Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:18
Size: 99.1 MB
Styles: Soul, Blues
Year: 2017
Art: Front
[8:09] 1. Make Time For Love
[6:03] 2. Just Call Me
[6:12] 3. Don’t Turn Away
[5:04] 4. Parts Of A Man
[5:20] 5. Knockout
[4:11] 6. Running From Love
[8:16] 7. Blood And Bone
Most live albums are placeholders, released to give fans some new listening material by reprising old songs in their stage versions. That’s not the case with “Live at Ancienne Belgique,” the new, digitally released album from Josh Hoyer & Soul Colossal. Recorded by the video crew at the Brussels, Belgium club on April 1 -- the final night of the Lincoln soul band’s European tour -- the seven-song recording captures the band’s vibrant, vital music as it should be heard, freed from the time limits and meticulous control of the studio.
That means songs like opener “Time for Love” and the jazz-inflected closer “Blood and Bone” stretch to eight minutes and beyond, letting the band catch a groove and showcasing the players, particularly Mike Dee on sax and veteran guitarist Benjamin Kushner, who has never played better on any recording that I’ve heard. Hoyer, too, has rarely sounded better, his gruff, passionate vocals bringing the soul, whether shouting or pulling the heart out of the ballad “Parts of a Man.”
The final, and sonically most important, kudos go to bassist James Fleege, who produced the album from the Belgian recordings, crafting a rich album that beautifully presents the live sound of Hoyer and the band, which is when they’re at their best. ~Most live albums are placeholders, released to give fans some new listening material by reprising old songs in their stage versions. That’s not the case with “Live at Ancienne Belgique,” the new, digitally released album from Josh Hoyer & Soul Colossal. ~L. Kent Wolgamott
That means songs like opener “Time for Love” and the jazz-inflected closer “Blood and Bone” stretch to eight minutes and beyond, letting the band catch a groove and showcasing the players, particularly Mike Dee on sax and veteran guitarist Benjamin Kushner, who has never played better on any recording that I’ve heard. Hoyer, too, has rarely sounded better, his gruff, passionate vocals bringing the soul, whether shouting or pulling the heart out of the ballad “Parts of a Man.”
The final, and sonically most important, kudos go to bassist James Fleege, who produced the album from the Belgian recordings, crafting a rich album that beautifully presents the live sound of Hoyer and the band, which is when they’re at their best. ~Most live albums are placeholders, released to give fans some new listening material by reprising old songs in their stage versions. That’s not the case with “Live at Ancienne Belgique,” the new, digitally released album from Josh Hoyer & Soul Colossal. ~L. Kent Wolgamott
Live! Ancienne Belgique
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:01
Size: 91.6 MB
Styles: Soul, Blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front
[5:04] 1. Shadowboxer
[4:26] 2. Close Your Eyes
[4:18] 3. Illusion
[4:46] 4. Every Day And Every Night
[4:29] 5. Just Call Me
[5:01] 6. Til She's Lovin' Someone Else
[4:40] 7. Make Time For Love
[7:14] 8. Dirty World
Hoyer formed Josh Hoyer & Soul Colossal in 2012 in famed blues town Lincoln, Nebraska. The award-winning five-piece band includes some of the area's most revered and accomplished musicians. Joining Hoyer (keyboards/vocals) is Mike Dee (sax), Mike Keeling (bass), Benjamin Kushner (guitar), and Larell Ware (drums). Inspired by the sounds of Stax, Motown, Muscle Shoals, New Orleans, Philly and San Francisco, the band continuously crosses musical boundaries both in style and era, and joins forces each show with a common goal - to have the crowd dancing so much they forget even their smallest troubles.
"If James Brown and Otis Redding had a love child, it would be Josh Hoyer. The Lincoln, Nebraska, soul shouter, and his band of merry soulsters, Soul Colossal, deliver a sound so big, so funky, so wring-the-sweat-out-of-you energetic that it reaches through the speakers and shakes you until you start moving to its groove." ~ No Depression
"If James Brown and Otis Redding had a love child, it would be Josh Hoyer. The Lincoln, Nebraska, soul shouter, and his band of merry soulsters, Soul Colossal, deliver a sound so big, so funky, so wring-the-sweat-out-of-you energetic that it reaches through the speakers and shakes you until you start moving to its groove." ~ No Depression
Josh Hoyer & Soul Colossal
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Thanks for these 2 albums. Mediafire is still working.
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