Dan Markell, “Carried Away” (2021): One Track Mind
For the past year or so, Dan Markell has been banging out one great single after another. “Carried Away” is his latest.
For the past year or so, Dan Markell has been banging out one great single after another. “Carried Away” is his latest.
Clearly the guys of The Kevin Brady Electric Quartet are very comfortable playing together, and the immediacy and unity heard on “Airbourne” proves it.
ElectroBluesSociety and Boo Boo Davis make the perfect combination: the former supplies the groove and the latter brings the grit.
“Rotations” is the trance-like advance single from Gerycz / Powers / Rolin’s strangely alluring pysch-folk LP, ‘Lamplighter.’
Lyle Mays’ “Eberhard” serves as a bittersweet coda from a largely unsung brilliant musician who left us – as we learn here – still at the height of his powers.
Released at just the right time, Dan Markell’s “Carnival Game” is the perfect addition to your summer soundtrack.
Here is the advance track “I.G.Y.” from the upcoming Steely Dan/Donald Fagen release ‘Donald Fagen’s The Nightfly Live,’ set to drop on September 24, 2021.
“Drain the Sea” whets the appetite as the Dark Monarchy prepares to release ‘All Roads Lead to Rome,’ the latest project from Mark Anthony K and Joe Bailey.
Matt Mitchell and Kate Gentile’s “for teens,” “spinal thought” and “peripheral drome” are spare conceptions with rich detail filled in on the fly from the assembled collection of improvisation masters.
“What’s Going On” by bluesman Boo Boo Davis and the ElectroBluesSociety isn’t the Marvin Gaye classic, but it’s liable to move your soul, too.