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Label: Colemine Records – CLMN-12038
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: US
Released: Jul 11, 2025
Genre: Jazz, Funk / Soul
Style: R&B, Soul
*Standard black vinyl
Listen to samples on Bandcamp
Leroi Conroy – A Tiger's Tale [LP]
A1: Shere's Theme
A2: Tiger Trot
A3: Snowcat
A4: Abiding
A5: Jacqueline
B1: Enter
B2: Panthera Cry
B3: Path Of Man
B4: ExitusMedia: Sealed
Sleeve: MintWhen evaluating the condition of used items we do both visual and play grading. Sealed and Mint items are only visual graded. We try to conservatively grade all records. More on our record grading criteria here.
Steeped in equal parts golden age hip-hop sensibilities and lost 60s and 70s film scores, the debut LP from Leroi Conroy weighs in heavy and has been years in the making. The first two tracks from the album were released in 2017 as a 45, which were sampled in the years that followed by DJ Premier, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Macklemore, Phantogram, and more. But after its release, Terry Cole aka Leroi Conroy spent much of his time growing his indie soul label Colemine Records and producing records for others (Okonski, Parlor Greens, Wesley Bright, Black Market Brass, Kendra Morris, Rudy De Anda, Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, Andrew Gabbard) as opposed to his own.
Now, eight years after many of the rhythm tracks were put to tape on the trusted Tascam 388, Leroi Conroy’s debut LP, A Tiger’s Tale, will be released. The album is conceptualized as a hypothetical soundtrack to an alternate telling of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. The narrative here being man’s quest to tame and bend nature to his will...and nature’s response. The album is a mix of triumphant instrumental scores alongside absolutely grim, dark, and at times dissonant moody tracks. The underlying element of hip-hop’s sample culture is obvious throughout and there’s no doubt many of these tracks will be flipped in the years to come.
Sonically, the record fits right in the cut alongside many other Colemine instrumental artists: dirty lo-fi drums, blaring horns, wah guitar, Hammond organ, and plenty of cinematic sprinklings like flute, nylon guitar, and vibraphone. Drums are courtesy of Cole’s longtime collaborator Rob Houk and are truly the backbone of the record. And with a couple of features from Colemine artists Kelly Finnigan and Jimmy James, the record is truly a family affair. File under: To Be Sampled