GARDEN IN MY MIND (Sunnyside) 8/10 Some flowers are at their most beautiful just before they fully bloom. Joanna Wallfisch’s singing is like that, suggesting restraint, as if her throat and heart are not fully opened. Yet implicit in this restraint is a delicacy, a purity and even a fragile…
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20 STRINGS AND THE TRUTH (Dog My Cat) 7/10 Harry Manx works within such slender musical confines that for him to discard one of the few elements he had in play was a high-risk strategy. The Canadian folk-blues singer/guitarist mostly pens material of similar rhythm, tempo, mood (mellow) and texture…
BURNING GHOSTS (Orenda) 9/10 Daniel Rosenboom has the sort of explosive imagination that triggers creative breakthroughs. Nothing is off limits, and he delights in making high art and anarchy kiss and tumble into bed together. The LA trumpeter has released two new albums simultaneously. The first, Book of Storms, the…