All Rize – Got Soul?
Visit Their WebsiteMay you bless house music, ooh lawd we pray… Is this the house music revival I have prayed would materialize? Some of the downtown Greenwich Village sound familiar to my ears, body, and soult? Conjure up Jocelyn Brown, Connie Harvey, Larry Levan, Gwen Guthrie, et al; this is New York City-style house music from a Philly duo and perspective, thus the name of the label. Read on and feel what I mean. It is amusing to see Helen and Terry on the CD cover, each wearing huge 1970s-style Afro hairdos (or wigs), walking up out of a subway station. “All Rize Got Soul? Then Dance” [Philerzy 001] just may fill the house and floor while singing praises to the God of the dance club… but as these things go, nothing is for sure here. I like how the song “(I need) M-O-N-E-Y” rocks steady, as most of All Rize does; the choruses throughout are kind of churchy, which puts me on the proverbial fence. Listening overall however, I get the feeling
