Lasperanza - Seeds (2019)

LASPERANZA is the brainchild of UK producer/musician Rico Garofalo. Since beginning his career as a sax player he has always dreamed of creating an album on which he would reimagine and reconfigure some of his favourite soul/jazz songs from the Seventies and Eighties. Seeds is the result. I wanted to change the arrangements, either from a rhythmic or harmonic aspect, while always keeping a soul/jazz flavour. give the songs a new lease of life rather than just a fresh lick of paint. Lead single It Should Have Been You, featuring vocalist Izzy Chase, is a sultry mid-tempo reinvention of a Gwen Guthrie disco era tune, while other songs newly reimagined for 2019 include Early Morning Love (Lou Rawls), Under The Moon And Over The Sky (Angela Bofill), Working Day and Night (Michael Jackson), Give Me The Night (George Benson), Kilimanjaro 8232;(Letta Mbulu) and In The Mood (Tyrone Davis). Eight UK vocalists - and one American - are featured on the album, which is receiving strong advance airplay and very favourable critical reaction from Jazz FM, BBC Radio London, Mi-Soul, Echoes magazine, Hollands Sublime FM and influential US website soultracks.com, among others. The band will be playing select live dates in the UK this summer.