by eyes cast down | Mar 28, 2011 | Album Reviews
Ari Porki has just released Dimension, his first album with the Hungarian netlabel Limitless. Over eight tracks spanning 53 minutes, Ari channels the northern seasons of his native Finland. Like his predecessor, Jean Sibelius, he skillfully evokes their extremes of...
by eyes cast down | Mar 22, 2011 | Album Reviews
Bob Ohrum, whose 2010 release Elevated I recently reviewed, returns with a reissue of his 2005 album Subliminal Listening, also on the Relaxed Machinery label. This album is Bob’s love letter to his hometown of Buffalo, NY. It plays like an urban version of the...
by eyes cast down | Mar 16, 2011 | Album Reviews
Lucette Bourdin’s 2010 album Horse Heaven, her seventh release on the Earth Mantra netlabel, is excellently described on the album’s release page as one of Lucette’s most mystical, intimate, reflective and spiritual albums. At the same time, it...
by eyes cast down | Mar 5, 2011 | Album Reviews
Singer/songwriter and guitarist Prabhu das’ 2004 album Journey to the Heart lands squarely in the oft-dreaded New Age category, with many of its benefits but – to these ears, at least – none of its drawbacks. Prabhu das’ full-bodied voice is in fine form...
by eyes cast down | Feb 28, 2011 | Album Reviews
Guitarist Bobby Jones, who records as I’ve Lost, has just released Scáth M’anam, his first album on the Relaxed Machinery label. It follows Dissociative Fugue, a two-piece EP released on the Feedback Loop netlabel last year. Scáth M’anam is a Gaelic...