George Gritzbach:Â Full Circle
George Gritzbach Full Circle (George Gritzbach Music) Blues-based songwriter/singer/guitarist George Gritzbach gives us his 6th studio album, Full Circle, with a full complement of sublime players lending their talents. Opening with the poppy âAll About Now,â Gritzbach lays us out with well-timed pull-offs and quick riffing slipping and sliding More...
Immortal Machinery: Bartok-ReOrganised
Immortal Machinery Bartok-ReOrganised (Immortal Machinery) A spikey, even slightly scary âAllegro Molto,â with slicing violin and super-tight snare sound, begins Immortal Machineryâs new album Bartok-ReOrganised. Steph More...
Gary Craig:Â Yesterday Into Day
Gary Craig Yesterday Into Day (Gary Craig) Gary Craig claims that most of the songs on his new Yesterday Into Day album were written by a âyounger me,â although most of the lyrics reveal deep insight into More...
Barista: Open Sesame Vol 2: Press Rewind
Barista Open Sesame Vol 2: Press Rewind (Monoplay) The sprawling Istanbul-based rock project Barista, comes from Bahadır Han Eryılmaz. His sprawling Open Sesame, presented in five volumes (yes, 5!), embraces More...
Wise John: A Wonderful World
Wise John A Wonderful World (Wise John) A tentative jazzy piano floats behind the delicate voice of Wise John as he opens his album, A Wonderful World with âWonât Somebody Let This Caged Bird Fly?â Although More...
Echo Us: The Windsong Spires
Echo Us The Windsong Spires (Echo Us) With sweeping keys, high fluty-sounds, and echo-y vocals, Echo Us presents âWe Seek the Descending Levers,â the opener of The Windsong Spires. This one gets a good head More...
Patrick Ames: The Virtualistics
Patrick Ames The Virtualistics (Patrick Ames) Patrick Ames set himself up with an interesting challenge, certainly informed by our times, for The Virtualistics. Ames writing the eight songs here, saw a good More...
Mike Gale:Â Twin Spirit
Mike Gale Twin Spirit (Baboo Records) A plucky, circa-1920âs piano and effected restricted-speaker vocal inform âDonât Mind The Weather,â the opener of Mike Galeâs new Twin Spirit. It follows with More...
Dennis DeYoung: 26 East, Vol.2. Â
Dennis DeYoung 26 East, Vol.2. (FRONTIERS MUSIC SRL) 26 East, Vol.2. marks former Styx frontman/vocalist/keyboardist/songwriter Dennis DeYoungâs retirement. Thinking he was done with his âVol.1â released More...
Ad Vanderveen: Release
Ad Vanderveen Release (Songsense) We are in the hands of a well-reasoned production from the get-go on Amsterdam-based folk artist Ad Vanderveenâs new ten song, Release. Vanderveen produces here with Pete Fisher, More...
