Soil & Pimp Sessions - Stoned Pirates Radio (2010)

The internationally active jazz band SOIL & “PIMP” SESSIONS have finally announced a new release, this time for a jazz cover album titled “SOIL & “PIMP” SESSIONS presents Stoned Pirates Radio.”

The band wants to give the cover album the feel of a pirated radio show mix tape, quite a unique concept for a jazz release. The entire album won’t be singular songs, but one flowing piece that will be narrated by a the voice of a yet unnamed foreign DJ. It will have short skits by the members and even made up commercials in between the segments.

In all the ‘mix tape’ will come out to a long 70 minutes of continuous sound. The songs that will be playing in the faux radio broadcast will be famous movie themes and other songs that music fans of all ages will be able to recognize. SOIL & “PIMP” SESSIONS won’t just limit it to jazz either. They will expand the music out into reggae, soca, and ska sounds to explore new genres. It will still maintain the band’s sound, but will certainly sound a bit different.

This is certainly a really interesting concept for an album release, one that will get who don’t even follow the band interested as well. For fans, this is made all the sweeter as the group hasn’t put out a release in over a year due to their international activities.