The golden voice of Nick Romillie aka Colonel Red had already been heard on productions by Beatless, Alex Attias, IG Culture, Gerd, Delgui and The Flowriders before he started his debut CD. On Blue Eye Blak he brings together the best of souls like Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield and Al Green and younger soul gods like Prince and D'Angelo. The strength of Colonel Red is not so much in virtuoso strokes,
… but in perfectly dosed vocal layers that evoke a chilling subcutaneous tension while the accompaniment track continues uninterrupted. Unlike most neosoul artists, Red dares to ramp up the tempo instead of the usual slow 13-in-a-dozen tempo. And he has no trouble at all to keep the feeling in the right place. It is therefore not for nothing that this man has been welcomed by DJs such as Gilles Peterson, Patrick Forge, Benji B, Jazzanova and Bugz In The Attic. They have rightly realized that Blue Eye Blak is the soul album of 2005. (AD)more
