MATTHEW SHELL, Towards New Beginnings II - Songs of Healing
Perfectly meeting our anxious collective moment and desire to move past the struggles and sorrows of a year like no other, visionary...
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Jonathan Widran
Feb 23, 2021
GREGG KARUKAS, Serenata
Gregg Karukas’ extraordinary success over the past 30-plus years as a #1 charting smooth jazz artist and one of the genre’s busiest...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 16, 2021
CONSTANCE HAUMAN, "Taking Some Steps Ahead"
Last year in my (what else?) glowing/enthusiastic write up of Constance Hauman’s epic five track “2nd Wave” bonus edition of her...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 9, 2021
NICHOLAS GUNN, Sound Condition
Closing in on three decades as one of contemporary instrumental and world music’s most prolific and stylistically expansive composers and...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 28, 2020
SHUNIA, Shunia
In June 2020, the calming and soul-stirring music of the sonically fascinating vocal duo Shunia entered my consciousness by way of the...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 6, 2020
DANA CUNNINGHAM, What I Hear: A Collection of Carols
It happens every year when Christmas rolls around. As exquisite as so much holiday music is – especially in the new age solo piano realm...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 18, 2020
TODD MOSBY, Aerial Views
Considering that legendary new age guitarist and Windham Hill Records founder Will Ackerman and his production partner, keyboardist Tom...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 15, 2020
CAMILLE NELSON, Acoustic Christmas
With apologies to George Lucas, a long musical time ago in a galaxy seemingly far, far away from the present one we’re living in – August...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 2, 2020
MILANA ZILNIK, Abracadabra
It’s always inspiring when a beloved artist develops an intense interest in an exotic new instrument and shares the wealth of that...
Jonathan Widran
Apr 17, 2020
ARMIK, "Tango Flamenco (25th Anniversary Version)"
In the 90s when composer/guitarists like Ottmar Liebert and Armik were blazing their lilting yet fiery trails in Nouveau Flamenco music,...
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
Mar 26, 2020
NICHOLAS GUNN, Pacific Blue
A sonically expansive, ever evolving 27 years since making his debut back in his lead flute playing days with Afternoon in Sedona,...
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