Billy Valentine - Billy Valentine & The Universal Truth [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: AJXCD681
Barcode: 0676499068144
Release Date: 24 Mar 2023
Genre: R&B/Soul

• Acid Jazz presents a very special collabora5on with Flying Dutchman – the first new music from the iconic US label since the ’70s.
• Billy Valen5ne is one of the great soul voices working in America (‘the secret weapon of almost every songwriter in L.A.’) – with a history as deep and varied as the Young-Hold Trio, the original touring company of ‘The Wiz’, in collabora5on with his brother as ‘The Valen5ne Brothers’, right up to credits that include Swedish House Mafia.
• Collaborator Bob Thiele Jr. is the son of legendary producer and Flying Dutchman founder Bob Thiele (John Coltrane, Gil ScoV- Heron and many others), and an acclaimed producer and songwriter in his own right. Having worked together for over three decades, his vision was to produce a Billy Valen5ne record to reflect our 5mes.
• Conceived in the summer of 2020, it is a response to the throes of a global pandemic and the aYermath of the murder of George Floyd. More than a covers album, this record uncovers the works of the likes of Cur5s Mayfield, Gil Scot Heron, and Pharaoh Sanders in a new seZng.
• Recorded at EastWest Studios (formally the historic United Western Recorders), produced and mixed by Dave Way, and featuring a stella cast of session musicians, the album is as sonically stunning as it is moving.

Tracklisting:*
1. We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue
2. Home Is Where The Hatred Is
3. My People… Hold On
4. You Haven’t Done Nothin’
5. The Creator Has A Master Plan
6. Sign Of The Times
7. Wade In The Water
8. The World Is A Ghetto