J.P. Bimeni & The Black Belts - Give Me Hope

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: LMNK72CD
Barcode: 5050580775800
Release Date: 18 Feb 2022
Genre: Soul

01: Four Walls
02: Not In My Name
03: Find That Love
04: Guilty & Blessed
05: Give Me Hope
06: Ghost City
07: James Stern
08: Precious Girl
09: When Everything Is Wrong
10: Mathematics
11: Found A Good Thang

**Worldwide distribution, excl. France, Benelux and USA**

BBC 6 Music Album of the Year as chosen by

DJ Craig Charles

★★★★Mojo

★★★★★Blues & Soul

★★★★★UK Vibe

9/10 DJ Mag (Single I Miss You)

"One of the very best soul voices I've heard for a very long time"

Craig Charles (BBC 6Music)

"Delivered with a vocal dripping with yearning and desperation"

4/5 Mojo

"A high octane soul masterpiece"

Blues & Soul,5/5Album of the Month

"Undoubtedly the album of the year"

5/5 UK Vibe

Burundian soul singer JP Bimeni is set to release his first music since his BBC 6 Music award winning album Free, from 2018. Give Me Hope is a slice of horn heavy, Afro tinged, Stax inspired soul and is the first taster of a new album set for release in early 2022

Give me Hope is the title track from his new album, featuring his band The Black Belts, set to drop on February 4thon Lovemonk Records.

A supremely funky number it boasts bassline and powerful horn arrangements, and gives a taster to a new work that dots between classic '60s Motown, psychedelia and Afro-funk.