Dan de Chellis - Breathe In - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Guitarist Dan Liparini's debut album InchTessellationsInch is a collection of original music written over the last several years, blending Jazz with elements of folk and ambient music. The meditative, winding title track appears just two songs before the slow gritty InchBooze BluesInch, which gives way to InchConvergenceInch; an up-tempo, mixed-meter odyssey with overdriven guitar and Wurlitzer. Although the record reflects a variety of influences, the identity of the music stays true throughout, with earthy melodies and intuitive playing by Jen Allen (keyboards), Matt Dwonsyzk (bass) and Eric Hallenbeck (drums).

2018 . Massimo Vivona is one of the unsung veterans of Namlook's Fax catalog, and one of the least notorious. Most of his work in the 90s centered around the then-fashionable areas of hypnotic trance, and though ambient pieces occasionally cropped up on his Fax productions, he was known more for auguring intense beatstorms rather than becalming ambient monsoons. With this utterly captivating new long-player, Vivona's not only flipped his own model, he's upped the ante. Taking cues from the breathless arpeggiated fantasias of Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze, née the instigators of the well-defined 70s Berlin School, Vivona's mapped out his own well-articulated star maps and plotted a true interstellar pathway to the cosmos. With reams of velvety, pulsating sequencers, skeins of prog-epic Moog, and a whole host of otherworldly vintage synths taking flight like sleek, analog eagles, Vivona's managed to concoct a modern-day Teutonic masterpiece, broad in scope, limitless in outreach, kaleidoscopic and eventful in equal measure. This is the kind of aural galactica that many practice but few lift-off; it's a testament to Vivona's skills that he can so effectively marry decades of synthesizer workout with such a stark and contemporaneous feel. Beautiful, bodacious, and bold, like the grandeur of the 70s masters, this one is literally godlike.

On her forthcoming record, Rose Cousins holds our hands as she guides us on a journey through the Inchconditions of love.Inch Ever the emotional explorer, the acclaimed, Nova-Scotia-based folk artist seeks truth, in all it's imperfection, in the depths of our most complicated of emotions love. Co-produced with trusted friend and longtime bandmate Joshua Van Tassel, this new collection of songs sees Rose return to her first love, the piano. InchPiano is where I feel the most connected. It's the best partner in expressing the emotion I'm mining,Inch she shares. Rose's work as garnered her two JUNO Awards (2013's We Have Made a Spark & 2021's Bravado), two Canadian Folk Music Awards, eleven East Coast Music Awards and one Grammy nomination (2018's Natural Conclusion), along with praise from the likes of the CBC, No Depression, LA Times, Billboard, Folk Alley, and NPR, who raved InchCousins' disarmingly fluid vocal tone has the ability to convey the most internalized feelings without an ounce of fuss.Inch Over the years, she has shared stages with Patty Griffin, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Jann Arden, Bruce Cockburn, Josh Ritter, Kathleen Edwards, Joe Henry, Aoife O'Donovan and Anais Mitchell, and her music has fittingly underscored scenes from notable TV shows including Grey's Anatomy, Fire Country, Station 19, and Batwoman, along with several independent films.