Poets Of Rhythm – Serengeti Stroke
In a year where there have been a wealth of fantastic “retro” soul releases, it’s hard to believe that there used to be a time when “new” soul music didn’t quite sound so good. The Poets Of Rhythm came up at a period of time before the analog purists of Desco, Soul Fire, Daptone and related labels started to churn out music that could be legitimately mistaken for recordings made during the heydays of soul in the 1960s and 1970s. Daptone has done them a real solid in this anthology collecting work from the 1990s until the band effectively disbanded in 2003. “Serengeti Stroke” is just one of the gems put out by the Poets of Rhythm and collected herein.