This captivating session from the Sandcatchers brings together the musics of the Middle-East, the Appalachian Mountains and metropolitan NYC. The melodies of What We Found Along the Way bends and warps and melts into different forms and shapes, one no less compelling than the next. Oud, cello, lap steel, bass and drums kick up some folk music twang, some melodic dancing with maqam improvisation, some hop and bop of modern jazz, and all of it fun and friendly and seriously mesmerizing.
It’s pretty easy to fall for this embrace of Middle-Eastern and Appalachian musics. A charming twang, dexterous melodic leaps, some effusive stomps, and a simple swaying motion all come together on the latest release from the Sandcatchers. The unconventional music extends to the tools utilized to express it. Oud,…
Next year, this post will be better. For the 2017 year-in-review, you get only half an idea. These things come to me in the moment, and I write stuff down and in the deluge of music, that stuff gets forgotten and buried under stacks of lists and one-sheets and…
This was my fifth year to be invited to participate in the Jazz Critics Poll at NPR Music. Begun originally by respected jazz critic Francis Davis back when the Village Voice was his home turf, this nifty compilation of Jazz’s best of 2017 is now housed over at the…
Dec 18 2017
Best of 2017 #47: Sandcatchers – “What We Found Along the Way” (Chant Records)
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