Gene Van Buren - Whats Your Pleasure (Reissue, Remastered) (1982/2009)

Gene van Buren's is one of the best kept secrets in black music with his one and only album What's Your Pleasure from 1982. With a voice similar to Glenn Jones, intensive and passionate, Van Buren delivered a very strong debut with a mix of soul and funk. Among the fast tracks are two fantastic smokers that exceed the rest by a far margin in Enjoy Yourself and Rock The House. The rest of the LP also includes the funky Action and I Give You Good Love with a touching song effort. Buren also manage to deliver three excellent ballads in When Is My Turn (with a short and blissful Toots Thieleman inspired passage), I Love You More (Than I Hate What You Do) and One, all performed with sensitivity and finesse.