When someone sits down for some careful listening with an album and writes a review that so viscerally represents the music that it makes you want to run right over to your local record store to plunk down your hard-earned cash for the record you just read about, you stand up and take notice andContinue reading “Our Favorite Kind of Review”
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Esbe’s Bold New Vision For Yesterday
Thanks to The Static Dive for Bob Smith’s review of Esbe’s new single Yesterday. “In Esbe’s hands the song has been transformed into a dark ambient meditation.” We couldn’t have put it better. Check out Yesterday on Esbe’s Dog Ranch EPK.
Songlines UK Introduces Badian
AfroPop Worldwide: The Helsinki-Cotonou Ensemble’s New Video Takes You to Benin
AfroPop Worldwide presents the premiere of HCE’s new video for “Min He Mon Ébgé – The One Who Sees Today”. Take the tour with Noel as your guide!
Wednesday is RXB Day
Do you have RXB in your life? Not enough, you say? Well, you better get yourself some RXB3. Get your funky worldly theme and destruction on! Fans of adventuresome piano trios will want to listen to what DownBeat says and tune into the RXB3 live stream on May 16. Lest there be any doubt lingeringContinue reading “Wednesday is RXB Day”
Two Roses in DownBeat
Since Dog Ranch Music PR founder Ron is a jazz musician at heart and a double bassist to boot, you can imagine his delight at placing Bass Hero Avishai Cohen in the princely standard of all jazz media, the venerable DownBeat Magazine. Thanks to DB editor Frank Alkyer (who’s been holding down the beat allContinue reading “Two Roses in DownBeat”
Kash’d Out in Anti-Music
Big thanks to one of our favorite reviewers and Kash’d Out fan Kevin W at Anti-Music.com for this thoughtful review of Casual Encounters. We can’t wait for those summer gigs to start so y’all can hear Kash’d Out play these acoustic gems!
“a hell of a good Crescent City parade band”
Yes Morton Shlabotnik, we’d like to think the The Tiptons Sax Quartet & Drums would make a great NOLA band too! Check out the rest of what Morton says in his review of Wabi Sabi in the Shepherd Express.
Twofer Tuesday
OK, it’s Wednesday but how can you have Twofer Wednesday…? It just ain’t right. But whatever you call it, we’re happy that Jazz Chill chose both Kutiman’s Surface Currents and The Tiptons Sax Quartet & Drums’ Wabi Sabi to highlight this week. Great music abounds here at the Dog Ranch!
AAJ: Nominate Avishai for “Aaron Copeland of World Music” award
Big thanks to Dan McClenaghan at All About Jazz for his thoughtful review of Two Roses. We love the idea of an “Aaron Copeland of World Music” award- let’s start one so we can nominate this “unique multicultural listening experience” called Two Roses. Get the scoop about this latest Avishai Cohen release here.