Mikaela Davis - Graceland Way - 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

Danish band Efterklang returns with their seventh studio album 'Things We Have In Common', set for on September 27th via City Slang. An album about friendship, belonging, faith and understanding, themes which are palpable in the music, which is gentle and uplifting, healing and rousing. Efterklang has become an open community with three permanent members Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen and Rasmus Stolberg. On this album the core trio re-connected with their old friend and founding Efterklang member Rune Mølgaard who left the band in 2007 to join the mormon church, and ultimately withdrew from the church in 2022. His profound spiritual journey significantly influences the album's content and tone, on which he has co-written seven of the nine songs.

Jonathan Goldman - The Divine Name I AM [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/14/2013