Haylie Davis - Wandering Star - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Five years since her debut album Delivery, Mikaela Davis has moved away from her hometown of Rochester, shared the stage with the likes of Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Christian McBride, Bon Iver, Lake Street Dive and Circles Around the Sun and entered a new decade. But it's the ever-evolving relationships between her closest friends and bandmates that has propelled the Hudson Valley-based artist onto her latest album And Southern Star-a truly collaborative effort that ruminates on the choices we make, and the people we always come back to.The band, made up of Davis (harp/vocals), Alex Coté (drums), Cian McCarthy (guitars/vocals), Shane McCarthy (bass/vocals) and Kurt Johnson (steel guitar), have been playing together for over a decade and it's the first time they've appeared on a full length record together. Weaving 60s pop-soaked melodies, psychedelia and driving folk rock, And Southern Star picks apart the reflection we used to recognise, while trying to build a new one. It navigates the periphery of past selves, the coexistence of isolation and excitement in a new environment and the tension of growing away from what we thought we wanted, tackling it with a luscious, kaleidoscopic grace. InchI finally feel like this album is more me than anything else that's been released,Inch Davis says, adding that producing the album along with her four bandmates allowed them to carve out their own ideas, rather than someone else's. It's the band's collective step into adulthood that has informed much of And Southern Star's thematic landscape.1. Cinderella2. Home In The Country3. One Of These Days4. Promise5. The Pearl6. Saturday Morning7. Far From You8. Don't Stop Now9. Leave It Alone

With his second holiday-themed album, GRAMMY® Award-winning saxophonist Kirk Whalum asks How Does Christmas Sound? by finding a more spiritual and introspective sound for Christmas that immediately brings the listener to peace and ready to celebrate the season. More than just another merry round of caroling, the album offers a moment of soul-searching for Christmas revelers and a balm for those whose holidays don't shine as brightly.

2018 from this band featuring Neil Casal. Let It Wander signals a new beginning for the band as they move beyond their original musical mandate of evoking the spirit of the Dead and fully embrace their own personality. InchMore than anything, what you hear on this album is a band growing into it's own sound,Inch Casal says. The songs on Let It Wander are focused and filled with imaginative musical turns. Horne and Levy form a veritable groove machine that knows intuitively when to tighten up and when to stretch out. They expand and collapse the rhythmic pocket around Casal and MacDougall, who pass melodies back and forth in an elaborate game of musical tag as they take turns adding color and shade from a seemingly endless kaleidoscope of cosmic sounds.