Retro CD Review: singer-songwriter Katrin rocked her 2004 album Nature Spirit
Some of greater-Boston/New England’s best artist needs to be examined in retrospect. This retro review of Katrin’s 2004 release Nature Spirit came about simply because Nature Spirit happened to be sitting on the shelf at a local Bull Moose music store in Salem, New Hampshire when a music journalist just happened to be looking through […]
HannaH’s Field expand their sound with Crystal Vision
HannaH’s Field latest album Crystal Vision evokes a crystal clear vision of where this Connecticut reggae band is today. Combining their interest in reggae grooves and groovy lyrics with edgier lead guitar and making a few forays into Americana roots, this band has come with a party album for the mind and soul Opening track […]
Liz Simmons tells her tales with inventive acoustic beauty on Poets
Liz Simmons’ latest album “Poets” reflects a lot of thought and feeling from this Vermont folk artist. Moreover, Simmons has a special, unique way of keeping her music low key and stirring at once. After she lulls you into her world of gentle music, you can feel yourself moving with her keen sense of direction. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jenee Halstead indescribably, remarkably good on Disposable Love
Jenee Halstead’s latest CD release Disposable Love cannot be easily pigeonholed into any one musical category. Halstead’s lyrical vision might put her in the same class as the better singer-songwriters. Halstead, a longtime presence in the greater-Boston scene, knows how to layer instruments together to arrive at her preferred mode of expression. Thick bass and […]
Yoko Miwa Trio give new meaning to Songs Of Joy
Yoko Miwa Trio just released their ninth CD, Songs Of Joy. Boston by way of Tokyo jazz pianist Yoko Miwa, again, offers her own original compositions while making her own with special arrangements songs written by the geniuses of modern music. Miwa, still possessing a flair for arranging popular music, opens her jazz heavy album […]
Semaphora offers something new and brilliant with Sister Administrator
Sometimes musical genius just rears its amazing head, and it cannot be ignored. Connecticut based Semaphora recently dropped their exciting disc Sister Administrator into an unsuspecting music scene. It will go over big, especially when local music fans realize that the multi layered album is the product of one mind. Semaphora, actually the name for […]
