Joanna Brouk - Sounds of The SeaJoanna Brouks most ambitious recording, Sounds of The Sea, is a concept album full of mystery and eroticism. A conch shell bookends this journey into the deep, going down and down and down further, never reaching bottom. Drawing inspiration from various legends of mermaids and sailors, Brouk weaves circling flutes, vocals, drones and whale songs to describe a sense of unfathomable longing more clearly than words could ever express. Sounds of The Sea

The breezy sweetness of “Pleasure” could pass for a song by Spanish folk darlings Picnic

There’s also a long folk tradition here

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 Forth Wanderers feels joyous

musical shapes were making themselves known seemingly of their own volition

new-aged Crooning one

Beautiful unfettered music surfaces

also worked with the Conjunto/Sexteto Miramar and Rafael BenÌ_tez as well as pianist Joe Madrid) and a full combo with trumpet

Adding to the rowdy energy of the album is the fact that the band recorded these tracks live in the studio

In the score

paring tracks back to their elements and foregrounding the melodies

the long-drawn-out riff-fests sharpened into addictive hammerblows and the nihilistic dirges of yore alchemically transformed into an uplifting and inviting barrage of hedonistic abandon