Numero Group

The equivocal sound of hippies fresh from their back-to-land sojourns shuttling drum machines through heart worn aspirations, as if the music section of the Whole Earth Catalog came to life.

Barely disco and hardly jazz, Rupa Biswas’ 1982 LP is the halfway point between Bollywood and Balearic.

It’s all here - the high hairdos, the dreams and schemes, the tender camp, the wedding bell fantasias and chaste tragedies.

From a basement in New Jersey, Tommy Falcone remade himself into a DIY Phil Spector.

Recorded in 1971 by a 27-year-old pastor and an after school program choir, Like A Ship is a stirring and powerful meditation on the wayward aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement.

Syl’s inspiring voice and his mighty band, the Pieces of Peace, are a match made in soul heaven.