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Review: Shafiq Husayn is exactly the guide you want on a journey into parts unknown with his instinctive blend of spiritual jazz, funk, soul and hip hop swagger. After delivering EPs to Eglo in the past, "The Loop" dropped last year as a career highlight from a man with Sa-Ra Creative Partners on his CV. Now you can take a fresh trip back into the record for the instrumental takes, and you'd best believe these beats are packed with enough luxurious detail you might have missed on hearing the vocal takes. Look out for the wonderfully loose, bugging instrumentation of "Mrs Crabtree" to the classic Stevie Wonder-ready soul drive of "Message In A Bottle", but really there's gold spilling out of every bar of this stunning release.

Review: Shafiq Husayn has been a driving force on the Los Angeles music scene for decades. He is a producer, songwriter and vocalist who is part of the agenda setting trio Sa-Ra Creative Partners and has produced for greats like Erykah Badu, Robert Glasper, Ice-T, Bilal and Jurassic 5. The Grammy winner is also leader of the expansive The Dove Society collective with whom he links here for a new album So Gold. It's an eclectic, love-fulled fusion of jazz, cosmic soul, hip hop and r&b that is packed with lush musicianship, smooth vocal flows and timeless grooves.