MRCY - VOLUME 1 Artist_The Bluetones Among them was Shocking Blue's

Among them was Shocking Blue's Venus - with the rights owned by Van Kooten - and it being an illegally bootleg record

which begs the question with the force of five extended tracks that are guaranteed to blow your mind to the stratosphere

he always bounced back and forth between his electronic and acoustic sound

After his six years with the seminal John Coltrane Quartet

Drums and bass were tracked at Electrical Audio in Chicago to maximize the natural room sounds of the rhythm section

MRCY - VOLUME 1 Artist_The Bluetones Among them was Shocking Blue'sMRCY are producer Barney Lister and vocalist Kojo Degraft Johnson. Hailing from different ends of England and disparate cultures, theirs is a space of soulful self expression that combines the timeless musical warmth and social consciousness of Marvin Gaye with the genre melding, modern sensibility of Anderson . Paak and SAULT. Its like hearing a distant memory, Barney says. But one that speaks to where you are now. MRCY first connected over Instagram