Chas Hodges - Right At Home: Selected Unreleased Home Recordings - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2014 sophomore album from the globe-trotting beatmaker. ESPERANTO SLANG is a transformative LP which further illuminates the Gumbo Funk producer's fluency in breaking boundaries between genres and bridging continents through rhythm. Steeped in finely-tuned collaborations with artists from across the map, the album documents the Captain's continued musical travels in the wake of his critically-acclaimed 2011 debut album COOKIN' GUMBO. Throughout the entire album, border-crossing collaborations on both vocal and instrumental tracks seamlessly translate the musical synergies between global dancefloor cultures. Blending a wide range styles from NY hip-hop, UK bass and Turkish psychedelic, to Nigerian afrobeat and Amazonian funk, Esperanto Slang demonstrates that Captain Planet's trademark sound has matured into a truly unique form of electronic music, connecting scenes and languages worldwide through his mellifluous sonic thesaurus.

Owain Arwel Hughes - Symphonies 8 & 9 [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/08/1995

A great deep soul singer with huge talent but very little commercial success, New York based Charles Hodges nevertheless made some truly great records beginning in 1964 for the Phillips tag but really hit his stride recording for Thomas Robinson's independent Alto tag in 1965 and 1966. His first Alto single, InchThere is LoveInch revealed a fully formed singer with a gospel tinged clear tenor voice and a lovely falsetto, but later tracks such as InchYou Were Using MeInch placed Hodges in a class of his own. Hodges pretty much disappeared from the scene by the time the early 1970's hit, but he certainly left behind tracks worthy of his name being more than a footnote in the annals of soul music history. Presented here are ten of his very best recordings, recorded in 1965 and 66. All selections have been newly remastered.