Diplomats Of Solid Sound - A Higher Place (2019)

Pravda Records proudly presents the sixth full-length by Iowa City Ambassadors of groove The Diplomats Of Solid Sound, entirely mixed and edited at The Magic Barn in Iowa City and inspired by the sounds of the best 60s style soul and funk. Having already cut 5 full-length albums, "Instrumental Action Soul" (Prescription Records - 2001), "Let´s Cool One"(Estrus Records - 2003), "Destination Get Down!" (Estrus Records - 2005), self-titled Diplomats Of Solid Sound featuring The Diplomettes (Pravda Records/Record Kicks 2008), and What Goes Around, Comes Around , the band is just getting warmed up. A Higher Place is chock full of irresistible funk and soul bombs ready to melt your heart or make you shake it on the dance-floor, strongly confirming their standing in the contemporary funk and neo-soul scene.

THE DIPLOMATS OF SOLID SOUND are a hard-gigging 60s style soul band from Iowa and they've just released their sixth long player…. 'A Higher Place'. The group vocalists Sarah Cram, Katherine Ruestow and Abbie Sawyer , keyboardist Nate "Count" Basinger , drummer Forrest Heusinkveld , sax man Eddie MacKinley, guitarist Douglas Roberson and bassist Ben Soltau though not an household name is big on Spotify ; the Diplomats are stars even …. with an excess of 20 million streams of their music to date! Their Spotify followers will find plenty to stream on 'A Higher Place' as the soundscape is very much what the band has always delivered their modern take on organic, brassy, 60s soul sort of half way between Aussie band The Bamboos and the whole Daptone thing. Best examples to sum up their sound is the organ-led 'Crazy About You' and the sweeter 'Fool' with an intro that borrows just a little something from 'Baby I Need Your Loving'. 'A Higher Place' is out now on CD, vinyl, digital and available to stream! –Soul and Jazz and Funk



Track List:
01 – Common Ground
02 – Crazy About You
03 – Good to Do
04 – Sometimes
05 – Gotta Find That Man
06 – Move On
07 – Already Gone
08 – Fool
09 – Brave New World
10 – Hole in Your Soul
11 – Take Some Pity on Me Baby
12 – Dry Land

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