.DaptoneRecords has launched Penrose Records, an imprint of contemporary bands dedicated to performing the ballads, sweet soul and midtempo tunes made famous in Southern California
. The group's Penrose releases are the hypnotic, falsetto-laden “Over and Over" and a smoky-sweet groover, “When You Go ” — the video for which is premiered below:Gabe’s kind of sound and the whole Daptone thing has been on the East Coast; it’s kind of the standard you had to meet,”They’ve always been a little more in-house, and I think they’re going a different route… starting to look at younger talent. Their New York crew is out there is doing their thing...
Penrose will still feature OG Daptone musicians and some new family friends. Roth and guitarist/producer Tom Brenneck perform with Altadena’s Gabriel Rowland and Victor Benavides as Los Yesterdays; the band will release their “Tell Me I’m Dreaming” b/w “Miami-based Jason Joshua, who performs scorching ballads and Latin soul as the leader of Jason Joshua and The Beholders, connected with Roth through Adam Scone – an organist who performed with proto-Daptone soul jazz group The Sugarman Three . Joshua’s single, the uptempo, guiro-laced “Language of Love,” is exemplary of the breath of influences that compliment sweet soul.
,” Joshua says, adding that Daptone is his favorite label. “But I was always into the sweet soul and Chicano culturethese slow-a--, heart-wrenching ballads. Miami is such an uptempo BPM place; I was always getting kicked out of clubs for playing that stuff.”, there is a generations-long appreciation for sweet soul music among California’s Latino communities.
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