Soulfinger - A Life love and Passion Motown Era Project

A heartfelt artistic statement paying tribute to the great songwriters of the classic “Motown” era.

The idea was to highlight and re-record B-sides of lesser known soul music gems from the late 60ties up to mid of 70ties, inviting a variety of amazing artists to perform on one song each:

Leela James - Teedra Moses - Jaguar Wright - Kathy Sledge - Syleena Johnson - Anthony David - Truth Hurts - Martin Luther - Joi - Stephanie McKay - Antonique Smith - Angela Johnson - Ben L’Oncle Soul - Sara Devine - Milla Brune - Mizzy

We want to put this labor-of-love out into the world in a very different manner than how it’s usually done.

We have come up with (we hope) absolutely extraordinary luxury packaging for this super-limited, hand-numbered collector’s item. This will not be released in digital form, no iTunes, no Amazon, no Spotify.

For our limited edition run, we picked Kickstarter as platform:

KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN LINK

Clips/info/samples etc via this page

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soulfinger/soulfinger-life-love-and-passion

Every unit will be uniquely identified by its serial number.

NOTE: The serial on the prototype used in our photoshoot uses the name of our company ("Soulfood Music Group"), on the final product we will change this to:

Soulfinger - Life, Love & Passion -- Nº: 000X

Full list of participating artists:

Leela James, Soul Train Music Award & NAACP Image Award nominee

Teedra Moses, signed to Rick Ross' Maybach Music Group/Warner Bros.

Jaguar Wright, legendary singer, once backing vocalist of Jay Z

Kathy Sledge, (“Sister Sledge/We Are Family”)

Joi, lead-singer of Raphael Saadiq's Lucy Pearl (“Lucy Pearl/Lucy Pearl”)

Truth Hurts, (“Truth Hurts/Addictive”)

Anthony David, Grammy Awards nominee, reputedly First Lady Michelle Obama's favorite artist

Syleena Johnson, Grammy Awards nominee (Kayne West - "All Falls Down"), daughter of Syl Johnson, TV One “R&B Divas”

Martin Luther, Golden Globe nominee (“Across The Universe”), collaborations with The Roots

Stephanie McKay, toured the world with Kelis, collaborations with Mos Def, Talib Kweli

Antonique Smith, Golden Globe nominee (“Across The Universe”), played the role of Faith Evans in the film "Notorius"

Angela Johnson, collaborations with Frank McComb, Eric Roberson, Rahsaan Patterson

Sara Devine, backing vocalist Mary J Blige

Ben L’Oncle Soul, Motown signature and France’s soul music super star

Mizzy (“Soul:ID”)

Milla Brune, Belgian shooting star

MUSICIANS:

Working on classics, it was important to us to have an identifiable sound all across the album and so we decided to work with a steady band of musicians, all having an impressive track-record:

Steady backing band:

Gene Lake - drums [Maxwell/D'Angelo/MeShell Ndegeocello]

Jonathan Maron - bass [Groove Collective/Maxwell/India.Arie]

Selan Lerner - keys [Nile Rogers/DJ Spinna/Kanye West]

Mike Ciro - git [Janet Jackson/Raheem DeVaughn/Mariah Carey]

Chops Horns [sugarhill Records/The Police/Alicia Keys]

The Maze Ensemble - Andra Durham, Paul Umbach & Rob Arthur — strings [Peter Frampton]

Guest musicians:

Eric Smith - bass [musical director Rihanna/Mary Mary/Jill Scott]

Jerry Barnes - bass [Juicy, Chaka Khan/Al Green/Roberta Flack]

Jacques Schwartz-Bart - sax [D'Angelo/MeShell Ndegeocello/Roy Hargrove]

Videos

http://youtu.be/uUAgSCstOKs

http://youtu.be/-NMyLzx_isU

http://youtu.be/HNf6wqTY4Kw

Official Site

http://soulfingermusic.com/

Kickstarter site

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soulfinger/soulfinger-life-love-and-passion

Yos ZoulFeb 27 2014 08:39 AM

"This will not be released in digital form,"

So what's this CD then? A new analog type we've never seen before?

Steve GFeb 28 2014 08:06 PM

Looks good…..

Kevin BruceMar 01 2014 11:17 AM

Great Project Guys

It would great if you released them on 7" Vinyl promos.

So that us Northern soul DJ'S a cross the pound in great Britain.

Could play them and promote them for you.

Keep The Faith

Kevin Bruce Sheffield UK.