{"id":11718,"date":"2015-06-29T16:57:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T15:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=11718"},"modified":"2015-06-30T09:14:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T08:14:44","slug":"introducing-stone-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/06\/introducing-stone-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing: Stone Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image003.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11719\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/06\/introducing-stone-foundation\/image003\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image003.jpg?fit=682%2C261&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"682,261\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image003\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image003.jpg?fit=640%2C245&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" size-full wp-image-11719 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image003.jpg?resize=640%2C245&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"image003\" width=\"640\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cStone Foundation are a group of seven like minded individuals that team together to make an exciting blend of Soul and Jazz influenced music\u201d reads an excerpt from a couple of paragraphs into the about section on their busy Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The group appear to have been very active for a number of years gigging and recording, with their previous album \u2018To Find The Spirit\u2019 charting in the UK top 40. Working from their own rural midlands based studio the group craft a soulful and dynamic sound laced with feelings of warmth and nostalgia and this approach certainly appears to be moving them in the right direction, with 2015 looking to be Stone Foundation\u2019s biggest and most important year to date. The 7th August sees the release of their album \u2018A Life Unlimited\u2019 (released June 2015 in Japan through P-Vine Records) which, if the quality of the first single release \u2018Beverley\u2019 is anything to go by, promises to be a great soulful, summertime listen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018Beverley\u2019 definitely harbours that blend of Soul and Jazz with plenty more thrown in for good measure. The musicianship is top notch and the recording quality is excellent which gives it a modern but slightly vintage feel. The highlights of the track for me are the smooth horn section and also the exceptional voice of Neil Jones who sounds strong yet effortless on this track. I generally dislike making too many comparisons when writing about music but it does bring to mind the feel of The Monophonics or even Smoove and Turrell, albeit without the raw feel and edginess.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MI8cIdqdZFk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The release of this album will be supported by an extensive touring schedule both here and abroad with some interesting dates and venues to watch out for such as Fuji Rock in Tokyo on the 24th of July and the Jazz Cafe in London on the 17th of October.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I for one will be excited to hear \u2018A Life Unlimited\u2019 upon it\u2019s release on August 9th and will definitely be keeping my eyes peeled for any tour dates that happen to appear nearby.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For more info on \u2018Stone Foundation\u2019 and their upcoming album release and tour schedule head over to their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonefoundation.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cStone Foundation are a group of seven like minded individuals that team together to make an exciting blend of Soul and Jazz influenced music\u201d reads an excerpt from a couple of paragraphs into the about section on their busy Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[57,9],"tags":[1904,1903,1905,1356,1180,65,67,77,242,1902,90],"class_list":["post-11718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-artists","category-new-releases","tag-a-life-unlimited","tag-beverley","tag-japan","tag-jazz","tag-jazz-cafe","tag-london","tag-new-artists","tag-new-release","tag-soul","tag-stone-foundation","tag-tokyo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-330","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17712,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/02\/we-weather-the-storm-with-rebecca-jade\/","url_meta":{"origin":11718,"position":0},"title":"We &#8216;Weather The Storm&#8217; With Rebecca Jade","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"04\/02\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Rebecca Jade has been involved in music her entire life, growing up in a musical home with generations of musicians in her family.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;New Artists&quot;","block_context":{"text":"New Artists","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/category\/music\/new-artists\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Rebecca-Jade-1.jpg?fit=960%2C960&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Rebecca-Jade-1.jpg?fit=960%2C960&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Rebecca-Jade-1.jpg?fit=960%2C960&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Rebecca-Jade-1.jpg?fit=960%2C960&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":82887,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2023\/07\/the-train-is-coming-bill-crews-and-the-crews-cartel-cover-the-classic-people-get-ready\/","url_meta":{"origin":11718,"position":1},"title":"The Train Is Coming: Bill Crews and the Crews Cartel Cover The Classic, &#8216;People Get Ready&#8217;","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"21\/07\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"You will no doubt start humming this song from the very title - originally released in 1965 by The Impressions, from their album of the same name, 'People Get Ready' was voted the 122nd greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone in 2021. 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