“Ghost Giant” comes alive through character driven songwriting
Written, recorded, and mixed by Gothenburg, Sweden based composer, Joel Bille, Ghost Giant OGS excels both in the role of standalone listening experience and its primary…
Polaris Rose lets inner thoughts out with a splash on “Waves Within”
Peter Anthony and Maddie Elyse of Los Angeles alternative rock duo, Polaris Rose, have been exploring the dynamics of human relationships and messy emotions over…
The multi-faceted messages of Gene Wildest bloom on “Future Flowers”
Is the glass half empty? Is it half full? Is the face in the picture looking upward or downward? Are you halfway to your destination or…
Prepare for smooth and serene takeoff with the music of “Jetstream”
It’s likely a unanimous opinion that those traveling from one place to another via airplane want their journeys to go over as seamlessly as possible…
A “Downpour” of bold brass is unleashed on Aberdeen’s debut album
Big band music and big band brass music: if one were to take either of those arrangement styles and then ask someone to name a…
Origami Button fold new factors into math rock’s equation on debut EP
Math rock, somewhat like free jazz, and neo-classical atonal compositions, is one of those genres that has the potential to scare people away if they…
Fort Gorgeous takes an emotion-laden journey to the “Bottom of the Sea”
January means we’re back at the top of a year but The Bottom of the Sea (independent, 2018), the debut record from Fort Gorgeous, is actually a…
Ishi No Hoden instills intrigue around jazz and Japan
Decide to go looking for some new jazz to listen to and what one might end up finding can translate to a cornucopia of polyrhythms,…
Enjoy the journey over the destination with Connie Han’s “Crime Zone”
When a new musician chooses to develop in a legacy-dense historical canon that like of jazz, is it a crime to decide that they will…
TTNG revives its carnival of “Animals” with “Acoustic” artistry
Where does an album that’s simultaneously old, new, the same, and decidedly different, fall in the spectrum of creative musical invention? Math rockers, TTNG (formerly…