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Bitter Tastes, mystery for kids 8-12, to be released by Stargazer Pres
Bitter Tastes, a new novel by V.B. Rosendahl, will be released in November 2006 by Barrie, Ontario publishing company Stargazer Press (. Sixth-grader Kathy Harmon has just moved from Cherry Hill, New Jersey to Warner, Nor Henry Hill announces new Manager Daryl Orrhttp://performingarts.press-
"To No One" - Daylight's for the Birds
Lush, swirly, airy noise in service to melody--call it shoegaze if we must (must we??), but I'd much rather dig into the sound than attach that odd (if apparently indelible) label to a sonic reality this deep and rich. The aural palette favored by this NYC-based quartet lends an immediate tension to the amorphous introduction, as two predominant sounds emerge, vibrate, and grow through the first drum-free, beat-free 45 seconds--one sounding like a synth-enhanced guitar, metallic and pulsing, the other a choral wash of keyboard. Listen carefully for two things arising from that: a submerged melody line by something that sounds like a faraway organ, and a flute-like synthesizer sound that flutters into being from the noise and eventually takes up the melody begun by the "organ." I really like this flute-y thing, which seems so unexpected and yet weaves so organically into the ongoing texture (the storied "no lead guitar" sound characteristic of whatever we want to call this genre). The way the drummer drums skippingly around the beat through the verse is another indelible part of the airy soundscape, along with singer Amanda Garrett's surprisingly strong voice: in lieu of the wispier vocal stylings often heard in this environment, Garrett sings with pop-like heft and character, even when she's mixed back into the whorl of it all. Daylight's for the Birds is a NYC-based quartet that features, among others, Phillip Wann, formerly of On!Air!Library! (which disbanded last year). The MP3 is available via the Deli, a fine online publication about the NYC rock scene. (The MP3 is also up on the band's MySpace page, but Fingertips at this point will not to link to MySpace downloads because they cause too many problems for too many visitors.)
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