STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART (LP, 140 G VINYL)

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2020 Re-Issue, 140G Vinyl

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Weve worked with Ian Willson to reissue his insanely good, self-released West Coast classic Straight From The Heart. Privately pressed and originally released in 1985, this is the only album Ian ever put out. A magical blend of AOR/sophisticated funk/synth-boogie/spiritual jazz and modern soul, its a spellbinding record of many colours. You might already know Straight From The Heart for the dubby-disco paranoid-balearic anthem Four In The Morning, and its easy to assume this is probably just another one of those one-track LPs. But trust us when we say its definitely not. This is an impressively slick record from start to finish, just ask those modern soul DJs and AOR collectors whove managed to find a rare copy in the last 35 years. It couldve (shouldve?) been number 1 all over the world back in 1985. Album opener Think About It is all sorts of right. Its emotional. Its tops-off. Its funk in its purest form. And take the proto-modern-funk of the title track (half Dm-Funk / half Dd-Funk). The shimmering, spiritual Bossa-Jazz of If I Were You serves as the albums soaring centrepiece. A gorgeous suite of Cosmic vibes to get Gilles frothing, it sounds like nothing else on the record which makes sense given that it was recorded a couple of years earlier, and is the only track on the LP that wasnt recorded in Ians own studio. Side B opens with the propulsive ode to love that is Two Is Better Than One. Wonderfully sparse when it needs to be.