You’re Nicole Willis, you’ve got a brand new band (Banda Palomita), you’ve got a brand new musical bag that’s heavy on the 80s influences and you need a remix of your electro boogie single, I Call Your Name. So who you gonna call? No, not Ghostbusters! You’re going to call Smoove and get him to don his disco hat, and I think we all know that is a very ‘disco’ hat indeed. He’ll probably
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NICOLE WILLIS & BANDA PALOMITA: I Call Your Name (SMOOVE remix)
NICOLE WILLIS & BANDA PALOMITA: I Call Your Name
So Nicole Willis has got a new backing band – Banda Palomita – and it turns out there’s this new long-player on the way entitled My Soul Sensation rich in disco, jazz-funk, soul, boogie and electro flavours. Before all that though it is rather customary to put out some sort of single by way of a taster, which, my friends, will be this – I Call
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NICOLE WILLIS & UMO JAZZ ORCHESTRA: Haunted By The Devil b/w (Everybody) Do The Watusi (Vinyl 7″)
Here you go then – two sides of Nicole Willis lifted straight from the recent My Name Is Nicole Willis LP. For reasons best known to people other than the monkey, Side-A of this 45 is the mood music of soul-jazz slowie Haunted By The Devil adorned with not un-pleasing pysch trimmings. Lest DJs be haunted by an empty dancefloor however, the flip is the far more lively ‘northern jazz’ number Do
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NICOLE WILLIS & THE SOUL INVESTIGATORS: Live @ Rich Mix 25 October (2015)
Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators’ new LP arrives in the autumn and Soundcrash have not only got the band to play at Rich Mix on 25 October but are already advertising the gig – presumably for the sort of people who get up at 5 a.m. to put a towel down on that holiday sun lounger or camp out for three nights rather than miss the new Apple watch or something. Though
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NICOLE WILLIS: Paint Me In A Corner (2015)
Even back in the early 2000s when Daptone were kicking off the deep funk and soul resurgence with Sharon Jones, there was a rival to the crown of new soul queen. That would have been Nicole Willis who, while not as prolific as Jones and the Dap Kings, can lay claim to a output of equal quality, in the company of her band The Soul Investigators. And so we might well ask, ‘But Ms
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NICOLE WILLIS & THE SOUL INVESTIGATORS: Tortured Soul (2013)
Tortured Soul is the second LP from Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators and the PR has it that a, “…new turn is the dusky sound of these raw tracks, which could be compared to the era when Motown stepped from their 1960s pop sound to more progressive times.” Bear in mind that’s ‘new turn’ as in ‘not new really’ since tracks on Willis’s eight year old debut LP with the Soul Investigators
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NICOLE WILLIS & THE SOUL INVESTIGATORS: Tell Me When/ It’s All Because Of You (2012)
Nicole Willis and her band’s latest investigation into soul appears to conclude that the seventies is the new sixties. Thus it is that Tell Me When (We Can Start Our Love Thing Again) finds her hopeful pestering of a previous lover for further bedroom action delivered in a markedly smoother style than anything off 2005’s If This Ain’t Love LP. Slower, more depressing B-side It’s All Because Of You
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