L'Orange - Old Soul (Orange & Black Splatter Vinyl)

Orange & Black Splatter Vinyl

The first vinyl pressing of Old Soul, on orange and black splatter in an edition of 200. The record has existed only digitally since 2011.

L'Orange is Austin Hart, a producer from North Carolina who spent most of the last decade on Mello Music Group and founded his own label, Old Soul Music, in 2023. This was his debut, built entirely from samples of Billie Holiday recordings, with each track shaped around a chapter of her working life. He opens his note on the record plainly: "Billie Holiday is my muse."

The method is the one he has worked in since: pre-1950s jazz, soul and radio recordings run through an MPC, with the surface noise of the source left audible rather than cleaned away.

Hassaan Mackey, yU and Kelsey Lu appear on "Lost Souls" — Lu several years before her own records for Columbia. Blu features on the closing bonus track, "Cafe Lover," heard above.

Tracklist

1. The Good Shepherd
2. Lost Souls (feat. Hassaan Mackey, yU & Kelsey Lu)
3. Her Sins
4. Halliday
5. The Audition
6. Cafe Society
7. Know Love
8. The Heroine
9. The Night
10. The Mourning
11. Cafe Lover (feat. Blu)