Jan
9
Belleruche
Unfortunately I can’t give you an audio sample of the band I was obsessively playing during the recent holidays, as the only copies I have aren’t in mp3 format, but here’s a set of links:
http://hypem.com/search/belleruche/1/
http://www.last.fm/music/Belleruche
Belleruche, a pretty new British band, terms themselves “Turntable Soul Music,” which is pretty accurate. The singer has a terribly sexy voice in the Ella Fitzgerald smoky, gravelly tradition, and the supporting music has a downtempo DJ / Jazz Groove / Trip Hop quality that pulls in some big band samples. Veering sometimes into the Portishead arena, they have my heart.
