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Avery Sunshine is a brilliant singer-songwriter-pianist from Atlanta, already generating a strong buzz in the US and here in Europe. Rooted in gospel, she is fluent in many styles, from soul and house to classical and hip-hop.

Key tracks include the sublime “All In My Head”, “Ugly Part Of Me” and “Blessin’ Me”. “The Most” and the “Sunshine” interlude feature cameo performances from Roy Ayers, who is a big fan of Ms Sunshine.

Among her past credits – working with Jennifer Holiday as choral director on a touring production of “Dream Girls” and singing on the soundtrack of the movie “The Fighting Temptations”.

She also recently (in March 2010) performed in a Los Angeles showcase of a new musical play about the life of Martin Luther King, and among those to come backstage and congratulate her after the performance was Chaka Khan. Avery also got to jam onstage at the after party, performing Anita Baker’s “Sweet Love” accompanied by Nathan East and Greg Phillinganes.

1. All In My Head
2. Today
3. The Most feat Roy Ayers
4. Ugly Part Of Me
5. Perform (Interlude)
6. Need You Now
7. Pinin’
8. I Got Sunshine
9. Blessin’ Me
10. Everybody Loves (int feat Roy Ayers)
11. Like This
12. Just Not Tonight

All In My Head

Blessin’ Me

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After completing her album “A Woman’s Touch” in 2008, Angela Johnson decided on a return to a more up-tempo, dance-oriented direction for her fourth album.  The result is her new album “It’s Personal”, which is out now!

Angela’s songwriting collaborators include Josh Milan of Blaze (their song “On The Radio” is his first ever R&B production) and fellow Dome artist Eric Roberson, with whom she has shared a stage on many occasions, notably at London’s IndigO2.    Their song is appropriately titled “Indie In Me”.

Also included is the dancefloor hit “Better”, a recent single release, with remixes from Italy’s Micky More, which has attracted superlatives from UK and European DJs and served as an appetiser for the full length album.

Of the album’s title, she says: “I wanted to connect with my audience on a more personal level and reveal more of my inner thoughts and feelings.  I wanted to share my experiences of being a wife, mother, daughter and sister, who’s also an independent recording artist, singer-songwriter and producer, who struggles to maintain balance in her life.  That was a mouthful!  Well, that’s how the album title ‘It’s Personal’ came to be”.

Two further solo albums have followed, “Got To Let It Go” and “A Woman’s Touch Vol 1” – with featured guests including Rahsaan Patterson, Maysa, Eric Roberson and Frank McComb.

1. Only One
2. Hurts Like Hell
3. Be Myself
4. Better
5. Indie In Me
6. On The Radio
7. All In Me (feat Darien)
8. Get Myself Together
9. For You
10. It’s Personal
11. Days

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Simply one of the best ever live shows we have experienced was watching Tortured Soul perform at London’s Jazz Cafe earlier last year – the guys were simply outstanding.  If you never seen the guys then try and catch them when they hit the UK in March – London’s Jazz Cafe – March 13, Bristol Metropolis – March 17th and Prestatyn Soul Weekender – March 20th.

The new album has more driving soulful house winners from opening track “Home To You” to “Your Dream Is My Dream”, as well as the Jamiroquai-flavoured “Special Lady” and the Latin party vibe of “We Like Tequila”. They are the undisputed worldwide leaders in live soulful house music and we are privileged to add them to the Dome roster of artists.

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Did You Miss Me?
At The Bottom
Home To You

Track Listing >
1.Home To You
2.In My Fantasy
3.Did You Miss Me (intro)
4.Did You Miss Me
5.Your Dream Is My Dream
6.Time To Make Up Your Mind
7.Another Lover
8.Unsteady
9.We Like Tequila
10.Special Lady
11.In Motion
12.See You More
13.At The Bottom

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A stunning side project First Protocol from Incognito leader Bluey and guitarist Tony Remy, continuing the Incognito tradition of seamlessly blending jazz and house.

First Protocol offers you ten cool instrumental tracks featuring guests including Amp Fiddler on keyboards.

Album opener “Beyond Jupiter” features the jazz funk duelling guitars of Bluey and Tony Remy, several Ski Oakenfull tracks have electronica stylings, and another highlight is the breakbeat cut “The Box” with Remy using his trademark vocoder. “Dans La Mancha” has a Latin/salsa feel with Kevin Robinson on trumpet and flugel horn..

Tony has toured with a wide range of musicians and artists, including Courtney Pine, Freddy Hubbard, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lenny White, Omar, Simply Red, Ronnie Laws, Down To The Bone, Nelson Rangell, Maysa and, of course, Incognito.

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Beyond Jupiter
Only Child
Dans La Mancha

Track Listing >
1.Beyond Jupiter
2.First Protocol
3.See No Evil
4.The Other Side Of Me
5.Where Did You Go?
6.Only Child
7.The Box
8.Transceiver
9.Dans La Mancha
10.Between My Finger And My Thumb

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Dome’s very first R&B was Sinclair and this album – a UK street soul classic – is now reissued with two added tracks “Sometimes” (previously unreleased) and “Stay With Me Tonight” plus a bonus CD of mixes by, among others, the Ethnic Boyz, Joey Negro, Ashley Beedle, US 3 and American mixer Ken Kessie, whose mix credits include many of the classic En Vogue hits.

Wherever you went in London in the summer of 1992 and 1993 you were bound to hear the voice of Sinclair and his street soul anthems “I Want You Back” and “Ain’t No Casanova”, and he went on to be voted Best Male Vocalist at the Black Music Awards.

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Track Listing >
Disc 1:
1.I Want You Back
2.Ain’t No Casanova
3.Never Get Enough
4.(I Wanna Know) Why
5.Honey Love
6.Misunderstanding
7.Don’t Lie
8.It’s Over
9.Just Another Fool
10.Sometimes
11.Innocent
12.Another Guy
13.Stay With Me Tonight
Disc 2:
1.Ain’t No Casanova (US Encore Mix)
2.Don’t Lie (Ethnic Boyz Old Skool Mix)
3.I Want You Back (G&Q Remix)
4.Honey Love (Summer Groove Remix)
5.(I Wanna Know) Why (Ska Mix)
6.Ain’t No Casanova (G&Q Groove 95 Remix)
7.Don’t Lie (Ken Kessie Remix)
8.I Want You Back (12″ Remix)
9.(I Wanna Know) Why (US 3 Vibe-rater Mix)
10.Honey Love (Delta House of Funk Remix)
11.Don’t Lie (Joey Negro Daybreak Mix)

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SEEK are a six-piece Atlanta band who fuse classic sounds with the latest cutting edge musical nuances.

Lead singer and lyricist Lisa Terry calls their music “danceable lullabies”. Producer/ guitarist Freddy Luster cites their diverse influences as “from Sade to the Isley Brothers, from Carole King to Everything But The Girl, from Seal to Jamiroquai. What I like about those artists is they all have a unique ability to weave through musical genres and stand alone in their own box”.

This album is a definite favourite among the Dome staff!

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Last Night
Something Real
Talk About It

Track Listing >
1.Open The Way
2.Rise
3.Talk About It
4.Something Real
5.Believe Me
6.Last Night
7.Some All Night Dancing
8.Taken
9.Loving Heart
10.Journey Into Day
11.Right Here (Seekronized Remix)

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Rosie Gaines – a key member of Prince’s New Power Generation with her powerful vocals on such songs as ‘Diamonds and Pearls’ and ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ – resumes her recording career with a self-produced collection ‘You Gave Me Freedom’.

Rosie was featured as a guest with Snoop Dogg on the 2002 Bootsy Collins album ‘Play With Bootsy’, and several of the tracks on this album have a definite P-funk influence.

Key cuts for us ‘I Can’t Get You Off My Mind’, ‘Honeychild’ and ‘Wanna Be’.  Also featured is Rosie’s own take on ‘My Man’, the classic song long associated with Billie Holiday.

Visit Rosie’s Website

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Get Into This Groove
Honeychild
In Spirit

Track Listing >
1.I Can’t Get You Off My Mind
2.Wanna Be
3.New Beginning
4.I’m All Woman
5.Give It To Me
6.Run To My Heart
7.In Spirit
8.It’s Been A Long Time
9.What The World Needs Now
10.Honeychild
11.My Man
12.Get Into This Groove
13.So In Love With You
14.You Are My Friend

Rahsaan Patterson – simply makes great music, earns respect from his peers and the devotion of a core of discerning fans, breaks no sales records or lifts any major award… and yet through a mixture of determination, persistence and plain talent, continues his career path unaffected.

‘After Hours’ presents a tougher, funkier side of Patterson’s multi-faceted persona than before. And there’s a couple of reasons for this, as Rahsaan himself relates:

“This time around I wanted to take people deeper into Rahsaan Patterson – I wanted people to see me in a party area. I always was doing the kind of party songs that the urban artists were doing, but my music has always been somewhat sophisticated, so with that came a perception that I must be very Adult Contemporary. The truth is, I like to have a good time, I like to get out there. And I don’t ever want to do what people expect of me.

“It has been very encouraging for me to see people’s reaction to some of those things,” reveals Rahsaan, “because if ever I was feeling discouraged I would, do a gig in, say, Washington DC and discover that the local radio station had made ‘You Make Life So Good’ into a single and that people in the audience were calling out for it and songs like ‘What Am I Gonna Do’ in my show.”

Named after legendary jazz saxophonist Rahsaan Roland Kirk, New York native Patterson was literally raised as a child of music: his parents filled their house daily with the sounds of Stevie Wonder, Frankie Beverly & Maze, Rufus, Earth, Wind & Fire, Miles Davis, Michael Jackson and the pop artists of the day. Something of a prodigy as a young vocalist, Rahsaan expanded his creative reach to include acting, which prompted a family move to Los Angeles, where he landed a four-year starring role in the Disney syndicated television show ‘Kids Incorporated’. After the series ended, Rahsaan and family moved back to New York City, but producer and friend Les Pierce persuaded Patterson to move back to LA to try his luck as a solo artist. During this period, Rahsaan’s emerging writing skills led to a collaboration with producer Keith Crouch on Brandy’s triple-platinum selling ‘Baby’, which reached No. 1 on the US national charts. Patterson later met producer Jamey Jaz, and the two co-wrote Tevin Campbell’s ‘Back to the World. A subsequent bidding war ended with Rahsaan signing a solo deal with MCA, for whom he recorded the two albums ‘Rahsaan Patterson’ and ‘Love In Stereo’ that made him such a hero to soul fans around the world.

Rahsaan has also penned hit songs along the way for Brandy’s brother Ray J, Chico DeBarge, Christopher Williams, Donell Jones and Jody Watley, and toured and recorded with Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam, Jason Weaver, Martika, Colour Club, Teddy, George Duke and Stanley Clarke, amongst others.

Most importantly, however, he is returning to the artist’s arena with an album that’s sure to please his established army of supporters as well as reach out to ears anew. Says Rahsaan: “Most people don’t treat musical artists the same way as they do, say, painters. We don’t have their freedom. A painter can paint anything they want; a musical artist often has to fit inside genre boxes. “But my music is always very layered. It’s almost like cubism – if you stand far away and squint, you get it.”

Visit Rahsaan’s Website

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Burnin’
The One For Me
So Hot

Track Listing >
1.The One For Me
2.I Always Find Myself
3.So Hot
4.Burnin’
5.Loving You
6.The Best
7.Don’t Run So Fast
8.You Make Life So Good
10.Yeah Yeah Yeah
11.Separate
12.April’s Kiss

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“Wines & Spirits” – the fourth solo album from Los Angeles singer-songwriter Rahsaan Patterson.

The superb album – three years after his acclaimed ‘After Hours’ set – sees him reunited with producer Keith Crouch, who worked on his 1997 MCA debut album, as well as continuing his lengthy partnership with Jamey Jaz.

The new album features a wide range of styles from the hip-hop flavour of ‘Time’, featuring rapper Johnny Onyx, to the Eighties-influenced ‘No Danger’ and the mid-tempo US single ‘Stop Breaking My Heart’. He ends the album with an acoustic version, with full string session, of the Janis Ian ballad ‘Stars’, which reflects on the fleeting nature of fame. He also gets to rock out on the gospel-tinged ‘Oh Lord (Take Me Back)’, recorded with SugaRush Beat Company.

One of the most gifted contemporary vocalist around – and one that you should definitely check out!

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Feels Good
No Danger
Oh Lord (Take_Me_Back)

Track Listing >
1.Cloud 9
2.Delirium (Comes And Goes)
3.Feels Good
4.No Danger
5.Pitch Black
6.Time (feat Johnny Onyx)
7.Stop Breaking My Heart
8.Water
9.Deliver Me
10.Oh Lord (Take Me Back)
11.Higher Love
12.Stars

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Para:Diso is a side project for Jean Paul ‘Bluey’ Maunick of Incognito. Though Daniel Maunick aka Venom and his father have worked together before on productions for artists such as Soul Bossa, Faithless, Maxi Priest and Azymuth, this is the first time they stepped out on their own with an album aimed at clubbers.

The album offers up a wealth of influences. – with guest vocals from Valerie Etienne, Niki King and Tommy Blaize, it features break-beat syncopations and abstract fusions from a new jazz era. If you have listened to Jazzanova, Vikter Duplaix or Airto, you will have a good understanding of where Bluey and Daniel are coming from.

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Right Is Right
Snowblind
Waiting 4 The Sun 2 Shine

Track Listing >
1.Paradise II Paranoia
2.All About U
3 Waiting 4 The Sun 2 Shine feat Valerie Etienne
4.Eden
5.Right Is Right feat Niki King
6.Black Orchid
7.Snowblind
8.Let Yourself Go feat Tommy Blaize
9.Connexion
10.Vanishing Point
11.Sweet Pain