GoGo Penguin

These days, I listen to GoGo Penguin as much if not more than any other group. Piano, acoustic bass and drums. Soaring musical ideas. 

I don't know what the Jazz snobs would think of them .... if they would think their music repetitive and simplistic. I think they are creative, innovative, melodic ..... Their music generates visual images of places I've never known.

A short playlist in case you feel the urge to check them out .... and LISTEN:

• Raven .... I see a raven soaring through a dark sky approaching an incoming storm.
• Wave Decay
• You're Stronger Than You Think
• Window
• Everything Is Going to Be OK
• Parasite
• Ascent
• Last Words .... I love this title for a song.
• Saturnine
• Kamaloka

I've discovered several other bands and new sounds because of their music. Mammal Hands, Portico Quartet, Robohands, Ghost Funk Orchestra, Phi-Psonics, Vega Trails .... all part of my searching for alternative jazz sounds.

Mandolin Orange

While journaling this evening, heard the song 'A Thousand Amen' by Mandolin Orange and had to listen again .... and again .... and again. And after all that, one or two more times. A lonesome melody played on guitar and fiddle with two voices.

Funny how sometimes the perfect music for a moment and the mood just arrives. Almost like it was waiting for years to be heard by this set of ears. 

"Water froze our bones

You'd swear it froze our minds

To some it's all they'd known

Not raised the quiten kind."