Wednesday, February 27, 2008

"A Talent For Loving" Goes Global On iTunes

My new CD has hit the internet with full force for your funk/rock/soul needs.
Just follow these links...

For all my peeps in Great Britain:
"A Talent For Loving"
is now available in the UK in iTunes!

For all my people in Italia:
"A Talent For Loving" is up on the Italian iTunes!

For all of the dancers in Japan:
"A Talent For Loving"
is for sale on the Japanese iTunes!

For all of the lovers in Belgium:
"A Talent For Loving" is there for you at the iTunes Belgique!

For all my soul stirrers in Deutschland:
"A Talent For Loving" is musik all the way live on the German iTunes!

And if you live in a different market from any of the above listed, be sure to check your iTunes, too. Thanks for your support. I really know you will enjoy the album. It's chock full of songs to move and soothe your soul!
Peace & Disco Beats!

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Soul Patrol Reviews "A TALENT FOR LOVING"

Hot off the presses, y'all. Here's the Soul Patrol.com review of "A Talent For Loving." Also included is the introduction to this month's reviews. Enjoy!

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There is something happening right now in America. Right now the United States is caught up in one of those kind of grooves that make us think that maybe, just maybe we can actually become the country that we were supposed to be all along. As a nation we are not able to shake off the hope and promise that the 1960's offered up. Back in the days of dark suits, skinny ties, big hair and black & white TV's, there was a sense that "the impossible was possible." Remember the America that was depicted in the eMpTVy video "R.O.C.K In The USA" by John Cougar Mellencamp?, well that vision of America now seems to be current reality. Face it folks, we are living in special time where the leading Presidential candidate seems to embody the best characteristics of both Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, where the leading musical artist of the day is a big hair British chick who sings 1960's R&B, and that "subversive integrationist", John Cougar Mellencamp is being inducted into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame. So enjoy this time, while we can, it might just be all over with in six months. If you read between the lines of all of these album reviews, you will notice a common thread...

Norman Kelsey - A Talent For Loving
(Funk/Rock/Soul)

Norman Kelsey's album is what I would expect the "first Lenny Kravitz album" to sound like. It's full of better than average rock, soul, funk, pop songs. Simple 3 minute songs with hooks, that you can bop down the boardwalk to while you snap your finger. It's also got a few GREAT songs, that would be automatic hit records if they could be heard by the masses. And it shows a hell of a lot of potential for the artist himself to become a "universal fusion artist." It's the kind of an album that you can put on, leave on and think that you are listening to a Top 40 radio station from back in the day, playing a diverse set of music that somehow all "works together." The album as a whole reminds me of hanging out at the beach all summer and hearing great summer songs coming out of tiny transistor radios, from Memorial Day to Labor Day, that get played on BOTH the Black stations and the white stations. Buy this album now, it gets better and better with each listen, but wait till the summertime to play it for your friends, so that they can become hooked on this album, and not even realize why.