Biedenbender / Deemer / Steinmetz / Wanamaker - Space Between Us - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Audubon Quartet - Cypresses String Quartet in G Op 106 [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/30/1999

The second full-length by Whistler is a shimmering charge of sound, a spell so loud and ambitious it wants to be heard through speakers the size of a door. Notes boom and sway with a sparkling anti-gravity, lifting you into the air, lowering you onto soft fields. In the words of Whistler's vocalist/guitarist Louis Scherfig, InchOur songs musically are quite driven by an idea of beauty.Inch This beauty is paired with a tenacious commitment, each of the nine songs carrying it's own sturdy, balanced grace. It is easy to picture the four members walking circles around each song, shoving here and shaking there, ensuring that everything is firmly grounded, supported, braced. Telltale Sauce is an architectural masterpiece. It's also a head-hung downer. Because for every unforgettable hook, for every harmonized embrace, there's a shattering confrontation in the lyrics. As the twinned, weary voices of Scherfig and Ditte Gyldendal Amby sing on the title track, InchChange is gonna come,Inch before clarifying InchIt'll hunt us down forever.Inch Perhaps Telltale Sauce is best understood as Madchester without the drugs-all the smeared colors and harsh edges of, like, The Stone Roses, but forced into the sober, inevitable light of 2022.

Formed in 2017, Tucson based Borderlands Ensemble formed to foster connections across disciplines and music communities that have traditionally been separated. Inchthe space in which to seeInch specifically draws links between music cultures in Arizona and Mexico, engaging with one of the most dynamic and charged dialogues in our current national landscape. Including works by Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti, Jay Vosk, Vivian Fine, Charles Daniels, Alejandro Vera, as well as traditional Mexican songs arranged by Borderlands Artistic Director Johanna Lundy, this engaging debut speaks to the ensemble's purview to reach out to the region specific audience of the culture rich American Southwest.