Soul comes in many shapes and sounds and comes at you from a hundred different angles and places. Philadelphia’s got an overabundance of it. Always had (thank you Gamble & Huff), Always will. Must be something in the water. Mutlu Onaral must have drunk a whole lot of that water growing up. He may be more R & F (rhythm & folk) than R & Blue. You can even add the bounce of the Brazilian and the sway of the Jamaican in his tunes. But the 27 year old singer, instrumentalist and composer, known to everyone as Mutlu, has always sounded as if he’s been drunk on the Philly punch that makes the funk flow.
