SHERRY FINZER, Connections
If you ask recording artists of any genre what their primary goal is with any specific project, they will no doubt tell you it’s not only...
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Jonathan Widran
- Oct 24, 2021
DANAE XANTHE VLASSE, A Concert & Celebration of Mythologies at Skirball Cultural Center
As part of her artistic mission statement that must be cited in any insightful profile or review of a recording or live performance,...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 18, 2021
FRONT AND CENTER PRESENTS SANGEETA KAUR & FRIENDS
Shortly after hearing the transcendent operatic voice and the gentle yet soaring and soul-transformative music of new age crossover star...
Jonathan Widran
- Aug 30, 2021
JUAN SANCHEZ, Now the Silence
With composers and artists being particularly sensitive and empathetic to the goings on in the world around them in normal times, it’s...
Jonathan Widran
- Jul 1, 2021
Matias Bacoñsky, Epochal
In decades of reviewing instrumental music, no album until Matias Bacoñsky’s sweeping, literally breathtaking (and perfectly titled)...
Jonathan Widran
- Dec 13, 2020
ROBERT PRESTER & ADRIANA SAMARGIA, First Snow
Like the fresh, glistening grace of the long awaited initial flurries of the year, renowned classical and jazz pianist Robert Prester and...
Jonathan Widran
- Nov 18, 2020
DAMIA TIMONER, Jerry's Smilin: A Guitar Tribute to the Grateful Dead
Besides the exquisite and intricate, richly melodic playing, one of the things that may strike the informed listener as they weave...
Jonathan Widran
- Apr 13, 2020
2002, Celtic Fairy Dream
In a brief but insightful documentary about the creation of their gently transcendent, traditional new album Celtic Fairy Dream, 2002’s...
Jonathan Widran
- Feb 17, 2020
SHOSHANA MICHEL, Impressions
Starting with the moment she fell in love with new age piano music circa 1990 via influences and heroes like David Lanz, Suzanne Ciani...
Jonathan Widran
- Jan 15, 2020
KIRSTEN AGRESTA COPELY, Around the Sun
Rising to prominence with a Bronze Medal in the 1st USA International Harp Competition in her teens and debuting as concerto soloist at...
Jonathan Widran
- Dec 13, 2019
MICHAEL KOLLWITZ & WALTON MENDELSON, The Stick EWI Project: In the Moonlight
In my enthusiastic write-up review of Michael Kollwitz’s Billboard charting early 2019 release Serenity III: More Peaceful Music on the...
Jonathan Widran
- Nov 10, 2019
RACHEL LAFOND, The 52
While some old school artists find reasons to lament the shift from the tactile joys of CD sales and ownership to the digital, streaming...
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