Arnab Sengupta was well into his early 30s when he seemingly abruptly, although it was all part of an established pattern dating back to some of his most memorable experiences, quit his job as a software engineer and heeded the calling within him to become a vocalist and, by extension, a musician.
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There are few recording artists, likely in the entire history of the annals of music itself, brazen enough to not just hold up a mirror to society and depict what they find thither, but to point a finger at it, wag it in its face, and issue condemnation, blame, and unabashed judgments.
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The unfurling—of the career, the terrains covered, and the metaphysical planes—of the artistry of Swansgate is a wonder.
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By Deuce The true artist, so they say, knows no bounds. All things are possible, nothing isn’t, the muses are many, the talents aplenty. Life itself? A purpled tapestry with which, as the inimitable Gil Scott Heron observed of John Coltrane, is there “to conjure and entice”, to reproduce either the ideal or decimated state of existence, as he or
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By Deuce The essence of music, particularly that which is recorded, revisited, and recapitulated every time it’s played in the form of a recording, was and always will be sound itself. The vast pastiche of sonic endowments to support the artistic endeavors of a particular tune, commercial, film score, etc., includes a range of qualities from ultra clean to grungy,
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By Deuce You would never know it from looking at him now. No one would believe it if they listened to just about any of his singles, albums, or EPs. Ditto for the live performance thing. Actually, especially for the live performance thing. But, quiet is kept, there actually was a point in time in which Ajay Mathur couldn’t play
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By Deuce The story that’s most revealing about J’Moris—as an artist, a man, and a grifter—took place well before he ever shot a single music video, dropped any of his assortment of singles, published even one of a handful of EPs (of which there’s at least 5), and released two albums (including February’s Moris Better: Loveless Confessions). Revelatory, perhaps, it
Read moreBy Deuce Part I: The Voice Truly, the tale begins in Finland, with the breaking of a woman’s heart—if not something more. GEA—singer, songwriter, musician, producer, and keyboardist—had just treated her then-husband, himself a music producer, to something designed to impress, to win favor, to ingratiate. It was a song, one of the first the artist had devised in a
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It might be a bit of a stretch to describe DG Adams’ new release, Searching For Flowers, which just hit the streets on April 30, as melancholy.
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It’s not hard to determine the inspiration for Dylan Tauber’s newest album that dropped just last month
Read moreIt’s not easy to get a grasp on what exactly Restless Mosaic is doing on his forthcoming album, Made By Thawing Ice, which will be available to the masses on May 13th.
Read moreIt’s a trip–quite literally, in fact–how much one can simply zone out to the aural offerings put together by Fabels on its highly inspirational Long Player entitled, quite appropriately enough, Minds.
Read moreMr. Grossman, who features Patrick Ames on the former’s single, “F.W.I.W.”, which hit the airwaves early last month, gets just about everything right on this one.
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Unless you happen to speak Finnish, you probably won’t understand a word of Gea’s “Uusikuu”, which flooded the market a couple days ago on April 29th.
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The Skye Bleu Crew has a number of things going swell for it on its latest release, “Doll House”, which dropped on March 11th.
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“Tricks of Life Medley”, the most recently released single from Dave Vamfer, is all about moving.
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There’s some fine instrumentation on display on “Emotions”, a recently released single from Amo Jr.
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Now, the first thing anyone would say after taking in Westrock’s latest album cover and weighing it, perhaps, against the title—Welcome to the River—is: “if the recordings are even half as good as the artwork, these fellows really have something on their hands”.
Read moreThere’s one thing that no one who listens to Three, the forthcoming release from singer songwriter and instrumentalist Doug Henthorn dropping May 6, will ever question: the man’s conviction in the vocal booth.
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The musicianship on Ajay Mathur’s Talking Loud Long Player, which just dropped last month, is simply without peer.
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So, Killed by The Architects is a solo project by Jamie Berkes. He just dropped his most recent LP, Tabula Rosa, at the tail end of last month.
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What an album Stevie Cornell’s come with, on his eponymously released project that graced the world at the end of last month.
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When Chris Ianuzzi, former keyboardist for Sluka, decides to focus his expansive, sprawling mind and give you 11 cuts’ worth of music, as he just did on the recent release of his new album Maze, it’s best to sit back, keep quiet, and listen very intently.
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Sometimes, there’s a message in the music. Sometimes, the music becomes the message. And sometimes, the message is becoming to the music.
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Never let it be said, that keyboards—less pianos, although the right type of pianos certainly get the point across—have no place in rock, or in full-fledged bands.
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