Tortured Soul (Ethan White Tribute Mix)
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This is a sad time for all soulful house & Jazz lovers as some people may not be aware that Ethan White the keyboard player for Tortured Soul has passed away at the age of 39 .
It\\u2019s my way of showing my respect to his family and band members of uploading this mix that I did back in 2009. They are still one of my favourite live bands that i\\u2019ve seen.
Here is extract from Soul Tracks.
As we wrote about them when they broke out a decade ago: It would be an understatement to say that Soul Music and House Music have not always peacefully coexisted. To many Soul purists, House (like Disco before it) was like a musical one-night stand. It often tried to capture specific pleasurable elements of Soul but ended up gutting much of the emotional element that Soul brings -- you could dance to it, but you didn't feel it inside. And it didn't help that much of House was overtly mechanical and lyrically vacuous, removing the human and spiritual elements that were at the heart of Soul. Into this mix Tortured Soul came, with the premise of creating Live House Music. Tortured Soul's goal was to bring additional Jazz and Soul elements to House (hence, the appropriate group name), and to move the genre beyond the mechanistic and into a more interesting and listenable blend. Make no mistake, Tortured Soul's music is directly aimed at the dance floor, and that's okay. But they have pulled off the impressive feet of making music that's also engaging outside of the club -- something that is just as fun to listen to in your car or your house.
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