Piaggio Soul Combination, Lakeetra Knowles

The Piaggio Soul Combination is a musical collective hailing from Pisa, Tuscany, where long-standing mod Marco Piaggio Piaggesi combined the best singers and musicians of the local Latin-soul scene.Mixing Italian, American and Caribbean musicians, the band builds solid polyrhythms, adding upon this foundation tasty basslines and groove-laden guitars. A tight-as-hell horn-section and a fat organ sound complete the picture, offering a boiling pot of soul grooves, up-tempos, latin-Jazz movers and what you could call Northern Soul.The collectives third opus, the straightforwardly titled Soultimate, their debut for Area Pirata, was produced by writer, musician and sometime Blow Up club DJ Andy Lewis (Paul Weller, Fay Hallam) with the dancefloor in mind. Presented as a gatefold double 12" 45rpm set, featuring four sides of all original stompers, Soultimate is custom-made for soul DJs and the allnighter scene around the world.Soultimate is preceded by the single/video Hang On.