Loren Evarts – Home Again

May 8, 2018 Leave a comment

Loren Evarts newest album Home Again is the 6th original album, of this amazing contemporary pianist. It revisits several pieces previously recorded by Loren in the 1980’s, and eight new ones. It was produced by Grammy award winner Will Ackerman (Windham Hill Records) at his Imaginary Road studio in West River valley, Windham County, Vermont and was engineered by Tom Eaton.

Featuring Grammy-winning artists and Grammy-nominated Artists Eugene Friesen on cello (Paul Winter, Trio Globo), Rhonda Larson on many types of flutes (Paul Winter, Ventus) and Jeff Haynes on percussion (Pat Metheny, Pete Seeger), bassist Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel and King Crimson).

Besides keyboards, Loren Evarts has been known to perform by singing, trombone, hammered dulcimer and organ.

Loren has performed professionally in the Connecticut area of USA in a variety of musical situations for over 40 years. He has been grateful to have been involved in performances with artists such as Dave Weckl (Chick Corea), Gerry Neiwood (Chuck Mangione), Everett Silver (Chuck Mangione), Mike Davis (Rolling Stones), Danny Stiles (Bill Watrous), Fred Vigdor (Average White Band), Rhonda Larson (Paul Winter Consort).

Tracklisting:

1. A Day on the Concord River

2. Dugong Dance

3. Far and Away

4. Ktaadn

5. Sunset Island

6. Evensong

7. Home Again

8. Outermost House

9. Wedding at Sunrise

10. Baker Lake

11. Nine Mile bridge

12. The Good Life

Links to music:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Loren-Evarts-381341318731960/

Offical: http://www.lorenevarts.com/

Big Merino – Suburban Wildlife

May 8, 2018 Leave a comment

The Sydney-based band Big Merino their debut album “Suburban Wildlife” is a smashing it, getting rave reviews overseas and their our featured album.

Beach sloth – “Big Merino goes for a powerful, heartfelt sound on the symphonic folk musings of Suburban Wildlife.”

http://www.beachsloth.com/big-merino-suburban-wildlife.html

Dancing About Architecture (by Dave Franklin) – “The art of pinning down a band in just a few generic descriptions or a handy soundbite is the stock-in-trade of the music reviewer but I have to admit that it will take a better man than me to concisely pin down Big Merino.”

https://dancingaboutarchitecture.info/2018/05/19/suburban-wildlife-big-merino-reviewed-by-dave-franklin/

Middle Tennessee Music.com (by Joshua (J.Smo) Smotherman) – “Comprising of a team of seasoned music makers, Big Merino is the culmination of various musical styles, years of various experiences and the talented personalities which have come together like Voltron to form an appealing, soul-infused rock record that can be listened to from beginning to end…multiple times…without getting old.”

https://www.midtnmusic.com/big-merino-suburban-wildlife/

Formed a little over two years ago, Big Merino play original songs that blur the lines between rock, country, blues, roots, soul, funk and grunge – occasionally making forays into lesser-known genres such as New Orleans 2nd Line.

Their major influences Glen Hansard, The Frames, Jackson Browne and The Rolling Stones, co-songwriters Alex Craig and Stuart Davis write socially and politically-charged songs that are sometimes gentle and nostalgic and at other times nothing less than a fierce cry for revolution.

TrackList:

1. Black Cockatoos

2. How Can You Be Sure

3. Turn This Boat Around

4. Hand Grenades

5. Blackwater

6. Love Letter From A Fool

7. Sometimes

8. Hands In The Fire

9. Dramamine

10. Maybe I Was Sleeping

Links to music:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bigmerino/

Offical: https://bigmerinoband.com.au/INFO.html

Joel Leffler – Strip Me Bare

May 8, 2018 Leave a comment

Joel Leffler’s New EP Strip Me Bare follows on from his Run With The Wolves EP and tour.

Produced by long-time collaborator and ARIA-winning Producer Peter Holz (Peking Duk, Gang of Youths).

The first single is In My Sights(Feat Melissa Jane) . This poppy anthem tune hits home and you can’t help but sing and dance along. This song features a guest vocal from Melissa Jane which is the culmination of her and Joel Leffler working together on numerous recordings.

Track List:

1. Speed of Light

2. Strip Me Bare

3. In My Sights

4. Fuse

5. Aprils Fool

6. Auburn Hair

Links;

Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/thejoelleffler/

Offical; https://www.joelleffler.com/home

Sherry Finzer & Tom Moore – Let There Be Light

May 8, 2018 Leave a comment

Heart Dance Recordings is proud to announce the new release of Let There Be Light its New age, ambient, meditational music was created as the follow-up album of multi-instrumentalist Tom Moore and award-winning New Age flutist Sherry Finzer – after their highly successful release of Whispers from Silence their debut album, which received worldwide airplay on FM, Internet Radio, SXM Spa Channel, and numerous airline placements.

This album’s music is an expression of a journey. It is about movement not only in our outer life, but equally on the inner plane. Light is the most omnipresent element in nature. The universe is made up of light, which then becomes vibrations and sound. The purpose of this album is to help bring “light” to the listener in as many forms as possible.

Tracklist:

1. The Way of the White Clouds

2. First Light

3. Timeless Journey

4. Full Moon Night

5. A Celebration of Life

6. Sacred Ground

7. Waves of Light

8. Tides of Time

9. A Deeper Light

Listen to Music

Facebook:

Sherry Finzer; https://www.facebook.com/SherryFinzerMusic/

Tom Moore; https://www.facebook.com/voyagertommoore

Offical:

https://heartdancerecords.bandcamp.com/album/let-there-be-light

FLOW – With their debut self titled album FLOW

April 10, 2018 Leave a comment

FLOW

Forty years after Windham Hill became a catalyst for the global musical phenomenon, its bountiful legacy of best-selling solo works (George Winston, Liz Story, Alex DeGrassi, Michael Hedges) and Grammy-winning ensembles (Shadowfax) – extends into a truly new age with FLOW – a new four-piece ensemble comprised of Windham Hill founder and New Age Grammy-winning guitarist Will Ackerman, and three of today’s most acclaimed independent award-winning artists, Australian pianist Fiona Joy Hawkins , acoustic guitarist Lawrence Blatt and flugelhorn master Jeff Oster.

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The Sheyana Band – Feature Album Big Love

April 10, 2018 Leave a comment

A fine album of easy listening blues rock that harkens back to the greats of the 70’s as well as maintaining a modern flavour.

Having just played Party In The Paddock the band are set for big things. The Sheyana Band are a collective of rock-solid rhythms, impassioned vocals and tightly packaged toe-tapping grooves steeped in blues and storytelling.

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Tailor Birds – Feature album Stilts on the Water

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Tailor Birds

Sophie Kinston is Tailor Birds. Stilts on the Water is Tailor Birds newest album release it’s music that soothes the soul, warms the spirit, and ignites your passions, a 37 minute single piece that weaves its way from lullaby to mid tempo electronic.

Highly recommended – see review below-

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THE MEZCALTONES – Newest album Second

April 10, 2018 Leave a comment

THE MEZCALTONES

Favourites at Tamworth and other Festivals we are proud to have this great new album to send to cafes.

It’s more than a band, its a show… With ATTITUDE!

THE MEZCALTONES are inspired by cool tunes from Tito and Tarantula, Dick Dale, Link Wray, Los Lobos, Santana and other artists from this genre. The attitude of those famous Tarantino/ Robert Rodrigues flicks, Cowboy movies and B grade low budget 1960’s teen movies.

Featuring a Tex Mex, 60’s, cowboy rockabilly surf guitar style of twang and incorporating Mimi’s spellbinding dance moves, they are hard to pigeonhole. They have performed at the Sydney Winterfest BLUES festival, four Tamworth COUNTRY music festivals and the Sydney BLUES & ROOTS festival. Their debut CD was voted #6 in the Top Ten CDs of 2016 by 100% ROCK magazine. They have been described by some as Mexican Hillbilly surf music, Alt country, Cowboy Blues Brothers, cowpunk, Surferbilly and more… one thing everyone does agree upon is THE MEZCALTONES are highly entertaining!

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Yhan Leal – New Self titled Album

February 16, 2018 Leave a comment

Soundslikecafe is proud to feature this fine album from the beautiful Seven Rivers area of Northern NSW

It’s been two fertile years for Yhan Leal since he released his last recording. Quietly determined, Leal has come from busking nightly outside Bellingen’s local supermarket, to developing a career as a bona fide touring and recording artist.

Leal’s new album, the eponymous Yhan Leal, was recorded between Leal’s home in Bellingen and in various Sydney studios with Producer Ryan Miller. The new full length album contains all the ethereal dreaminess, melodic guitars and haunting harmonies that are the halmark of Yhan’s hypnotic style, but also takes a new direction with the augmentation of a full band and production on several tracks. Themes of love, loss and grief, travel, peace and freedom, are explored with a maturity and honesty, that has developed with Leal’s own journey of genuine musical evolution.

Track List:

By The Wayside

Long Lost Poems

Venice

Twilight

Up on the mountain

Lucia

Ships

Grace

Wildfire

Weblinks

Facebook: www.facebook.com/yhanlealmusic

http://yhanleal.com

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Flutist’s-USA’s Sherry Finzer & Aussie Based Peter Sheridan Team Up

November 17, 2017 Leave a comment

500-Traveler COVER Sherry Finzer Peter Sheridan

New Age composer and flutist Sherry Finzer (US), and classical low flute specialist Peter Sheridan (AU) join forces to bring a new and imaginative collaboration called TRAVELER. The album came about after Sherry and Peter performed together several times in a Phoenix based flute choir known as DEF Project (Desert Echoes Flute Project) conducted by Christina Steffen.

Sherry is based in Phoenix, AZ, US, and Peter in Melbourne, Victoria, AU. Sherry has released many previous award winning New Age recordings on her label, Heart Dance Recordings, and Peter many classical recordings receiving accolades on low flutes on the Move Music label, commissioning over 70 compositions for low flutes.

They both brought new and creative ideas to their project, taking listeners on a journey through time, both terrestrial and non-terrestrial. The last track, Joy, leaves listeners with a very memorable and upbeat tune to celebrate the joy of life. Both artists are active members of the USA National Flute Association.

Peter and Sherry plan on touring and performing music from Traveler both in the US and Australia in the summer and fall of 2018.

Sherry is a Phoenix based flutist, performer and composer, and runs Heart Dance Recordings – a label consisting of artists with a focus on relaxation and healing music.

You can listen to and follow Sherry on Pandora, Spotify, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Her music can be purchased on Amazon, Apple Music and Bandcamp. For more info about Sherry visit www.heartdancerecordings.com or www.sherryfinzer.com

Peter is a founding member of the LA Flute Quartet, and has worked with the Hollywood Studio Orchestra, Australian Philharmonic, Australian National Academy of Music, Grand Canyon Music Festival (on PBS), Aspen Music Festival (NPR), Pasadena and Thousand Oaks symphonies, Arizona Opera Company and many more.

You can listen to Peter’s music on Spotify, and follow him on Facebook. For more information about Peter, please visit www.lowflutes.com

The first track from the Traveler Release ‘Leaving Earth’ appears on the Soundslikecafe Spotify Playlist

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Loren Evarts – Home Again

Big Merino – Suburban Wildlife

Joel Leffler – Strip Me Bare

Sherry Finzer & Tom Moore – Let There Be Light

FLOW – With their debut self titled album FLOW

The Sheyana Band – Feature Album Big Love

Tailor Birds – Feature album Stilts on the Water

Tailor Birds

THE MEZCALTONES – Newest album Second

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Yhan Leal – New Self titled Album

Flutist’s-USA’s Sherry Finzer & Aussie Based Peter Sheridan Team Up

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