Liam Singer - Finish Him - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Drinking Flowers aesthetic is the bones of glam, boiled in the blood of disco. The Drinking Flowers mission is to be a crystal podium towering over the dance floor of pop politique. With an ethos so fundamentally rooted in rhythm that the music with a message paradigm is shattered into a thousand shimmering pieces. It s no wonder that the group exudes the confidence of political emissaries from some undiscovered nightclub planet.'New Swirled Order' is the sound of the California shore kissing the dirty cheek of late 80s London. It is out via Manifesto Records on vinyl, CD.

Since moving to Lopez Island in Puget Sound last year, Liam Bailey has learned to simplify. InchI want to sing about the mystery of our brief and beautiful time on earth together. It's not that I want to understand it or define it for anybody else, but I need my listeners to know that I am in awe of our earthly circumstances and that they should be too. There's a party going on and we're all invited.Inch Sometimes Bailey's dissection of the mystery can come across as religious examination, or at least flirting with those concepts, but really it's just more evidence of the way that bluegrass, blues and other American music has seeped under his skin. While Bailey has always been comfortable playing a range of styles, he's now loose enough in his interpretive abilities to experiment with instruments he's not proficient in. He has abandoned the electric guitar for the mandolin, and has been playing the three-string tres in a Cuban band on Lopez. After attending high school in Holland and the USA, Bailey attended college in Boston. Inch I was shamed out of my heavy metal passion and my tastes changed very quickly,Inch Bailey recounts. InchI got right into jazz and then bluegrass after that.Inch His biggest influence has been guitarist Bill Frisell. InchHe wasn't ashamed of his roots in rock and roll. He incorporated them into his jazz playing and melded them with bluegrass and Americana. He has a unique approach and so do I.Inch Like Frisell, Bailey didn't want to be limited to one genre of music. InchI became passionate about everything I heard,Inch Bailey admits. InchIf I listened to Django then I wanted to play swing, if I listened to Dave Douglas I wanted to play jazz and if I listened to Jeff Buckley then I wanted to play rock. It's still that way.Inch In addition to guitar, he took on the fiddle as well as the mandolin. He also began to sing. His first tag-released a

Following a recording that Downbeat magazine declared a InchmasterpieceInch in it's 2010 year-end edition, Sillery just proceeds on in doing what he does best - creating forward-looking, modern, articulate jazz with his tight knit ensemble of equally inspired improvisers. Never creating obvious or overly predictable music, his trumpet solos are full of subtle surprises while his compositions are fresh and highly original. Sillery's 5th solo outing on OA2 further reveals a singular artist in the prime of his artistic development.InchTrumpeter Liam Sillery's InchPhenomenologyInch is so natural that only one word can be used to describe it perfect.Inch - Downbeat.