This NYC duo's distinctive sound encompasses folk, Americana, world music, New Orleans jazz, Gullah Geechee rhythms and scat singing, and what I call good old hoedown music.
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Music Review/Video Premiere: Free Radicals ‘No State Solution’ and ‘Dub for Besouro’
'No State Solution' is innovative, brisk, declarative, and supercharged.
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With 'Chapter 1,' Kuwaisiana provides thrilling harmonics, a kind of reckless dynamism, and hormonal exuberance.
Read More »Music Review: Armonite – ‘And the Stars Above’ Delivers Distinctive Prog Rock
Armonite delivers a dazzling fusion of prog rock and classical on 'And the Stars Above.' It's as if Liberace, Mozart, and Canada’s Rush got together for a jam session.
Read More »MUSIC PREVIEW: Manika Kaur Set to Drop ‘Sacred Words’
'Sacred Words' radiates velvety melodies, sinuous washes of sonic pigments, and graceful milieus.
Read More »Music Reviews: Jazz Albums from Takaaki, Jane Ira Bloom, Roy McGrath
New jazz albums with tie-ins to poetry, Puerto Rico, and Gustav Holst's 'The Planets'
Read More »Music Review: Ghostly Beard – ‘Inward’ Dispenses Luxurious Tones
'Inward' is one of those albums best described as luxuriously comfortable, which makes it worth your time and attention.
Read More »Concert Review: Jazz Pianist Eliane Elias at Birdland (NYC, 13 April 2018)
The Brazilian pianist is a master of infusing improvisational virtuosity into the spirit of a song, whether's it's by Jobim or The Doors, an original, or a Broadway classic from 'Man of La Mancha.'
Read More »Music Review: Lyndol Descant – ‘All Love’
The candid lyricism of Carly Simon meets the easy listening vocalese of Fiona Apple on Lyndol Descant's new release.
Read More »Music Review: Eliane Elias – ‘Man of La Mancha’ in Latin Jazz Style
The Brazilian jazz pianist goes full-tilt from the start, with dense and intense rhythms, indeed a florid, Lisztian intricacy, on "To Each His Dulcinea." One listen to Elias's substitutions on the theme and you know she's playing with a full quiver of creativity as well as a twinkle in her eye.
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