Music blog Soul Bounce have a great 1st play feature on Cool Million’s brand new single Without Your Love ft Kenny Thomas, which the band previewed last week.
Check it out here:
http://soulbounce.com/soul/2012/02/what_would_we_do_without_cool_million.php
Following their critically acclaimed album Back For More, Germany’s Cool Million (aka Rob Hardt & Frank Ryle) return with a stunning new single Without Your Love featuring the one and only Kenny Thomas!
The boys have just uploaded an exclusive snippet of the single, which you can check out here:
Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/cool-million-production/cool-million-ft-kenny-thomas
Without Your Love will be available April 9th on Sed Soul … and we hear that remixes from Dave Doyle will be coming soon.
You can catch Cool Million on the forthcoming Soul on the Road UK tour kicking-off March 7th alongside Tom Glide, Soul Talk, Westcoast Soulstars. Further deets and booking links on the tour here:
http://soulfoodpr.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/soul-on-the-road/
With modern soul music growing its audience in recent years, Soul On The Road are happy to present some of the best talent around for a musical showcase, which will keep your fingers clicking all week.
With Cool Million, Tom Glide, Soul Talk and Westcoast Soulstars all coming together to give you a night you won’t forget, time to put on those dancing shoes and get a group of friends organised, with 5 venues across the country you will experience a night filled with Modern & Classic Soul.
Soul On The Road will kick off on 7th March in Margate, 8th March in Glasgow, 9th March in Stockport, 10th March in Newcastle and finally 11th March in London.
SOTR wants to promote new talent and share their music with soulful ears. An organic idea that grew with all involved because of their mutal friendships, with various gigs already having gone extremely well it was the next step to take this family of bands on the road.
Further info at: http://www.soulontheroad.com
It’s going to be a hot show!
The two founders of Cool Million (Rob Hardt & Frank Ryle) join forces on a new exciting house music project as The Defloristics. The duo’s first release, is the beautiful single Because Of You featuring Laura Jackson.
The single will be backed up by a full album in early 2012, featuring various vocalists.
The concept for The Defloristics is pretty much in the same vain as with the two gents Cool Million project – only this time the two are aiming for a soulful house sound with elements of jazz and bossa as well.
This release come with 3 mixes, including a laidback summer bossa mix (Brazilian Waxing Mix), perfect for the loungebar or livingroom.
Listen to the main mix here:
http://soundcloud.com/cool-million-production/the-defloristics-feat-laura
Watch the video here:
Because Of You is out now on all download platforms via SedSoul Records.
Cool Million’s Rob Hardt is in the UK for a whistle-stop visit to talk about the forthcoming Christmas at Sed Soul album, featuring Eugene Wilde, Ann Sexton, Robert Walker, Peggi Blu, and Noel McKoy (whose cut This One’s For You has been earmarked as a single!).
You can hear Rob being interviewed live on Solar Radio at midday today!
Listen here: http://www.solarradio.com
Tonight he’ll be talking to Stretch Taylor on Colourful Radio 9pm-midnight:
Listen here: http://www.colourfulradio.com
Finally, Jazz FM will be running a special show at a later date. More news on this and the Christmas album soon.
In the meantime … set your dials!
Congratulations to Cool Million who won gongs for Best Global Artist/Group AND Best Soul Album for Back For More at last Saturday’s Soul Survivors Awards 2010!
Each award was voted for by readers of the Soul Survivors magazine … so it’s great to see so much love for the boys and their album out in the soul world!
Also, much love goes to Teena Marie, who won the Best Soul Concert award for her now LEGENDARY show at London’s O2 in January!
You can see the full list of winners, catch-up more on the event, and find out info on the latest issue of the magazine at:
Congrats again on the double whammy, guys. Much desereved, and here’s to many more!
Meli’sa Morgan has been speaking to the fantastic soulmusic.com about her amazing career and working with Cool Million on the Back For More album!
Here’s a taster:
“Actually, Frank from Cool Million approached me first, and he actually approached me on Myspace — which, you never think those things work, but they really do. He found me on Myspace and we started talking, and then he emailed me the song, and I wrote some lyrics to it, and we arranged that when Rob, who was the actual producer came into town, that I would go into the studio with him and do the song, and that’s how it came about. It’s a wonderful thing…”
Read the interview and get the podcast link here:
There’s a great new interview with Rob Hardt from Cool Million at Blues & Soul online.
As ever, B&S writer Pete Lewis comes up trumps, bringing the best out of the artists he interviews.
Here’s a choice excerpt:
“The music that’s most influenced me as a musician has always been the disco/R&B/soul of the late-Seventies/early-Eighties – mainly because of the great vocals that those artists delivered back then. Plus I always loved the whole ‘I wanna go out tonight and have fun’-type vibe of it. Which is something I miss a lot in the R&B of TODAY – where instead everything and everybody is so cool, and nobody’s really SHAKING anything! So for me it felt like a great combination – to keep the vibe alive and work with legends that I’ve always loved from the Eighties, while also bringing in some new people who don’t wanna record with those autotune-type effects on their voice that are so popular today… And it ended up being a really fun project, where we had a lotta freedom to work with brilliant artists who could deliver great vocals to our tracks. You know, everything flowed very easily; there were no big heads… In fact it was one of the easiest jobs I’ve ever HAD as a producer!”
Good stuff!
Read in full here:
http://www.bluesandsoul.com/feature/531/cool_million_ice_ice_baby/
Cool Million’s new album Back For More has been receiving praise across the board since its release.
The latest review from Soul Tracks continues the trend!
They write: “Back for More would be worth the price of admission if only for Wilde’s great take on the title track, a cut that sounds like a long lost Kashif smash. The track is uber infectious and Wilde nails it vocally, as he does on the Alexander O’Neal/Cherelle-like duet with his sister Dee Dee, “Loose.” Not far behind are funk workouts by Burgess (“Cool to Make a Million”), Morgan (“Sweet Baby”) and Rena Scott (“Come to Me”). Among the newcomers, Aussie beauty Jeniqua deftly handles the adult midtempo, “Making Love,” Paul Mac Innes delivers the horn-filled number “Back Together” and Chicago’s Yvonne Gage is wonderful on ”Hurry Home.” “
Read the review in full here:
http://www.soultracks.com/review-cool-million-back-for-more
Also, look out for Rob Hardt’s all-time Top 5 soul tracks coming exclusively to Soul Food next week!
The incredibly talented Rob Hardt, one half of Cool Million, recently sat down with us at Soul Food to talk about the new record Back For More.
As you can imagine, we had plenty of questions!
It was the time of music that influenced us. We were young men going out to clubs, and falling in love for the first time. So the 80s soul was the soundtrack to our lives back in the day. We would love to work with Kenni Burke, George Benson, Stevie Wonder, Jocelyn Brown and 500 more artists. What a gent! Thanks Rob!
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