Electro-funk pairing not as magical as one expects Vanguard / Craft Recordings When one purchases an ’80s electro-funk album, they’re rolling the dice. Maybe you’re getting a rather excellent single and a handful of forgettable, if decent other songs; maybe you’re getting a rather...
Singer-songwriter’s sophomore effort wears clear influences, settles into darker moods High Moon Records Songs about love and loss seem to come easy for Ryan Martin on his second full length release, Gimme Some Light. From the opening lyric, “I lost my mind, then I felt the plane taking...
Edogawa Rampo — The Human Chair First published in 1925, “The Human Chair” is a short story by Japanese writer Edogawa Ranpo that documents a lonely chair maker’s compulsive need for human companionship. Ranpo’s bizarre and unsettling tale is brought to life by actor Laurence Harvey with music...
Cult NYC free jazz album finally gets a proper reissue Valley of Search Records It’s rare to hear a recording so full of life and movement as Alan Braufman’s 1975 release Valley of Search. Recorded live from the first floor of a loft in downtown NYC (pianist Cooper-Moore rented the whole floor for $140...
Any stack of releases from Tidal Waves Music is bound to result in some amazing musical discoveries. The appeal of the reissue label is that so many of the albums they’re putting back out into the world are usually quite hard to track down. Even in the case of an internationally-renowned performer...
‘Get Out’ a slightly lengthy yet sufficiently creepy score Waxwork Records Jordan Peele wanted a specific sound when he enlisted the help of composer Michael Abels for the score to 2017 breakout film Get Out. Peele found Abels — a composer known for blending genres like bluegrass, jazz,...
