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WAXFLIGHT, Flowers
From song inspiration to digital, distant recording processes, one of the stranger phenomena when it comes to the promotion of indie...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 30, 2021


OBERON ROSE, Holographic Blues
With its Peter Green-esque, early Fleetwood Mac flavored guitar vibes, cool languid melody, tippy mellotron and the gorgeous lead and...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 30, 2021


MIKE SCOTT, Collecting Things
Collecting Things, the title of Mike Scott’s engaging, multi-faceted third album, taps into the heart of the compositional process where...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 19, 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
Jan 9, 2021


GITIT SHOVAL, Connected
Released late in a year in which our individual and collective feeling of connection to other people and especially loved ones has been...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 30, 2020


CATHY SEGAL-GARCIA, "Get Together/Can't Find My Way Home"
Continuing on her artful, imaginative and uber-adventurous roll of capturing the tightrope of intense anxiety and cautious hope that...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 30, 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 27, 2020


LARRY NEWCOMB QUARTET, Love, Dad
There are two key takeaways from the empowering, hard swinging and deeply bluesy experience of listening to Love, Dad, the third album by...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 19, 2020


THE JUSTIN ROTHBERG GROUP, Hurricane Mouse
Not sure exactly what a Hurricane Mouse is – except for the kick-ass funk/rock/jazz slam jam opening The Justin Rothberg Group’s third...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 19, 2020


THE GRASSO-RAVITA JAZZ ENSEMBLE, Jagged Spaces
Who says all the best, boldest and most badass new jazz groups come from NYC? Just when our tired spirits and hopeful ears are in...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 19, 2020


DEVON, Sitting Up Straight
Though her sound and songwriting acumen has evolved since ultra-indie, super hipster singer/songwriter Devon dropped her critically...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 16, 2020


DAVE KOZ & FRIENDS, The Greatest Hits of Christmas 2020
Not that our sense of what qualifies as “normal” will ever quite be the same after this, but in a normal year, a review of the annual...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 14, 2020
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