Review: Max Sinàl - Healing EP (Soul Quest Records)

We said "more trumpet" and Soul Quest Records have agreed with thier latest EP by Max Sinàl, 'Healing' and it's delivered in more ways than one!

Following up on Sean Green's 'The Green Room' (see review HERE), Soul Quest's head honcho Max Sinal's returns with another collaboration with KingCrowney (remember 'Intentions' (see review HERE with vocalist Liv East) for a deeply personal look at leftfield synth-jazz Bruk house dancefloor.

By way of background, we're told, "Healing EP is a deeply personal body of work. The project is built around a narrative of Max’s mental health journey, with each track representing a different chapter in his life, moments where his mental wellbeing was tested, reshaped and ultimately strengthened. Sonically, each record inhabits its own distinct space, reflecting the emotional contrasts of those periods, before culminating in a closing statement of healing… a journey that, as Max emphasises, remains ongoing"

And just to prove it, the opener, "Reflecion" goes post-BRUK deep house with busy percussion with warm Lonnie Liston Smith keys and KingCrowney's trumpet mood on top.  If you're a fan of Zachary Berns' 'canvas'/'rendezvous' release (see review HERE) there's a distinct NY/London axis - any reflections on a two-way remix project?

'Maya', named after Sinàl's daughter, is a total change in place with spoken word "reflections" on being a parent (the anti-dote to (Salt Queen - see review HERE) with shufflin' pimng-pong and KingCrowney's trumpet going down the train track - it's great!

'Alone' is another track rooted in West London BRUK legacy with some cool vocals and serious wobble whilst the EP ends on another collaboration with Liv East (following the aformentioned 'Intentions') with the title track 'Healings' which has already been described as, "a genuinely stunning concluding cut".

This is a optimistic release and 'Healing' is you're big club/radio ready tune that's totally supported by the rest of the EP.

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Artist: Max Sinàl

Title: Healing EP

Release date: 1st May, 2026

Label : Soul Quest Records

Catalog Number : SQR021

Format:  12" Vinyl / Digital / Bandcamp

Review: Sean Green - The Green Room (Soul Quest Records)

Soul Quest Records released some big tunes last year and they're started this year with another bursting out of 'The Green Room' with the label's 20th release, it's Sean Green!

"Who?" did you ask - well, me neither and the label ain't telling us!  You might think it's because so big names want's to sneak out an EP 'under the radar' or, I hope, it's because the want the word to spread organically that this is a big deal!

Leading out with 'Really Love' featuring Will Heard it hits you as a classic sound of Peven Everett vs. Viktor Duplaix meets lovetempo vs. Thundercat with some deep organ to funk with the bassline and backing vocals - yes, it's that good!

Following Berkey Hunt's 'A Ghostly Tryst' (see review HERE) and the label head Max Sinal's collaboration with KingCrowney on 'Intentions' (see review HERE with vocalist Liv East), this label knows a leftfield synth-jazz Bruk dancefloor hit - and more!  

And just to prove it, 'Green Alot' gets synth up cosmic funky,  'I'd Rather Be With You' gets soulfully female vocals on the desk a la King Tubby and hold on, what's 'Hold On'?  It's a move into "darker broken beat territory… tense, driving, and hypnotic, rounding off the release with purpose and depth."

By the time I get the call up for We Out Here Festival this year, this EP will have torn up the dancefloor all over so you don't want to be green with envy, order your copy now so you don't miss out - especially if we know who Sean Green is by then!

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Artist: Sean Green

Title: The Green Room

Release date: 27th March, 2026

Label : Soul Quest Records
Catalog Number : SQR020
Format:  12" Vinyl / Digital / Bandcamp

Review: Berkeley Hunt - A Ghostly Tryst (Soul Quest Records)

More Soul Quest Records I hear you call!  We'll we've certainly got a favourite jazzy/leftfield house label as Berkeley Hunt's 'A Ghostly Tryst' is far jollier than the title and comes with a Stefan Ringer remix to give it a full house! 

The original of ‘Wicked Sins’ has a big touch of Cesaria Evora's about it in so much as the vocals/beats cover traditional sounds of Africa and Latin America.  So a good choice to get one of the hotest names in house to up the pace on the remix with Stefan Ringer.  Possibly influenced by the classic Carl Craig remix of 'Angola'? Who knows? But it's an instant must have in the YATM offfice.

But some say "more trumpet"? Well, you certainly get a lot of drums and space-jazz dubiness cramed into 'Lost In The Delirium' which could be post-dnb-prog-bruk-jazz - but definitely one for the adventurous Leftfield jazz dance tent this summer; this is were Miles Davis would be in 2026. 

The opening track, 'It Called' is more of a 'A Ghostly Tryst' in the crypt which is equally in Krog 'n' synth-pop as it is as OST: this 4 tracker in mezmerising in many ways. 

Following the label head Max Sinal's collaboration with KingCrowney on 'Intentions' (see review HERE with vocalist Liv East), this label knows a leftfield synth-jazz Bruk dancefloor hit - and more!  

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Artist: Berkeley Hunt

Title: A Ghostly Tryst

Release date: 25th July, 2025

Label : Soul Quest Records
Catalog Number : SQR014
Format:  Vinyl / Digital / Bandcamp

Review: Max Sinàl & KingCrowney Feat. Liv East - Intentions (Frits Wentink, JT Donladson & Flying Moth Remixes)(Soul Quest Records)

More trumpet I hear you call!  We'll you certainly get a lot with the remixes of the last single release, ‘Intentions’, plus a "resonating" live version of the original cut! 

The original of ‘Intentions’ was a joint  adventure from label head Max Sinal, producer and long-time collaborator KingCrowney with vocalist Liv East. 

We know "producer extraordinaire" Frits Wintink from his work at Wolf Music (see review HERE) and he knows how much trumpet is needed to get the dancefloor moving; and in this case, with just the right about of wobble.

JT Donaldson seems like he must have been remixing since he come outta the dancefloor womb giving us a remix and dub version with some sparkling piano on the deep bassline; the remix itself goes straight for the trumpet/vocal jugular..

Flying Moth has had his own EP out earlier last month, Tide, with a remix by Toronto Hustle x Sean Roman (also seen on Wolf Music with their 'The Symington Avenue' EP - see review HERE) seems to have flown to the light and added it all in in a rapid synth-jazz Bruk; yes, you heard it here first!

And the best of the lot, even bettr than the original is the live version that has a vibe of the recent Jazzanova live re-work album (see review HERE).

Soul Quest have put together a great EP and worthy of a follow-up to the original and another release from earlier this year, 'Soul Notion EP' by Jean-Jez: did someone say, "more trumpet"?

Artist: Max Sinàl & KingCrowney Feat. Liv East

Title:  Intentions (Frits Wentink, JT Donladson & Flying Moth Remixes)

Release date: Digital - 20th June 2025 / Vinyl - 27th June 202

Label : Soul Quest Records
Catalog Number : SQR013
Format:  Vinyl / Digital / Bandcamp