Shifting Borders is a cocktail that embraces the music of multiple cultures and merges them together into a melodic brew.
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Music Review: The Cheap Ensemble – ‘The Cheap Ensemble’
The Cheap Ensemble's self-titled release is fraught with ambient soundscapes that lure listeners along a path of blissful swells.
Read More »Music Review: Kenji Bunch – ‘The Snow Queen’ Ballet Score from Orchestra Next
This suite is full of heart and likely to move yours, and while it might make you wish you could see the ballet, it won't leave you frozen.
Read More »Music Review: Gabe Evens – ‘The Wrong Waltz’
Evens' work combines structured patterns with his skill to invent notations, making his talent most appreciated in scholarly circles.
Read More »Music Review: Simon Sammut – ‘Crossing’
These are instrumentals, ambient and ethereal, designed for the individual to savor and assess their meaning.
Read More »Music Review: Jason Ricci and The Bad Kind – ‘Approved by Snakes’
Whether you like it or whether you don't, this album will move you. Like the label says, it is "Explicit" in every sense of the word.
Read More »Music Review: RAC – ‘EGO’
Front to back, 'EGO' by RAC destroys the sophomore slump curse and proves to anyone listening (and you should be listening), he is only getting started. Buy a ticket to this ride soon before there's no more room on the train.
Read More »Music Review: Daniel Dickinson – ‘A Gathering Foretold’
Daniel Dickinson is a newcomer to the music scene, though he plays with the instincts of a seasoned performer and the nimbleness of an astute artist who knows his craft inside and out.
Read More »Music Review: Barry Guy, Maya Homburger, and Zlatko Kaučič – ‘Without Borders’
This is collective improvisation at its finest, where each musician is free to express thoughts without encumbrance or restriction.
Read More »Music Review: Pharrell Williams and Various Artists – ‘Despicable Me 3: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack’
Pharrell Williams delivers again with several catchy tunes on the third soundtrack for the 'Despicable Me' animated comedy/adventure film series, while Heitor Pereira contributes again to the score.
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