Dominique Adams - To Keep - VINYL LP

There is an old Norse myth that says the great northern glaciers stored energy until they burst with fluorescent light, creating the Aurora Borealis. Saariselka is inspired by the meeting of earth and light, where slowly moving land masses merge with enveloping light fields. This sonic collaboration between composers Marielle Jakobsons (Fender Rhodes, organ, synthesizers) and Chuck Johnson (pedal steel guitar and treatments) is as expressive as it is enigmatic. On their debut album, The Ground Our Sky, a kind of new ambient Americana is unearthed and explored. The respectively singular artistry of Jakobsons (who previously cofounded the beguiling Date Palms) and Johnson collectively craft a universe of remarkable resonance. It is a vibrant, seemingly infinite sway of sounds that exists unmoored in time and space. The Ground Our Sky gets it's lift by pondering the universe not while staring up at the sky, but rather down at the ground - gazing into the earth, where we are all individually and collectively a meeting of the ground and the sky. This inverted perspective is at the heart of Saariselka's music. That feeling of becoming ungrounded is universal and inevitable - and increasingly necessary to seize those rare opportunities for meaningful changes in perspective.

SOULAR is Kyle Dion's most personal and powerful album yet, a vibrant mix of soul, R&B, and emotional honesty inspired by a hidden life-threatening medical journey. The focus track SUGA ON THE RIM delivers a sultry, Neptunes-inspired summer anthem with Justified-era grooves and live band energy. Get this highly limited edition half-and-half Orchid/Apricot color vinyl before it's gone!

33 RPM 180 grams black heavyweight vinyl. Dominique Fils-Aimé kicks off her JUNO award winning album InchStay Tuned!Inch with a celebration of motivational drums and encouraging words. Melodic humming links the opening track with the final song on her previous album, InchNameless.Inch This transition comments on how the history of music builds upon itself, in this case, from the blues inspired, InchNamelessInch to the jazz infused InchStay Tuned!Inch By conceptualizing her album trilogy this way, Dominique is figuratively placing herself within the historical and continuous transformation of African American music, mirroring her personal exploration as an artist. The album explores themes of liberation and progress, drawing from the revolutionary jazz movement of the 1920s. It continuously reinvents itself with it's personal and empowering lyrics backed by imaginative musical arrangements. The sound travels through various emotional identities, calling upon these free-form jazz traditions, as well as pushing the boundaries of what is expected by a musical artist.