Warrior Song is instantly pleasing, powerful and rich. Norwegian transplanted New York based Hildegunn Gjedrem has everything that you could want in a jazz vocalist, and she isn’t hard to look at either. While this is most certainly vocal jazz, it is very accessible and totally pleasing to the ear. You can find out more information on Hildegunn Gjedrem by visiting her web site. (social links included). You can purchase a digital copy of the long-player Share Your Secret on her bandcamp site as…
Read MoreBerlin, Germany Electro-Pop duo, Jack Beauregard is like air in the mountains; fresh and clean. The spare instrumentation used on You Drew a Line from 2011’s long-player, The Magazines You Read, serves to draw attention to the duo’s vocal harmonies. This is pop music lovingly expressed! There is no unified one-stop for Jack Beauregard, so to find out information, you’ll have to use a host of sources. To help with that, here is the band’s Facebook and MySpace links. Enjoy Jack Beauregard’s…
Read MoreBack in 2011, I found My Bubba & Mi on Jamendo.com, and really liked their stuff. With instruments that usually include only guitar and table harp-with an occasional banjo thrown in for good measure, and two-part harmonized vocals, My Bubba & Mi (Bubba is from Iceland and My is from Sweden) cast a spell with what they call “lullabies from the countryside.” Their tunes are generally slow and breezy, but Wild & You is an exception to that rule, with…
Read MoreZombies. Things that make you go “Hmmmm?” Catherine Feeny has a delightful breathy vocal delivery, similar in some ways to Suzanne Vega. Here on People in the Hole, Catherine explores what we don’t know about zombies and what zombies don’t know about us. It’s very tongue-in-cheek funny, and yet if you were listening to this song without the video, you would just be transfixed with Catherine’s vocals, rather than what’s going on here lyrically. The video helps! Catherine Feeny is a…
Read MoreBack in February, I posted the fine music of Cheyenne Marie Mize in the form of Friend. Just heard this song recently and it reminded me of how much I liked the music of Cheyenne. Say hello and welcome to the bluesy, nearly acapela rendering of Wishing Well, from her 2012 EP (vinyl only as far as I can tell) We Don’t Need. As always, check out Cheyenne Marie Mize on her web site. Yes, you’ll find the various social links there…
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