Miles Donahue makes jazz swing, bop, and rock on Just Passing Thru
Boston-based saxophone player Miles Donahue leads his jazz band on a journey on Just Passing Thru, a 9 track odyssey into a myriad of approaches to modern jazz. Donahue constructs his sonic landscapes from the timbres, tempos, and dynamics he’s been listening to these last four decades, and he has a way of making jazz […]
Terry Kitchen offers beautiful document of his life with Lost Songs
Terry Kitchen’s latest album Lost Songs is made up of new recordings of older, unreleased songs, songs that span Kitchen’s career. It’s a fresh, rewarding look back through the career of this Boston folkie. And, this basement tapes style album is simply a very good album. Kitchen can reach any listener with his timely messages […]
Lydia Arachne guides ambitious Semaphora through Connecticut music scene
Sometimes an artist’s project lands on the music scene with a loud thud, engaging all to look up and see what it’s all about. Semaphora, the brainchild of New Haven’s Lydia Arachne, a band concept similar to Alan Parsons Project, hit the Connecticut music scene about three years ago. Multi-instrumentalist Arachne had a plan and […]
Kristian Montgomery & The Winterkill Band give a brilliant, rocking beat down to social injustice on Prince Of Poverty
Kristian Montgomery & The Winterkill Band are up to their old tricks again. Montgomery and his band of merry men just dropped another hard charging, rockin’ roots album. More aggressive, edgier, flintier than even their previous disc The Gravel Church, Prince Of Poverty pounds its way through each track with either a driving drum beat […]
Retro CD Review: Boston’s 80s band Forever 19 stand the test of time with Come As You Were Born
Some times an album from the past has such striking qualities that make it cry out for a retro CD Review in this blog. The most striking thing about Forever 19’s Come As You Were Born album, recorded in 1987, is how fresh it still sounds nearly 35 years after it was recorded. This quintet […]
