What is soul music? Soul is a feeling you get in your gut when the message is coming to you straight. When the band is sweating and the singer is teetering at the edge of rapture. When the horns are peeling, the bass is pounding, the guitar is chanking, and the drummer is playing hard but true. When each part sits in just the right place and the whole thing comes together like a puzzle. Dojo Cuts play soul music. Their arrangements unfold with discipline and taste, never overplayed or falling into the common clichés of many "funk" bands. Over and into the wholes – the tiny but mighty empty spaces between the notes – vocalist Sarsha pours her heart out for her listeners. The performances show a perfect balance of self-control and spontaneity that are captured artfully by the bold rawness of the recording process.