![]() ![]() Also, I will be much more likely to review an album if it is not sent as a promo blast/press kit. However, I only review albums I like, and the “reviews” themselves (“blurbs” might be a more accurate label, but god, what an awful word) are more intended to encourage discovery rather than to express my personal opinion. When I say nothing is off limits, I really mean it. If you have an album you’d like me to review, please email me or comment on a post. I tend to focus on material that resides in the experimental or avant-garde realm of music, but nothing is off limits. I do not agree with the statement I’ve chosen as the title for this site everything I write about here-a great deal of which could be called “noise”-is music. Here you’ll find reviews of recent albums, various features and lists, and occasional mixes. This is truly amazing and addictive stuff-”compulsively replayable” doesn’t even do it justice. ![]() Distorted mutters and nonverbals from answering machines running low on batteries, brooding piano, and restless mic shuffles melt and blur into each other on “Remember Hot Day,” while slurred, scraping string resolutions and intimate domestic creaks knit a warm, moth-eaten swaddling blanket on “Sick, Sweet Coffee.” Emf interference and loose connection hum, things that are usually avoided when using analog equipment, is frequently foregrounded and made unignorably inconspicuous, especially in “Grocery Store Tobacco,” a shifty, shadowy web of error and inconsequence, and “Corncob Pipe, Long Dead” is a fittingly rickety closer, almost rhythmic with its subtle metronomic thump concealed behind the amplified noises of indoor life. Dominated by the omnipresent crackle of a dusty record spinning on a dinky old player, the first three tracks on Cardinal Birddon’t merely flit back and forth between the sublime and the surreal-it melds them, casually and cohesively, into a single complex conglomerate. The diverse trifecta of influenced listed by the artist seem to be more conceptual connections as far as the music itself goes, I see cues taken, whether intentionally or not, from moldy corner-dwelling outsiders of all eras: Shadow Ring, Idea Fire Company, the Hafler Group, Barn Sour. Take a chance, central Iowa, and take in a string-pickin’, boot-stompin’ Cardinal Sound concert this summer.Ĭardinal Sound performs at the Des Moines Art Festival on June 25 Alluvial Brewing in Ames on July 16 and Cellar Peanut Pub/Gezellig Brewing in Newton on July 23 for the summer music series.“Indebted to Mark Fisher, Pauline Oliveros, and Peter Blasser,” Delicate Hand’s second release (following August’s 6 & 7) is a masterwork of murk, murmur, and mystery. “COVID has pushed things back, and we’re happy to play again.” “We’re super excited about the arts fest and getting back to playing outdoor festivals,” Berry said. This summer, the band will play on the stage at the Des Moines Arts Festival. Breweries and wineries, including the iconic Greenwood Lounge, are some of their favorite places to play. They’ve played on the local stages for the 80/35 Musical Festival, Hinterland, Ingersoll Live and the Pirates of Ponderosa in Montezuma. Band members do double duty with other bands, such as Fox, who plays fiddle with the String Profits.įestivals and local bars are a good place to discover Cardinal Sound. The band has written and released one album and is currently writing songs, hoping to record a second album. ![]() “We’ll even play some Talking Heads with a bluegrass twist and other popular music for fun,” Berry said. In addition to Americana and folk music, they’ll throw in some jam band music from the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd and Phish. “When people see us for the first time, there’s lots of interest.” “Some confuse us with country music - which we’re not,” Berry said. Some concert-goers are initially unsure of what bluegrass music is. Cardinal Sound attracts new fans at each of their gigs. Festivals all around the Midwest are popping up that include bluegrass and folk music. If you’re an “O Brother Where Art Thou?” fan, you’ll recall the Soggy Bottom Boys cheerfully sing bluegrass music and other folk songs throughout the cult classic movie.īluegrass is wildly popular in Colorado with the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. The Father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe, hailed from Kentucky - thus, the genre’s name. The name “bluegrass” comes from the fields of Kentucky, when settlers thought the fields of grass looked blue. Bluegrass is popular in its birthplace of Kentucky and surrounding states. ![]()
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