Cellist Walters performs abstract/avant works by Deyoe, Berio, Smith and others, ranging from droning, tapping and slapping. Sounds from a cello that you wouldn’t expect. Advertisements
Gracious works mostly for voice with piano, some lovely instrumentals for duo, or solo piano. Play!
A mash up of the sound of walking, voices, instruments, electronic sounds, animals…
Kyma (visual programming language for sound design according to wikipedia) with altered voices, instruments, sounds.
Mostly gracious, elegant and ethereal pieces based on flute solo or with accompaniment. Play!
An Americana rock artist whose album features great guitar and horn parts. Some tracks have a 60’s rock and roll feel while others are a bit more bluesy. Label: Burger Records Start w/ 1, 4, 6, 9 FCC: Clean RIYL: Black Keys, The Kills, The Growlers, Jack White, Nick Waterhouse
Indie album with catchy electronic sounds and influences from pop and rock music. Label: Self-released Start w/ 3, 4, 6, 7 FCC: 1 RIYL: STRFKR, Naked & Famous, Vampire Weekend, AWOLNATION, fun.
Indie rock debut album for the Australian singer that features fun and upbeat songs. Label: Dead Ocean Start w/ 2, 4, 5, 9 FCC: 1, 6, 8 RIYL: Ali Barter, Montaigne, Gang of Youths, Alex the Astronaut
Jordan Rakei draws influences from jazz, R&B, soul, and pop in this album. It has great vocals, amazing instrumentation, and a few electronic touches. Label: Ninja Tunes Start w/ 1, 4, 5, 6, 8 FCC: Clean RIYL: Nick Hakim, Emily King, Lion Babe, Gabriel Garzon-Montano
A compilation of different artists and bands covering hit songs. Label: ABC Records Start w/ 5, 8, 11, 12, 17 FCC: 14, 21 RIYL: Bon Iver, Flume, Chet Faker, Tame Impala, Chvrches
there is electronica, spoken-word and some long reveries to enjoy with this new release by “Khueex” a group with Tlingit musicians that speak original language in this group of musicians that spark your ears and heart to listen with groove intended results. Enjoy! play all..
Bear Fox is the lead singer with Akwesasne Women Singers who were Native American Music Award winners. She has written these songs in a traditional and life affirming ways that create both an awareness and respect for traditional lifeways, language and living culture of her people of the Mohawk Nation. Her songs on this CD […]
In this CD produced by Bear Fox Music with the women’s singing group, Kontiwennenhawi (Carriers of the Words) and most known as the Akwesasne Women Singers. Each song has voice intro in traditional language and is sung with rattle, drum or call and response and in traditional rounds. Group performs regionally and recently can be […]
From the promoter: Minneapolis band Nooky Jones’ “… debut album relies on each musician’s unique style as a critical part of the overall sound. Atop airtight yet comfortably loose drum and bass grooves often reminiscent of ’90s R&B and hip hop, layers of harmonically complex piano, organ, and Fender Rhodes create a lushness associated with […]
The Blind Boys of Alabama are back with another great album. With their first album released in 1948, the boys are approaching 70 years of stellar music that has seen five Grammy Awards and one Lifetime Achievement award. They have also entered the Gospel Music Hall of Fame and worked with Marvin Stables, Stevie Wonder, […]
From the promoter: “The soaring choruses, rousing anthems, sprawling guitars and chaotic keys that make up Wolf Parade are on proud display over the course of Cry Cry Cry, the band’s thunderous first album in seven years. That unique combination of sounds and influences, spearheaded by electric co-frontmen Spencer Krug and Dan Boeckner-a complex yet relatable, […]
Vocal works with string quintet, more classical than jazz, hence released under Origin’s Classical branch. Nice pieces, especially Jaco Pastorius.
Ethereal choral works by Thomas Traherne composed in the 17th century, here with saxophone quartet.
Baroque pieces performed on a tangent piano, not a harpsichord, and sounds more fluid. Play!
Spanish works from the late 1800’s to mid 1900’s performed by classical guitarist Sharon Isbin and voice by Isabel Leonard. Gracious and elegant.
Beautiful compositions for vibraphone and percussion, abstract, contemporary. Play!
An interesting mix of Danish traditional pieces with originals by the quartet’s members. Nice!
Fairly intense solo violin pieces by Abras, Doderer, Placidi and others. Avant.
Abstract pieces, ranging from intense, some quiet, and still intense. Play!
Bouncy, rhythmic solo piano pieces, influenced by his living abroad in Brazil and the Caribbean, this American composer is considered a multiculturalist in the early and middle 1800’s. Play!
