Foxy Digitalis
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Wilder Maker’s Gabriel Birnbaum! Wilder Maker have an incredible new record on the way, “The Streets Like Beds Still Warm.” It’s the first in a trilogy that tells a story of one night in the city from dusk to dawn. I love it. We talked about […]
Walt McClements draws deep, emotive catharsis from a raging stillness on On A Painted Ocean. Amidst its dense sonic mosaic, woven with patterned movements and transcendent melodies, the music holds us in place, suspended in its atmosphere. The accordionist and multi-instrumentalist spent years untangling the threads that eventually became this album, writing and recording across […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Chuck Johnson! His new album, “Sun Glories,” has been out for a few months, but it’s hitting harder as the temperatures finally drop here. We got into the record, the nature of collaboration, hope, and more before digging into his picks. Chuck kept me on my […]
I am soaked to the bone, wandering aimlessly through flooded streets and ready to melt into the next fire that catches my eye. Something like that, anyway. Every time I put on Gabriel Birnbaum’s Nightwater | All the Dead Do is Dream, I am misty and romantic, ready to saunter under the midnight glass. Each instrumental […]
Summer vacation officially ends tomorrow and while part of me is happy to get back on some semblance of a schedule, it’s been such a great couple of months that I’m mostly bummed. I think the kid is a little sick of me (even if she doesn’t admit it), but I’ve been having way too […]