The first notes of Rainbow Baby instantly let us believe that keeping quiet about this album for long was an impossible mission. To be honest, at that time we didn’t know much about Cathlene Pineda despite her indisputable talent and extensive curriculum. We first heard Cathlene’s music the exact same way...
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Tom Ranier, This Way
Recently labeled as ‘Everyone’s Favorite Musician‘, multi-instrumentalist Tom Ranier is an unmissable character of the Los Angeles creative scene, and his latest album strengthens his reputation.
This Way is an album of true generosity, situated where the nostalgic jazz connoisseur meets the laidback individual looking for accessible music to embellish a certain minute, a morning, a day, a decade. His interpretation of Antonio Carlos Jobim’s Desafinado is a jewel.
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Leni Stern (‘4’ album, out June 19th) – ITW #25
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Sam Reese (author of Come The Tide) – ITW #24
Sam Reese and his book Come The Tide (Platypus Press) made an excellent impression on our sensibility a few weeks ago, and we couldn’t leave things at a stalemate. In this interview, guests Ornette Coleman and Silvia Plath enrich Sam’s thoughtful reflections and unusual takes on the pleasure of writing...
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When we first heard about Horse Lords and their forthcoming album The Common Task, we read the following lines : Horse Lords make music for the liberation of mind and body. Five listenings later (and counting), we are really happy to confirm that these words weren’t a form of overstatement. Let us...
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Gareth E. Rees’ Car Park Life (Influx press) joins Juliet Escoria’s Juliet The Maniac on the list of our 2019 favorite pieces of non-fiction. Expecting at first a light read full of entertaining and easy anecdotes, we understood in the first ten pages how rich and enlightening our reading would...
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