"A sailing jazz-chill experience. Freedom, sonically-expressed. Fun, light, warm." Words we used in May of last year to describe composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist Pablo Embon's 18th studio album, Reminiscent Moods. Possessing an artistically [Click here to open...]
New Latitude – Wood, Steel, and Grace
Back in the summer of 2017 we described their second studio album, Vantage Point, as, "...wonderfully soothing..." "...bursts and sparkles with EXACTLY what was intended: The masterful acoustic guitar playing and creativity of Dave Erickson and Jim [Click here to open...]
Tyler Suarez X TRAXX – Genesis
Small town Connecticut-native, Tyler Suarez, and New York-native, Brenton Morrison (a.k.a. TRAXX) met their freshman year of college at the University of Bridgeport. A shared sonic muse inspired a quick friendship and an inevitable musical [Click here to open...]
Steve Markoff & Patricia Lazzara – Timeless
The flutist duo of Steve Markoff and Patricia Lazzara met years ago when Steve came to Patricia for lessons. Over the next five years, that teacher-student relationship would slowly morph into one of fellow artists and colleagues, culminating in [Click here to open...]
Pork Pie Hat – Giotto Groove
Downsizing from quartet to trio in 2017, that new minimalist environment seemed to coax-out and foster a sound unique to the three gentlemen which make up the NRW (North Rhine Westfalia), Germany-based Jazz-Funk-Soul-Blues band known as, Pork Pie [Click here to open...]
Jokatech – Native Son
We've previously called him a “…legit and welcome voice in an otherwise culture of poppy hooks and empty verse.” In turn calling his music, "Inherently positive. Creative. Spiritually wholesome and inclusive." So, what it boils down to is that when [Click here to open...]
A Well of Quiet Voices – Something More (single)
Somewhere in the southeast corner of Texas, there's a town called Kirbyville where the ambient acoustic guitar trio known as, A Well Of Quiet Voices, calls home. Almost twenty years ago, founding members Jesse Arsement (vocals, percussion) and James [Click here to open...]
Merrill Collins – Every Man, Woman and Child, Yoga Flow Suite
Born and raised in New Jersey, visionary-composer-musician, Merrill Collins dedicated her life to music at the tender age four. By young adulthood she'd achieved a Master's in music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. “Music is [Click here to open...]