Soul time! Not Brothers of Soul or “I shall devour your eternal soul” or souls-like-soul, but the groovy rhythm & blues kind with horn instruments and a vintage twist.

SOUL DUTY is the title, and why not!

To be a little more specific, I think the song is “algreenish soul”, without the magnificent vocals of course. It’s got very laid-back groove, something I connect with Al G. There’s also a teeny-weeny latin vibe going. You know the shaker and the rhythmic brass stuff.

Al is a rare occasion when I prefer listening best of-record rather than “real” albums, ‘cos there are a good bunch of mediocre songs in those albums. But you know, it happens when you record an album or two every year.

They really used to work back then. For example, in 1972 Deep Purple released an album, recorded an album to be released the following year, and played 126 shows around the world!

Modern artists, show some effort!

ETERNAL HYMN was a good 80% done, when I signaled a timeout. There was just too much happening in there. So, I removed the B-part altogether and expanded the original idea to cover the whole piece.

I picked up the B-part from the cutting room floor, because you never delete anything that can be used later, and then forgot the whole sketch until now. To be perfectly honest, it sounded like crap, so my decision to not include it turned out to be the correct one.

Maybe there’s something in there. Maybe the lump of dirt can be refined into a beautiful work of art. Maybe not.

We shall see.

Anyway, our tune of today is meditational synthesizer stuff with big chords. It’s everywhere and it has no hurry of going anywhere. So it’s like common cold.

What? No autumn pop this year?

Well shoot.

Instead we got TRIPLA. It’s pop rock, which should suffice. It may be a little more happy than normally, but whatever. It’s not like I have official rules regarding our famous autumn pop or anything.

Official rules for songs to be considered Autumn Pop (TM):

1) Must include guitars (mostly real physical ones)
2) Overall more plaintive than cheerful mood
3) Released during thermal autumn
4) Rules may be bent like those twisty balloons at the carnival

Yay! Rules!