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The Soultrend Orchestra is a side project of the producer and musician Nerio ‘Papik’ Poggi. Owner of the main project, Papik, Nerio Poggi has been one of the most internationally renowned Italian producers for the Nu Jazz Lounge sound for over ten years, with around forty albums under his own name and those produced by him with solo artists or with monothematic collections such as the ‘Cocktail’ series. With the project The Soultrend Orchestra, Nerio Poggi has dedicated himself in particular to the Soul Jazz and Disco sound, with a particular eye on the 70s/80s sound that starts from artists such as Roy Ayers, George Benson and Donald Byrd to arrive at the Acid Jazz sound of Incognito and The Brand New Heavies. The first album '84 King Street', released in 2017, was the one most dedicated to the Disco sound, also for the title that reports the address of the legendary New York club Paradise Garage from where Disco music in the late 70s was definitively launched all over the world by the deejays David Mancuso and Larry Levan in primis. With the second album of 2022 'Live For Funk' the sound ranges more towards Soul and Jazz thanks to some songs that have dri ven it such as About Love openly inspired by the sound of Roy Ayers. This third album, produced like the second Live For Funk together with Peter De Girolamo (aka P.A. Jeron) is due out at the begin ning of 2025 and is titled Non Imagine where he continues in the search for these same sounds. With some of his closest collaborators such as Alfredo Bochicchio, Massimo Guerra, Simone ‘Federicuccio’ Talone and vocalists Laura Lanzillo, Erika Scherlin and Anna Fondi, the album as always also has other illustrious guests such as Wendy D. Lewis, Ely Bruna, Nadyne Rush, Filippo Perbellini, Stevie Biondi and Nicole Magolie on lead vocals. In the tracking list we also find some covers in this album: Lost In Music, a symbolic song of Disco by Neil Rodgers and Bernad Edwards (Chic) made famous in the 70s by Sister Sledge, and Summer Madness, a very particular song by Kool And The Gang, famous for its magical atmosphere here perfectly rendered by Peter De Girolamo's keyboards and Anna Fondi's voice.

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