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Standing In The Light - 25 Years Of Stone Foundation

    UK soul stalwarts Stone Foundation celebrate 25 years and 10 studio albums together with a career retrospective. The tracklist includes their biggest collaborations (Paul Weller, Durand Jones, Graham Parker, Melba Moore, William Bell, Bettye LaVette, Nolan Porter, Mick Talbot and many more) alongside their best known tracks plus 2 brand new songs.

    TRACK LISTING

    2LP / 2CD Tracklisting
    A1 The Limit Of A Man
    A2 The Light In Us (Feat. Laville)
    A3 Now That You Want Me Back (Feat. Melba Moore)
    A4 Deeper Love (Feat. Paul Weller)
    A5 Next Time Around
    B1 Beverley
    B2 Carry The News
    B3 Season Of Change (Feat. Bettye LaVette)
    B4 Hold On To Love (Feat. Durand Jones)
    B5 Your Balloon Is Rising (Feat. Paul Weller)
    C1 Summer Feeling
    C2 Standing On The Top
    C3 Echoes Of Joy
    C4 Let The Light
    C5 To Find The Spirit
    C6 The Night Teller (Feat. Graham Parker)
    D1 Strange People (Feat. William Bell)
    D2 B What U R (Feat. Shirley Jones)
    D3 Pushing Your Love
    D4 Tracing Paper (Feat. Nolan Porter)
    D5 Outside Looking In (Edit)
    D6 Back In The Game (Feat. Paul Weller)

    5CD Box Set Tracklisting
    CD1
    1 The Limit Of A Man
    2 The Light In Us Feat. Laville
    3 Now That You Want Me Back Feat. Melba Moore
    4 Deeper Love Feat. Paul Weller
    5 Next Time Around
    6 Beverley
    7 Carry The News
    8 Season Of Change Feat. Bettye Lavette
    9 Hold On To Love Feat. Durand Jones
    10 Your Balloon Is Rising Feat. Paul Weller
    11 Summer Feeling
    12 Standing On The Top
    13 Echoes Of Joy
    14 Let The Light
    15 To Find The Spirit
    16 The Night Teller Feat. Graham Parker
    17 Strange People Feat. William Bell
    CD2
    1 B What U R Feat. Shirley Jones
    2 Pushing Your Love
    3 Tracing Paper Feat. Nolan Porter
    4 Outside Looking In (Edit)
    5 Back In The Game Feat. Paul Weller
    6 Changes
    7 Only You Can Feat. Hamish Stuart
    8 Don't Walk Away Feat. Kathryn Williams
    9 Hold On
    10 A Love Uprising Feat. Dr Robert
    11 When You're In My World Feat. Carleen Anderson
    12 Heaven Knows Why Feat. Laville, Sheree Dubois
    13 Sweet Forgiveness
    14 Bring Back The Happiness
    15 Don't Let The Rain
    16 Love's Outro Feat. Peter Capaldi
    CD3
    1 Riches
    2 Care Of Heather
    3 Brain
    4 From The Birth Of Time
    5 Deep In The Water
    6 The Waiting Game
    7 Picked Up The Phone
    8 Maybe In A Lifetime
    9 Once In A While I Need Some Peace
    10 5th October
    11 My Love Will Never Be Enough
    12 Not Around
    13 Are You Really Happy?
    14 To Love Somebody
    15 Don't Give In Tonight
    CD4
    1 So Begins The Conversation
    2 We'll Be Flying
    3 Seven Days
    4 Autumn's Child
    5 Did My Baby Call Feat. Steve Calloway
    6 Our Love Is In The Pocket
    7 Eyes Of June
    8 No More The Fool
    9 Please Tell Me Feat. Joe Harris
    10 Can You Keep A Secret (Part 1)
    11 Uncomplicated
    12 Dogtooth
    13 Right Track Feat. Nolan Porter
    14 The Last Goodbye
    15 Wondrous Place Feat. Pete Williams
    16 Crazy Love Feat. Nolan Porter
    17 Don't Let The Rain (Dub) Feat. Dennis Bovell
    CD5
    1 That's The Way I Want To Live My Life
    2 These Life Stories (Live)
    3 Something In The Light
    4 Learning The Hard Way
    5 Life Goes On
    6 It's Always Been There
    7 Simplify The Situation (Live)
    8 I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down Feat. Graham Parker
    9 Rise Above It
    10 Picture A Life
    11 Stylin' Feat. Sulene Fleming
    12 Deeper Love (Opolopo Remix) Feat. Paul Weller
    13 The Light In Us (Soul Weekender Remix) Feat. Laville

    Stone Foundation Feat. Paul Weller

    Deeper Love

      Following the release of their brand new top 40 album "Is Love Enough?”, Stone Foundation return with their 3rd 7” release of the year. Featuring regular collaborator Paul Weller on lead vocals, Deeper Love boasts a Balearic funk groove and one of Weller’s best ever vocal performances. Limited to 1,000 copies worldwide, certain to sell out quickly. Unmissable!

      TRACK LISTING

      A1. Deeper Love (feat. Paul Weller)
      B1. Love’s Getting Deeper (Good Vibes Mix)

      Stone Foundation

      Everybody, Anyone

        Everybody, Anyone features 11 new songs and as before, there’s a sprinkling of guest musicians who feature on the album including Kathryn Williams, Dr Robert, Mick Talbot, Steve White, & The Average White Band’s Hamish Stuart. And unable to stay away, Paul Weller (who produced and featured on the last album) sneaks back in with a bit of piano, guitar and BVs on a couple of tracks. The Midlands based band’s 5th studio album was recorded at Paul Weller’s Black Barn Studios in Surrey and produced by Stone Foundation founding members Neil Jones and Neil Sheasby and engineered by Charles Rees.

        The band, buoyed & encouraged by the reception to their last album Street Rituals (chart position: 25), have taken a slightly different direction and hit upon a creative formula that clearly works. After a long period of extensive touring, which included headline shows at Shepherds Bush Empire and a storming set at Glastonbury, the band were so stoked that they went straight back to the studio to start work on Everybody Anyone while the creative juices were still flowing.

        Everybody, Anyone sees a harder, heavier funk vibe than it’s predecessor but with the great grooves comes great songs. Talking about the album, bassist Neil Sheasby says: “In recent years I’ve heard a lot of records with great grooves but there’s no song, the message & melodies were still key to the records creation. To me it sounds like a very cohesive collection of tunes, a body of work that hangs well as a complete album. The next natural step for Stone Foundation” 


        The bands 4th studio album was produced by Paul Weller, who also features on all the tracks (piano, guitar & vocal including lead vocal on ‘Your Balloon Is Rising’). Having been hugely impressed by Stone Foundations previous endeavours, Paul personally contacted the band to propose the idea of working together, initially on one specific track, but having enjoyed the process so much, the resulting ten compositions on ‘Street Rituals’ now all have musical input from Paul. Two songs - ‘The Limit of a Man’ & ‘Colour Of’ - are co-writes with a Jones/Sheasby/Weller credit.

        Stone Foundation’s Neil Jones commented: "Paul contacted us at the start of 2016 after hearing our last record. He wanted to know if we'd like to get involved with a demo he'd been working on and we obviously grasped the opportunity with both hands. ‘The Limit of a Man’ was born out of those early exchanges and from that point onwards we never looked back". Neil Sheasby added “Paul pretty much joined the band for the recording sessions, playing guitar, piano and adding vocals to several songs as well as overseeing the production of the record.”

        Elsewhere on the album there are stunning contributions from legendary soul singers William Bell, who lends his voice to ‘Strange People’, and the unmistakable tones of Bettye Lavette, providing the lead on ‘Season of Change’. The collaboration between Stone Foundation and these internationally celebrated artists cements the bands incredible reputation as one of the finest British Soul bands in existence.

        With an extraordinary history of constant surprises and success against the odds, ‘Street Rituals’ feels like the culmination of years of hard work paying off for Stone Foundation as they continue to develop their unique style of soul on a much broader scale. Subtle horn & string arrangements add glorious swathes of colour and light to a new collection of songs that are unquestionably the groups strongest to date. Co-writers and founding members Neil Jones and Neil Sheasby have consciously delivered thought provoking lyrics that reflect current issues of uncertainty and division, but smartly balance that with a prevailing sense of hope and optimism within their musical delivery.

        "These are dark, dark times so I was glad to hear a positive voice and vibrations in the words and a joy in the music...what a pleasure and a privilege it was to work with these fellas". “It’s their best songwriting to date, and I just hope people get to hear it because there are some great tunes and I like the message on the record. I like the social comment, because you have so little of that these days.” - Paul Weller on the band and record

        TRACK LISTING

        CD
        1) Back In The Game (feat. Paul Weller)
        2) Open Your Heart To The World
        3) Love Rediscovered
        4) The Limit Of A Man
        5) The Colour Of...
        6) Street Rituals (feat. Paul Weller)
        7) Strange People (feat. William Bell)
        8) Your Balloon Is Rising (feat. Paul Weller)
        9) Season Of Change (feat. Bettye LaVette)
        10) Simplify The Situation

        CD+DVD
        CD Same As Above
        DVD
        1) The Making Of Street Rituals
        2) Back In The Game [In-studio Performance]
        3) Your Balloon Is Rising [in-studio Performance]
        4) Strange People [In-studio Performance]

        LP
        Side A
        1) Back In The Game (feat. Paul Weller)
        2) Open Your Heart To The World
        3) Love Rediscovered
        4) The Limit Of A Man
        5) The Colour Of...

        Side B
        6) Street Rituals (feat. Paul Weller)
        7) Strange People (feat. William Bell)
        8) Your Balloon Is Rising (feat. Paul Weller)
        9) Season Of Change (feat. Bettye LaVette)
        10) Simplify The Situation


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