Formed in 1999, Spiritual South is the brainchild of Mark Robertson, a deejay, producer and ‘mad about music’ collector. Mark grew up in London, turned on by the jazz funk movement in 80’s and tuned in to the pirate radio stations who were championing, the whole rare-groove, funk and jazz-dance genres to an otherwise acoustically starved youth in and around the Capital. His passion led him to dig deeper into other jazz-centric music, discovering sounds which blurred boundaries between Afro-American music and the rhythms