PAUL JACKS, In Other Words
In my November 2018 review of Defractor, the official solo debut of offbeat, iconoclastic indie-pop singer/songwriter Paul Jacks - after...
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Jonathan Widran
- Jul 23, 2019
JULIET LYONS, The Light Within: Songs for Yoga, Healing & Inner Peace
To truly appreciate an artist’s latest work and immerse enough to write intelligently about it, I always feel compelled to learn about...
Jonathan Widran
- Jul 21, 2019
STAN DART, Murinsel, Vol. 2
With relaxing, easy grooving, lightly jazzy melodies and dreamy floating soundscapes that may remind listeners of the best of Paul...
Jonathan Widran
- Jul 21, 2019
MARK DORRICOTT/STAN DART, Seaside
Seaside, an epic 16-track, double CD intricately conceived and executed concept album by composer/musicians Stan Dart (from Austria) and...
Jonathan Widran
- Jul 16, 2019
GOOD SERVICE, Please
On the Bandcamp pages for “Summer Muses” and “MaPaw,” the delightfully trippy, loudly distorted and atmospherically expansive lead...
Jonathan Widran
- Jun 21, 2019
SVERRE KNUT JOHANSEN, Precambrian
In this age of music streaming where cover art and packaging are often just afterthoughts or a slapdash affair, veteran Norwegian...
Jonathan Widran
- Jun 20, 2019
TOM EATON, How It Happened
Kind of like opening up and embracing a truly infinite universe after limiting one’s beliefs to hard and immutable religious doctrine,...
Jonathan Widran
- Jun 1, 2019
BIGLEMOI, Permanent Vacation
Influenced by a wild expanse of influences from Radiohead and Argentina’s Soda Stereo to Canadian indie rockers Broken Social Scene and...
Jonathan Widran
- May 27, 2019
OLIVER RAY, Out Passed Nowhere
Best known as legendary punk/art rocker Patti Smith’s longtime guitarist, Oliver Ray has been, according to his bio, “writing songs for...
Jonathan Widran
- Apr 29, 2019
PRIYA DEEPIKA, Hear in My Heart
The subtitle of sound healer, songwriter and vocalist Priya Deepika’s richly soulful and spiritually transcendent debut album Hear in My...
Jonathan Widran
- Mar 23, 2019
CRAIG PADILLA & MARVIN ALLEN, Toward the Horizon
As I’ve been immersing in the seemingly endless riches of the three decade-plus Spotted Peccary catalog, I’m enjoying a wild fusion of...
Jonathan Widran
- Mar 20, 2019
MASSERGY, Fire Opal
Hearing some of the new mystically transcendent dreamscapes coming from artists on the Spotted Peccary Music label, I feel as though I...
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