summerdays (1982) Starship Gilbey – Take A Train (1982) Janice Bulluck – Do You Really Love Me (1987) Fruitcake – We Are Children (1981) Jean Honeymoon – Beginnings (2017) Télépopmusik ‎– Breathe (2001) Alex Cortiz – Magic Touch (2001) Minnie Riperton – Inside My Love (1975) Macebo Feat. Laura Philips – Ain’t No Sunshine (2019) Earth, Wi...

Lucas Andrade Enjoy this ride from coast to coast! Power pop is, just like AOR and yacht rock, great music to be played loudly in your car. It can be best described as melodic guitar pop with jangling guitars, catchy hooks and banging beats.  Loud Music In Cars by Billy Bremner is a perfect example. In 1974 Dutch band The Cats went to L.A. to record an album with the best West Coast musicians around at the time. Be My Day from the album became a massive hit in the Netherlands and reached #18 on Billboard Adult Contemporary. A year later they made an album with Jeff Porcaro (Toto), David Foster (Chicago, Airplay, Herb Alpert) and Larry Carlton as musicians. Unfortunately, both West Coast albums did not bring them the American breakthrough they were aiming for. They split a few years later. In Dutch chart history the Cats are still one of the most successful bands. On his new seventies inspired single Sun Goes Down , Australian singer/songwriter Joel Sarakula questions his lover “ w...

Taylor Simpson If you like the music on my latest cloudcast , but you don’t want to hear any retro radio fragments, then this exclusive version is the one for you 😊 And I added a seventies cover version as bonus track, enjoy! Tracklist: Dorothy Moore – Lookin’ For A Lovin’ (1979) Greg Perry – One For The Road (1975) Barry White – You're The First, The Last, My Everything (1974) Willie Hutch – Ain’t That (Mellow Mellow) (1974) Boz Scaggs – What Do You Want The Girl To Do (1976) Carolyn Franklin – Sunshine Holiday (1976) Yvonne Elliman – Hello Stranger (1977) Stephen Bishop (Feat. Chaka Khan) – Save It For A Rainy Day (1976) Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes – The Love I Lost (1973) Mud – All I’ve Got To Give (1976) Roberta Flack – Early Ev’ry Midnite (1975) Bee Gees – How Deep Is Your Love (1977) Martee Lebous – Chance To Dance (1976) Mike James Kirklan d – Hang On In There (1972) Rufus Feat. Chaka Khan – Circles (1975) Black Mighty Wax – Psycho Killer (2006)

  Unsplash Barry White started working in the music industry in the 1960s, but commercial success came the next decade. With his danceable and slick soul music he became one of the pioneers of disco. In the mid-seventies he recorded the soft-porn instrumental Love’s Theme with his Love Unlimited Orchestra and solo songs on which he imitated a moose in the rutting season. Hit singles were Never Never Gonna Give Ya Up, Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe and You're The First, The Last, My Everything. The latter was his biggest hit and is on this cloudcast. Barry White sold millions of records and became an icon of the decade. His brilliant songs can easily stand the test of time. The track by British seventies pop band Mud was originally on their 1976 album It’s Better Than Working and is now on the new 4CD box set Mud: The Albums 1975-1979 , out on Cherry Red Records. Just like Barry White, Mud was one of the best-selling acts in the mid-seventies, although they were not s...

Sophisti-pop, blue-eyed-soul, new wave and some Japanese funk are the ingredients for the best years of our lives: the 1980s 😊 Enjoy this new sofa session ! What was called easy listening in the early days, became sophisti-pop later on. In the 1980s the big orchestras of the previous decade were replaced by small synths and the cheesy musical structures disappeared in favour of more complex ones. Sophisti-pop could be described as stylish, predominantly electronic, sometimes jazzy or funky and always very cleverly put together. I suppose Bryan Ferry was the king and Sade the queen of the genre.  On May the 25th, at the 50th anniversary of Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry will publish his book Lyrics . It contains the lyrics of his 17 albums, from the first Roxy Music album in 1972 to 2014’s Avonmore . The book includes an introduction by the author, and an essay by James Truman. The track by Mizuki Koyama is from the compilation Tokyo Glow by DJ Notoya. He explains the quality of the song...

C-Heads Magazine If you follow me closely, then you’ll probably know that I love that late seventies/early eighties Californian yacht rock sound. The thing is that the genre never faded out completely and today’s music scene still counts numerous yacht rock acts. I selected some of them for this peaceful breeze from the West Coast, the original home of Flower Power. Just remember. what the world needs now is love, to quote Jonathan Samuel Johnson. We all know that Michael Jackson did some terrible things and he made some terrible records ( Earth Song !), but I like his early work a lot. He was the one who could cross over from R&B to pop like no one had done before and paved the way for later super stars, like his sister Janet, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey. On Westcoastsoul.de singer/songwriter Pearl Charles explains why she draws her inspiration from the 1960s and 1970s: “I have always felt that the 60’s and 70’s were the height of true artistry in the mainstream, not only in...