Category archive: Soul

I know some of you’ve been missing our Slept on Sundays a lot. In the future we’ll be trying our best to maintain the focus on providing you with a weekly dose of ‘throwback’ music. Since Moovmnt is celebrating it’s 5th anniversary in December, we must admit to have slept on some tunes over the years . Also some music we couldn’t post about simply because the blog did not exist yet. An example of some incredible music, we weren’t able to post about is Shuya Okino‘s “United Legends” album, which came out in 2006. There are a couple of dope songs on this release, but one of our favs is “What Would I Do Without You?” (produced by Mark de Clive-Lowe) featuring Vikter Duplaix.

Shuya Okino & Mark de Clive-Lowe – What Would I Do Without You? Ft. Vikter Duplaix

For those that bought Robert Glasper‘s “Black Radio” on CD, already knew about that other dope bonus track entitled “Fever” featuring Hindi Zahra. To be honest, we never bought the CD. I got myself a vinyl copy, so I almost missed out on that one. This also needs to be heard, it’s simply too good to just be on somebody’s CD. Of course we urge you to buy the CD, vinyl and hell even the digital version. Buy everything from Glasper is our opinion!

Finally here is Chris Turner‘s first official release “Monk Tape”. If you check out MOOVMNT often enough you should already know Chris Turner from his first release “Liquid Love”, which is still available on . The real Jazz heads might also know he is the lead singer in Jamire Williams supergroup ERIMAJ, and Chris is also part of a soulquarian-esque collective called The Romantic Movement, along with Jesse Boykins III, Melo-X, Mara Hruby and others. Now please spend a few $$ so Chris can use the proceeds to mix and master his upcoming album LOVEchild..

Chris Turner – Aint Misbehavin (For You)

Chris Turner – Liquid Love (Official)

Here is one of just four vocal joints of Roddy Rod‘s new “Oakwood Grain II” album out on Nature Sounds. Make sure you grab “Truly 1Derful” featuring Cynthia Hawkes…why cuz it’s a free download on the Nature Sounds Bandcamp of course! If you want to cop the whole album, just visit for a purchase.

Roddy Rod – Truly 1Derful Ft. Cynthia Hawkes

Here we have a taste of Kan Sano‘s upcoming “Bha” EP, which will be released April 4th on Spirit Notes. Probably a digital only release, so keep that in mind. Love the intricate play on Japan’s top notch pianists’ new song “Vayu”, but I guess there’s not a lot to hate about this one.

Kan Sano – Vayu

Toronto’s baddest soul sensation, Slakah The Beatchild, just blessed the world wide web with a brand new leak of his upcoming “Soul Movement” Vol. 2 album. Incredible news seeing the first volume has been on heavy rotation for years now. Still too many cats be sleepin’ on Slakah…wake up!! If you hurry, you can still grab a free download seeing there are 100 free ones being given away on his Soundcloud page.

Slakah The Beatchild – Wanna Do

So we’re getting closer and closer to the release of Scratcha DVA‘s “Pretty Ugly” album which will be available April 19th on Hyperdub. Together with vocalist Natalie Maddix he made this video, shot during a power cut in London. Very curious about this project!

Multi-talented singer/songerwriter/actress Sy Smith is back with her fourth album called “Fast And Curious” released on her own label Psyko Records. The album was entirely produced and co-written by Mark de Clive-Lowe. This right here is a nice fusion of soulful house, broken beat and downtempo electronic soul. Fellow soul singer, Rahsaan Patterson, joins Sy on her interpretation of Billy Ocean’s boogie banger “Nights” (Feel Like Getting Down), but one of our favorites is “Teena”. One of those albums you have to give a listen and buy on Bandcamp if you decide it’s worth it.

Sy Smith – Teena [112kbps]