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ZARBO, "Get Up and Dance - Electro Remix"
Sometimes after a long, difficult and anxiety ridden year – which seems a lot more like ten to most stressed out people – a visionary...
Jonathan Widran
Apr 17, 2021


KEITH RICHIE, Ambient Highways
A simple cursory glance at the extensive discography of Keith Richie paints the image of an extremely prolific ambient electronic...
Jonathan Widran
Apr 13, 2021


THE DEATHRAY DAVIES, Time Well Wasted
Back in ’04, at the height of their 5-6 year whirlwind of indie success, wildly quirky and deeply beloved Dallas based garage rockers The...
Jonathan Widran
Apr 8, 2021


PETER KATER, Rapture
Having won two Grammy Awards for Best New Age Album two of the past three years (for Wings and Dancing on Water) after countless previous...
Jonathan Widran
Apr 6, 2021


MARE WAKEFIELD & NOMAD, No Remedy
The stories of artists making the most of their pandemic down-time and finding those proverbial silver linings creating special works...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 29, 2021


STEVE GADD BAND At Blue Note Tokyo
December 18, 2019. There’s something surreal about looking at the date of the recording on the back cover of Steve Gadd Band at Blue Note...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 23, 2021


MATT PANAYIDES, Field Theory
The term “player’s album” is often a too easy go-to phrase to describe spirited, freewheeling interactions between musicians, but in the...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 23, 2021


JUAN CARLOS QUINTERO, Caminando
One of the major challenges for veteran artists is adapting to the evolving way that music is consumed. In 2000, ten years into his solo...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 22, 2021


ERIC GOLETZ, Into the Night...
For a guy who admits he dislikes the chaotic connotations of the term “fusion,” veteran East Coast trombonist and keyboardist Eric Goletz...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 22, 2021


ATRIA, Moonbrain
Speaking candidly about the pointed messaging in many of his most enduring, influential songs, Curtis Mayfield once said, “Painless...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 18, 2021


NIKOLAY NEKRASOV & THE POETRY YOU'VE HUMMED WITHOUT KNOWING IT
All music is poetry in one sense or another. Sometimes there’s only a hint of it in the foundation or inspiration for a given song. In...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 15, 2021


DEPARTURE LOUNGE, Transmeridian
Like a warm and comforting, dreamily sensual yet wildly exhilarating visit from some cherished old friends, famed, quirky, trippy and...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 13, 2021
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