Artist: Sterilize Stereo CD: “Bugs and Daymares” Label: Self Released – This slightly enigmatic band (neither the CD nor their myspace actually tell us the names of these five musicians*) transported themselves from Kansas all the way to Portland OR in the last year… which makes sense since this is …
Princeton CD: “Bloomsbury” Label: Self Released – It’s a classic music fable: three unsuspecting young American men (a pair of twins Matthew & Jesse Kivel and their childhood chum Ben Usen) study in London for a year and come out come masters of pop music. “Bloomsbury” is four sweet, heady …
Jo Gabriel CD: “Fools and Orphans” Label: Self Released (future release on Kalinkaland) – “Fools and Orphans” is the third album by this once-of-New-York-now-of-Wisconsin artist that I’ve had the pleasure of hearing. I enjoyed the first two but this is the one you should pick up, and here’s why: This …
Juan Prophet Organization “Cocktails with Carnivores” CD Label: Self Released – This is wonderful curio of an EP. Juan Prophet Organzation take gypsy instrumentation (accordion, violin, banjos etc) and marry it to (often THUNDEROUS) art-damaged (capital R, capital AWK) RAWK then run the whole thing through a pedal-to-the-metal blender of …
Life Toward Twilight Interview Life Toward Twilight is a project by Detroit musician Daniel Tuttle. Recently we were lucky enough to experience the music he’s recorded for Thomas Edison’s film of “Frankenstein”. In our continuing look at contemporary composers who work with silent film we were thrilled to ask Daniel …
Festival “come, arrow, come!” CD Label: Language of Stone – “come, arrow, come!”, the debut album by Brooklyn based Festival, opens with what can only be called an a capella madrigal (“Fair and True”). The instruments fold in during the last third of the song but by then you know …