Roots Of Creation offer much melodic joy and positive uplift with Livin Free
Roots Of Creation’s latest CD Livin Free is another offering of their grand, glorious sound. Horns, guitars, keyboards and a whole lot of other instrumentation create fun, upbeat waves of melodic joy while wrapping themselves around amicable reggae and ska grooves.
Samantha Farrell creates beautiful music in her September Sun album
Boston’s Samantha Farrell certainly knows the sound she’s looking for in each song she composes and records. On some, she sounds like a traditional folk artist with just an acoustic guitar and vocals. On others, Farrell reminds of early 20th century jazz chanteuses. Yet, her earthy vocal, advanced techniques, personality, and songwriter prowess hold her entire September Sun album together, despite the various genres and musical elements she borrows from
Jamie Lynn Hart soars on the strength of amazing voice with The Let Go album
Jamie Lynn Hart’s latest CD The Let Go builds upon the success she has had with her previous vocal driven pop-rock CD. Hart’s powerful but smooth voice allows her to cruise through or belt through each of these 11 songs with equal aplomb. Driving rock, lovely ballads, mid tempo sultry blues, Hart makes these elements all hers with a voice that never lets go of the ear.
Daemon Chili conjure fine sophomore CD with Mercy Of The Sea
Daemon Chili’s sophomore CD Mercy Of The Sea features more of the glorious roots rock celebratory feeling of their debut album from last year. Daemon Chili have a huge sound, a tapestry of acoustic folksy instrumentation and electric guitars, organs, and drums woven into something that unfurls like a shiny, summertime banner. Or, sometimes a dark banner.
Ease Into The Noise are onto something beautiful, edgy, and strange
Ease Into The Noise offers some eerie soundscapes, enticing melodies, and otherworldly vocals on their self-titled debut CD. The CD cover artwork only hints at the unusual artfulness of what this band has to offer. A drawing of a bejeweled, aristocratic lady observing the sky in a grassy filed is noted for all it does with a few basic colors. Likewise, Ease Into The Noise can do a lot with a little in this first outing that makes one wish this disc could be twice as long.
Erinn Brown Band explore fantastic possibilities with Ruled My Life album
This is a gem of a CD from a North Shore artist that BillCopelandMusicNews.com missed when it was released several months ago. Erinn Brown’s Rule My Life features the title track and 11 new arrangements of her own original songs she previous recorded on her earlier CDS. This collection of rearrangements is only fitting, as Brown, a musical genius in the tradition of Ray Charles, Glen Miller, and Count Basie, constantly tweaks her songs and her covers into something new and different every few months.
Stefilia’s Little Stones sure to entertain, educate youngsters with Let It Shine CD
Stefilia’s Little Stones, a children’s music version of the duo known as Stefilia’s Stone, have released this bright, cheery disc for very young listeners. Let It Shine takes the best qualities from singer-songwriters Carrie Rowan and Adrienne Ghilani and filters them into something special and palatable for kids. Both women are moms and they tend to bring that parental warmth and understanding to their lyrics and vocal delivery.
Goli carries original sound far on This Is Not A Love Song CD
After years of hard work and playing out, Goli has now released their first full length debut CD. This Is Not A Love Song is an excellent document of what midi marimba player Vessela Stoyanova and cellist Valerie Thompson can achieve with their imaginative uses of their instruments, instruments one does not too often find in rock and pop combos. Ten years is a lot of time for a combo to find their sound and perfect it. The two women started out as part of Boston’s progressive rock band Fluttr Effect before finding themselves playing and singing together within this tighter two woman combo. Stoyanova can dial in a lot of different keyboard sounds from her midi marimba and Thompson can play anything from traditional cello to rock and roll low end lines on her own instruments.
Crooked Coast are sure to do well with Wildlife CD
Crooked Coast’s new sophomore CD Wildlife is an infectious, hard-pop treat for the ears. Everything on this CD seems ready for radio play. The melodies soothe. The vocals tug at the ear. The choruses are as catchy as can be. Backing and harmony vocals are like a second coat of icing on the cake, flavoring everything up with brightness, charm, and another reason to like this disc.
Micah Sheveloff delivers fine piano ballads on Live And On Fire From Firehouse 12
Micah Sheveloff latest offering Live And On Fire From Firehouse 12 features nine of his most tender, sensitive singer-songwriter pieces. Aside from his handsome vocal and emotive piano playing, Sheveloff is brilliant at setting moods and conjuring emotions. He goes over well with his audience at Firehouse 12 in New Haven, Connecticut and audience attentiveness lets Sheveloff and his backing band of two set a perfect mood for each of these original tunes.
