Category: Album

Leafing through old music magazines, I came across a story about Miles Davis. Once he said to a young musician: “Don’t play what is. Play what isn’t.” The musician got confused, fell silent, and then asked: “But how do I play what isn’t?” Miles shrugged: “Exactly.” That answer is a precise definition of creativity: it…

“All time is now, and now is all you have.”It is hard to come up with a better motto for a band that records albums as if they were the last. AKA BELLE from Boise, Idaho, are known and popular in the Pacific Northwest region. The band has 5 members. At the beginning they were…

“The most difficult role is to be oneself.” A quote from the novel The Whole World Is a Theatre by William Somerset Maugham, in my opinion, most precisely describes the album “To Love Is To Perform” by Jada Di’Larosa. In her world, the stage does not end with the last number – it becomes quieter, more intimate.New Orleans –…

On the night of July 24, 2023, at four in the morning, lightning struck the windowsill centimeters from the feet of Anthony Cedric Vuagniaux – at that moment he was working in the studio. He had never seen it so close before. Anyone else would have jumped back, closed the shutters, and gone to sleep.…

The internet has long been doing what literature once did: creating language for things that previously had none. The LGBTQ+ community, in this sense, works with doubled intensity: it invents words for states, experiences, and archetypes that existed for decades without names. Some of these words live in memes and dissolve within a week. Others…

Italian music knows how to surprise and seduce. However, the Italian indie-pop project Corner in Bloom decided to go further. I listen to their new album “Tiny Apartment” and there is a feeling that Italy packed a suitcase, got on a bicycle and went to Amsterdam – and then forgot where it left the keys…

A classic story: true freedom in music begins where looking back at others’ expectations ends. The longer an artist stays in their own orbit, the clearer their own language sounds. It was with these thoughts that I turned on the new album by a musician our readers should get to know. Thomas Young, the one-man…

“Nothing behind, everything ahead, as always happens on the road,” wrote Jack Kerouac. And, it seems, such an impulse of movement through uncertainty becomes the nerve of the new album “The Great Divide” by Matthew Shadley Band. I first became acquainted with the band’s work while working on a review of the album “Shaka” (May…

There are things that many people love secretly. Not because they are ashamed – but because their surroundings are convinced that, for example, loving classical music and being passionate about anime looks ridiculous. Mozart or Pokémon. Chopin or Naruto. The concert hall or the anime screen. But does an unspoken law exist that forbids these…

“Who looks outward dreams; who looks inward awakens.” – Carl Gustav Jung. More often than not, awakening appears awkward-a painful recognition of oneself in what one has long avoided. This is how Martha Elizabeth Miller’s album “What Lies Within” begins-and how it ends. Twelve songs form a spiral of transformation and an intimate conversation with the self.…