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Americana Highways premieres James Houlahan’s new track “Let It Go”

James HoulihanAmericana Highways brings you this song, “Let It Go,” from James Houlahan’s upcoming release The Wheel Still in Spin, produced by Fernando Perdomo (Linda Perhacs, Jakob Dylan). With Houlahan on guitar and vocals, Perdomo on bass and keyboards, the album also features Danny Frankel (Lou Reed, Fiona Apple, Nels Cline) on percussion and drums.  Esther Clark sings backup vocals.

Houlahan sings a sorrowful “Smothered in the night but how it burns upon my skin, the flickering of the light” with Clark’s lilting vocals riding above: “let it go.”  The pain of human reluctance to let things go that we once loved is palpable in this little gem…….READ MORE

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LA soul/R&B artist EE Beyond shares her debut EP, Watercolor Lies, at Ghettoblaster Magazine

In a political and social climate that instigates varying, majorly negative sentiments at a daily rate, finding a mode to articulate simultaneous anger, disappointment, and consequential  gratitude for existing comforts is a formidable feat. Enter EE Beyond, the Los Angeles-based soul and R&B singer/songwriter whose sonic influences stem from Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu, and whose lyrical inspirations arise from the fictions she and her peers have been told. Oscillating from a voice that is soft and gentle to one that can be sharp and biting, Elaine Faye, the brainchild behind the project, tackles her frustrations over personal and national circumstances with an admirably controlled urgency. READ MORE…

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Wide Open Country gives Ben Fisher’s new LP “Does the Land Remember Me?” a wonderful review

Ben FisherThe title of Ben Fisher‘s new album is not a rhetorical question. Does the Land Remember Me? is the existential question of anyone who is raised Jewish. A central tenet of the religion, after all, is that we are the chosen people of a promised land. Conservative billionaire Sheldon Adelstein foots the bill for a program that allows young Jewish people to travel to Israel free of charge to better understand their heritage. But is it truly possible to have a connection to a place that, statistically, your ancestors did not live in for generations upon generations? Especially if the country you grew up in feels most like home?

Musically, Fisher’s album is fairly minimal — it’s mostly his voice with some piano accompaniment, though a few songs have larger backing bands. With no disrespect to the musicians on the album, the music is not the main event here. Damian Jurado, who produced the album, lets the lyrics take center stage. Instead, Fisher focuses on the 60-odd year history of a country that asserts its legitimacy on the basis of ancient history. Fisher is no stranger to the region, having lived there as a journalist, seeking to tell the stories of Israelis and Palestinians alike. Does the Land Remember Me? is an extension of that work.

Fisher’s telling of Israel’s story is wide-ranging: he describes the initial distribution of land among Jewish settlers in Tel Aviv in 1906; the viewpoints of both Jewish and Palestinian children; the confusion of a bomber in the Israeli Defense Force; the blithe optimism of a Jewish settler crossing into what’s now the Gaza Strip.

That’s a song that’s worthy of some attention, especially on this site. “Yallah to Abdullah” opens with some gentle slide guitar and a verse about a train. Textbook country music. By using…..READ MORE

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Adobe and Teardrops reviews Ben Fisher’s new album “Does the Land Remember Me?”

Ben FisherThe title of Ben Fisher’s new album is not a rhetorical question. Does the Land Remember Me? is the existential question of anyone who is raised Jewish. A central tenet of the religion, after all, is that we are the chosen people of a promised land. Conservative billionaire Sheldon Adelstein foots the bill for a program that allows young Jewish people to travel to Israel free of charge to better understand their heritage. But is it truly possible to have a connection to a place that, statistically, your ancestors did not live in for generations upon generations? Especially if the country you grew up in feels most like home?

Fisher’s telling of Israel’s story is wide-ranging: he describes the initial distribution of land among Jewish settlers in Tel Aviv in 1906; the viewpoints of both Jewish and Palestinian children; the confusion of a bomber in the Israeli Defense Force; the blithe optimism of a Jewish settler crossing into what’s now the Gaza Strip.

Musically, Fisher’s album is fairly minimal — it’s mostly his voice with some piano accompaniment, though a few songs have larger backing bands. With no disrespect to the musicians on the album, the music is not the main event here. Damian Jurado, who produced the album, lets the lyrics take center stage. Instead, Fisher focuses on the 60-odd year history of a country that asserts its legitimacy on the basis of ancient history. Fisher is no stranger to the region, having lived there as a journalist, seeking to tell the stories of Israelis and Palestinians alike. Does the Land Remember Me? is an extension of that work.

That’s a song that’s worthy of some attention, especially on this site. “Yallah to Abdullah” opens with some gentle slide guitar and a verse about a train. Textbook country music. By using……READ MORE

 

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Americana UK reviews Ben Fisher’s new LP “Does the Land Remember Me?”

Ben FisherSo, it was with some surprise and no little trepidation that a request to review Ben Fisher’s Folk/Americana album ‘Does the Land Remember Me?’ dropped into the in-box. Why the trepidation?  Well, it’s not every day that you get asked to review what is described by Fisher’s PR company as “an entire concept album” focused on the subject of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict!  Don’t let that put you off though. Seattle based Fisher, who has a degree in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, has crafted a simply brilliant and hugely moving piece of work.

Fisher should certainly know what he’s talking about.  After graduating from the University of Washington, he upped sticks and moved to Jerusalem where he found work as a bartender as well as reporting and travelling for the Jerusalem Post.  However, this isn’t an album focused on his personal experiences borne of three years living in the no man’s land between the Arab East and the predominantly Jewish West of that conflicted city.

This is instead a bleak but honest portrait of the Israeli and Palestinian people, who have been locked in a cycle of violence for the better part of the last century. “One of the biggest issues is that people are no longer interested in what happens there,” Fisher says. “It’s gone on for so long, the peace process is so gridlocked and there have been so many people killed. The world has become numb to it.”

His PR company states that ‘Does the Land Remember Me?’ is a “career-making record, timely and crucial”.  They are not wrong.  This is a politically charged album that may well alienate those with a differing worldview to Fisher’s, but it’s an immensely inspired piece of work that examines the Israeli/Palestinian conflict through multiple lenses.  This is an album that truly matters….READ MORE

 

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Earbuddy premieres the new single from jangle-pop/art-rocker Ward White

LA-based singer/songwriter Ward White will release a new album, Diminish, on November 2nd. On the album, White uses death as a vessel through which White explores humanity and relationships. While you might expect something gloomy, it’s quite the contrary. White’s delicate vocals and the shimmering jangle rock melodies invite you in rather than push you away. READ MORE…