by Nick DeRiso He’s got a name that sounds like the future. So, naturally, you expect Brian Eno to be ever changing, on the move, eyes continually fixed on the horizon. That’s why I was starting to hate Small Craft on a Milk Sea. Eno’s new album opens with a crystalline piano line, echoing across a frozen ocean of cloud [...]
by Mark Saleski There are so many things we depend upon in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire that it’s sometimes easy to forget that not all of them have been around forever…or will continue to be so. Just as the mountain itself solidly anchors our mental picture of the area, there are so many other landmarks — the covered [...]
By Nick DeRiso At once neo-renaissance, new age and something akin to blissed-out bluegrass, Erwilian’s holiday-themed concert recording Midwinter’s Night neatly sidesteps the pre-conceived notion of sickly sweet Yuletide fare. Midwinter’s Night, instead, is a concert souvenir from warm night of remembrance, affection and camaraderie – sparked by these friendly-as-family band members, who frequently interact. This cozy framework, coupled with [...]
by Mark Saleski Walk down the street and stop twenty random people, asking them their opinion of Esquivel? If you get less than 19 “Huhwuh?”‘s, I’d be impressed. That’s sort of too bad because Juan Garcia Esquivel had far too many musical ideas in his head. Add some pedal steel to the sound of a big band? Why not?! Zingy [...]
by Mark Saleski This is the amazing, hilarious and true story of Sue Carpenter, a woman who gave corporate radio and the FCC the big ‘ef U’ by starting her own pirate radio station — right out of her apartment atop a hill in San Francisco. A career opportunity (writing for a magazine) and first attempt at junkie-boyfriend escape causes [...]
by Pico Since I’m on the topic of singles from 1970, he’s another one that was in the family household record rotation forty years ago, but a much more somber and a lot less obscure. It began as a ditty for a local bank seeking to attract newlywed customers and within a year turned into a big hit for soft [...]
by Pico Paul McCartney declared it is “probably my favorite Beatles’ track” and yet, it’s also one of The Beatles’ silliest, discombobulated and for decades, one of their most obscure. For me, “You Know My Name (Look up The Number)” just brings me back to a long-ago time. My family (I say “family” but it probably belonged to one of [...]
by Nick DeRiso A group of cross-country friends with day jobs got together to produce Rochester Express, this chummy, Woody Herman-style amalgam of galloping jazz joys. By day, the members of Rochester, Minnesota-based TakeTwo work as a cardiovascular surgeon, a respiratory therapist, and an IBM engineer. In this two day recording session, however, they emerged from their shiny office edifices [...]
By Mark Saleski When writing on or near the Thanksgiving Day holiday, it has become the custom to either enumerate the things we’re thankful for or to go the consumerist route and talk about Black Friday. Black Friday? C’mon, when me and TheWife™ got up this morning, the temperatures were in the high 20′s and there was a beautiful freezing [...]
by Pico So a couple of years ago we saluted the national shopping holiday called Black Friday with some musings about a 1975 Steely Dan song of the same name. This time, we’re going to mark the occasion with another ditty by the Boys From Bard (Walter Becker and Donald Fagen), called “Everything Must Go.” This, of course, is the [...]
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