The Selected Works series on NuNorthern Soul began as a practical response to a stalled compilation project. What started with direct collaboration with Ryo Kawasaki evolved into a selective framework for revisiting important catalogues through trust, access and dialogue. Each release is artist-led, carefully licensed, contextualised through in-depth sleeve notes, and presented with hand-cut stencil artwork by Chris Maude. Selected Works moves slowly by design, documenting mu

The new kids on the block may have something going on but it’s not Balearic: not in origin, not in style, not in attitude. It doesn’t have that feeling.

NuNorthern Soul’s latest retrospective, Pili Pili – Selected Works 1984–2002, celebrates Jasper Van’t Hof’s groundbreaking Afro-fusion collective and the hand-crafted sleeve art by Manchester’s Chris Maude. Blending music and visual craft, Maude’s layered stencil technique and earthy palette reflect Pili Pili’s rhythmic energy and spiritual warmth — a perfect harmony between sound, story and design.