Avaialable from Mr Bongo on vinyl LP and CD https://www.mrbongo.com/products/the-sylvers-ii-vinyl-lp-cdThis is a masterpiece. And we mean it. Beautiful, golden-era soul written by Leon Sylvers III, produced by Jerry Butler and Keg Johnson.

The Sylvers were a family from Los Angeles who were very successful during the 70’s and into the early 80’s, with chart hits – deep into pop-disco territory by then! – including ‘Boogie Fever’, ‘Hot Line’ and ‘High School Dance’.

This is the groups second album, from 1973, and is one of their strongest. Opening with the awesome mid-tempo ‘We Can Make It If We Try’ the record moves through funk, boogie and deep soul moods, finishing on a hazy, acapella version of The Beatles ‘Yesterday’.

The Sylvers always provide a goldmine of samples. This album has been flipped by Madlib (for MF DOOM), Homeboy Sandman, 50 Cent, Ghostface Killah, Black Milk, Roc Marciano, David Banner & 9th Wonder and more.

Official Mr Bongo reissue. Replica original artwork. Licensed from Pride Inc. 2006.

The Sylvers II

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Môrice is a curious little frenchie that found the meaning of life in record digging. He likes to share strange-groovy-lovely things from his record shelves, because music is all about sharing. On the side, he studies graphic design at the WdKA in Rotterdam, reads a lot of books and tries to perfect his terrible sense of humor.

As for now, he runs a monthly show on operator-radio.com that you can listen to here: https://operator-radio.com/artists/mrice

If you are lucky, you might see him playing in small gigs in Rotterdam or crate-digging in Lyon, his hometown in France!

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