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  Lady Blackbird - Black Acid Soul [FM0008 UK 2021 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] If you overlooked this album back when I posted it in 2021, then shame on you. Black Acid Soul is very possibly the best vocal jazz album in recent years. Today, I revisited my copy with a brand new rip. Here's what I wrote back then when I posted by 2021 advance copy. The hype hasn't properly started yet about Lady Blackbird, so let's get in there quickly before the Jools Holland viewers and Guardian readers unleash those 'new Nina Simone' recommendations to their dinner party friends etc etc etc. Actually, Marley Munroe (from Los Angeles)  has already been on Jools late night Friday TV show ...therefore the cat is quite possibly out of the bag. If this was thirty plus years ago, I would expect the majors to be sniffing around waving their cheque books and promising the earth. Black Acid Soul is the first release on the new Foundation Music label, an independent based in London, who, quite ...

  Lady Blackbird - Black Acid Soul [FM0008 UK 2021 24-Bit FLAC] The hype hasn't properly started yet about Lady Blackbird, so let's get in there quickly before the Jools Holland viewers and Guardian readers unleash those ' new Nina Simone' recommendations to their dinner party friends etc etc etc. Actually, Marley Munroe (from Los Angeles)  has already been on Jools late night Friday TV show ...therefore the cat is quite possibly out of the bag. If this was thirty plus years ago, I would expect the majors to be sniffing around waving their cheque books and promising the earth. Black Acid Soul is the first release on the new Foundation Music label, an independent based in London, who, quite remarkably obtained the services of Bernie Grundman to master this clear blue vinyl edition. Copies have been sneaking out across the UK in small batches, I understand only 500 have been pressed so far. Expect the rest of the world to be all over Lady Blackbird when this album gets...