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"Look At Her Face" - the Coral Sea
A terrifically put together song from a Santa Barbara-based band with a good-looking future. Offering dynamics legitimately deserving of the overused adjective "cinematic," the Coral Sea melds musical elements from a number of different decades, or maybe even centuries, to create an artfully assembled space that feels both layered and airy. The sense of urgency pervading the opening section is driven largely by the pulsings of a string quartet, of all things; when a simple, resonant piano line enters at 1:28, the song opens up magnificently, achieving a U2-esque grandeur even as singer/songwriter Rey Villalobos, with his sweet, pitch-perfect pop voice, keeps the enterprise rooted on earth rather than in the heavens somewhere. The son of a cinematographer (ah!), Villalobos is a classically-trained musician who lists Chopin among his influences; easier ones to pick out here might be the Beatles (John Lennon in particular), the Moody Blues, the Pixies, and Bends-era Radiohead, and yet this doesn't really sound like any of them. "Look At Her Face" is the opening song on the band's debut CD, "Volcano and Heart," self-released under the Red Clover Records imprint in July. The MP3 is hosted on the band's site. Thanks to the gang at 3hive for the lead. Michigan author Renee Hand and Publish America, of Baltimore, MD are p
Michigan author Renee Hand and Publish America, of Baltimore, MD are please to announce the release of her new book, Magic Hearts, ISBN 1-4137-9287-1, a fictional romantic novel set in early Europe. Corinne McCathy was young, clever, and beautiful. Bo Author Feather Schwartz Foster To Discuss "Garfield's Train" on Patrio
AREA – Author Feather Schwartz Foster, of Scotch Plains, NJ, will be making a return appearance on Rick Adams’ “Community Corner” Television Show, to be aired on Patriot-8 Cable TV. The program is aired to households in the Somerset, Mercer, Hunterdon an
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