Forrest Vantuyl - Old Trails - VINYL LP

During the last half-decade Joe Westerlund became engrossed instudying the clave, the metric pattern that first defined so muchAfro-Cuban and Latin music and then drifted into almost every cornerof jazz and rock. What did it mean for an idea to be so flexible, for itto fit so many forms while retaining it's own essence? The result isaleap into the unknown for Westerlund Curiosities from the Shift, a12-track playground of endlessly interwoven beats and melodies,where Westerlund's clave enthusiasm collides with his texturalexperimentalism, where his rhythmic symphony of one shakes handswith friends decorating this space alongside him.The three-piece suite that holds Curiosities' first half begins with thejunkyard percussion and delightful bass splashes that frame InchTemInchand ends with the surrealistic boom-bap of thumb pianos andshakers on InchCan Tangle.Inch There is a hard-won joy to these numbers,as if Westerlund is delighting in real time in spotting a potential deadend but finding his own way forward, anyway. Those songs becamea kind of working roadmap for the terrain that Westerlund exploresacross Curiosities, from the call-and-response glory of opener InchNuMale UnoInch to the uncanny amorphousness of closer InchFelt LikeFloating.Inch All of these songs are defined by an identifiable rhythm,like the loping strut at the center of InchMidpointInch and the head-noddingpulse that winds through InchPersurverance,Inch winkingly misspelled tosuit his North Carolina-via-Wisconsin pronunciation. But those arespringboards for other textures, moods, and notions, like the NewAge references-shimmering metallophones, chattering birds, retiringflutes-that circle through InchMidpointInch or the dub-indebted delays andgamelan hymns that bubble up through InchPersurverance.Inch This isdeeply multivalent music, each number's propulsive corecounterbalanced by a series of surpris

I began doing community theatre, and quickly realized that acting is what I wanted to dedicate my life to, eventually moving to Los Angeles to pursue my craft full-time.It wasnt long before I booked my first acting job on Ugly Betty, which was especially exciting since the show was adapted from a telenovela by a writer from my hometown of Miami. That's when I got my SAG card, and my professional journey really began.Some of my notable credits in film and television now include roles on Westworld, Doom Patrol, NCIS New Orleans, Capone, Bones, and the Sony / Netflix action film Sniper G.R.I.T.Because my roots emanate from musical theatre, it only made sense that I would eventually reintegrate singing into my offering. Like for so many, the pandemic provided me with the time and space to dive deep into my inner world and process unresolved storylines within my consciousness. What I discovered was that when I really leaned in and listened, the quietest voice inside was actually the loudest, and she was screaming to be heard. What resulted was the birth of my debut album, Burn The Tapes, which is currently available on all streaming platforms

Forest - FOREST [VINYL LP] date 02/03/2023