The Loudini Rock and Roll Circus
Music:Music Commentary
LIGHTS AND BRIDGES is what happens when a composer of global, border-dissolving tones and beats decides to condense his symphonic visions into intimate, yet still epic slices of song, lyric and sound. It’s the evocative collision of voice and acoustic guitar stripped to its melodic essence. It’s the lush whisper of breathtaking harmony and atmosphere. It’s echoes of icons like CSN, Simon & Garfunkel, and Nick Drake. It’s a conversation with contemporaries like Bon Iver, José González, and Eliot Smith.
It’s the poetic designation that singer-songwriter Tom Rossi has taken on to imagine a new musical landscape, the kind of collection of song and texture you want to envelope yourself in at hushed dusk or midnight. Rossi’s best known for beautiful, groove laden, wordless world music records like Salma Har, featured on tastemaker programs like BBC/PRI's The World, NPR's Echoes and Talk of the Nation. So LIGHTS AND BRIDGES becomes at once an avenue for reinvention, a return to roots, and a distillation.
Rossi’s a fluent multi-instrumentalist in everything from ceremonial Ghanaian hand drums to African kora. He’s a therapeutic musician, who’s dedicated years to the art of performing for those in the most vulnerable condition of hospice care. It’s both intriguing and rewarding to hear these unusual skills and influences filter through the lens of more conventional instrumentation and song structure on instant classics like Superball (a collab with poet, Rich Ferguson) and Outside The Wall.
LIGHTS AND BRIDGES doesn’t demand attention. It’s the kind of subtle musical spell one has to lean into to truly receive. Producer Guy Erez creates immersive arrangements that magnetize via their purity and restraint. With release set for September 5th, 2017, and the song Lemonade featured in new indie cinema favorite, Gala & Godfrey, LIGHTS AND BRIDGES is already wooing the attention of creators and appreciators alike. This breathtaking four-song debut only promises many more to come.
Loudini Reviews Hotel California
Loudini Interviews Ed Roman
Nirvana's Nevermind The Record that Started a Revolution
Is Rock and Roll Keeping Women Down
Rush's Moving Pictures 35 Years Later
Revisiting Stone Temple Pilots' debut Core
Greatest Guitar Driven Rock You Won't Hear Anywhere Else
How Can Rock be Dead when's so much AMAZING Rock Is Coming out in 2017
Loudini Interviews Mike Cykoski of A IS FOR ATOM
Loudini Interviews Sharon Knight
Loudini Interviews LUSH CAMP
Loudini Interviews EDDY MANN
Loudini Interviews Don DiLego
Loudini Interviews Mark Fern of The Honeyriders
Loudini Interviews Alex Vans
The Winter Sounds: Preaching Post-Punk-Indie-New-Wave from Nashville to Estonia
Violet Bell: Living Life On Vacation
Light, Shadow, and Beauty. The life of Music Photographer Rob Lundberg
Pam Taylor: "Stop Complaining and Start Creating" The Power of Fun and Intention!
Eddy Clearwater, Playing the Blues for 60 years with No Sign of Slowing Down
Join Podbean Ads Marketplace and connect with engaged listeners.
Advertise Today
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Superfancast
Bandsplain
Switched on Pop
One Song
R&B Money