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NPR Music calls her “soft as an old shawl.” Sub-Pop Records labels her country-noir, indie ling coined in the attempt to disassociate the term country from connotations of Toby Keith, Martina McBride and Dodge Ram advertisements.  Sera Cahoone\’s graceful lo-fi alternative-country canters half-way back to the classic 70’s folk movement with a soft firm drum and a strong alto and wedges the rest of her music in comfy blue-grass denim. “I got my own style! BAM!” she says, and then acknowledges her favorite decade. Read more

 
Samuel Dickison, a sandy-haired, white-browed son of the Palouse and Moscow, has recently stepped out of the lentil fields with a clean-cut guitar and a well-built voice as one of the most promising nuggets of talent that that this Heart of the Arts has to offer. Read more

The sticks hit the timpani with a simple tap to start a song, beat beat beat.  You can almost see a smirk form in the corner of the drummer’s mouth as the beat intensifies and an electronica symphony elides into the beat.  The start of an Alexis Gideon piece of schizo-rap is like catching the moment when Fred Astaire simultaneously alights onto a set and a song and discovers Read more

In Javier Suarez, the clean-cut upbeat Paul McCartney of Ed Sullivan and the First American Tour rides again. Tyler Armour has a darker turn of mind.  He appreciates paradox and coincidence, he reads Vonnegut and Kafka, he plays a dark-skinned and hypnotic guitar.  True to stereotype, Armour is bearded.  I didn’t ask about chest hair.  Tim Meinig wears a black baseball cap; he has a golden voice, when he will use it.  In former days, Meinig drummed for Band of Horses; these days, he is depressed by his job as a local broadcaster feeding negative economic predictions and sordid crimes to the public on behalf of the Pullman NPR.  Ted Powers has the heart – and the hair – of a lion, a brilliant lion.  He beats with the panache of a Ringo Starr, he holds the keys to the Wazoo radio station.  These artists have divergent Read more

Last week I was lost, flipping stations, aimless, stumbling in a half-lit room searching for a sound with some soul. The answer came to me accidentally. The world clicked into place once more at a flash of greased lightning, coming from none other than Moscow’s very own Bart and the Budwiggers laying out the blues before Low Red Land at the Nuart.

Deep waters run curiously serene. Consider the multiple folded, crumpled, inter-woven Read more

Like every other person in the audience at Laura Gibson’s show last week, I was enraptured by her stunning performance. This is art, this is magic, I knew. Laura herself is a work of art, but, the rest of the band (drummer Micah Rabwin and electric organist Sean Ogilvie) were equally – uniquely – mesmerizing. Rabwin and Ogilvie share their own band, Musee Mecanique, pictured left. Musee is a collective dedicated to producing pure voodoo. Prepare to fall under their spell.

Sean Ogilvie’s voice is as soft and sleepy as Read more

The artistic travels of Motorbikes, according to Nicholas Wilbur, was possibly inspired by pizza. Wilbur, close friend and associate of Paul Adam Benson, the artist behind the music of Motorbikes, shared the history with me. Benson and Wilbur were best buds growing up in Mountain Home, Arkansas, a ramshackle little town in the Ozarks. After high school and rolling through a few ups and downs, their plan originally was to move to Springfield, MO, get a house, and build a brick oven.Wilbur explained that, “when it was snowing outside, we could go outside and make pizzas in our brick oven. Then we rented a house, and it wasn’t allowed to have a brick oven.

Plan Two seems to be working out just dandy. Benson, now migrated to Anacortes, WA, Read more

Ashley Eriksson, musician and songstress of Lake the Band, balanced an instrument that looked like a flexible candelabra during a couple of songs at their recent show at the Fontee Fest in Anacortez, WA.  “I thought it was this weird, random sculpture that was in the back of this really creepy old house that I lived at,” she explained, but, being the artist that she is, Ashley ignored the ghosts and saw the potential for musicality.  Now, the Garden Bells are a definitive piece of Lake’s extra-ordinary charm. As Ashley said, “We like to be eclectic, we like to connect with people.”      

The seven members of Lake share a connection that spreads through the audience.  Each member is a unique artist on his own right.  Read more

Billy Schuh shared with me that his breakfast cereal of choice would be anything Kashi.  “Really good stuff and apparently good for you,” he expounds.  Back atcha, man.  Schuh’s pop-folk project, the Foundry Field Recordings, makes fine-boned melodies which he describes as “rooted in the organic nature of the song.” 

Schuh, guitar, vocals, songsmith, and founder of The Foundry, tells me that he began FFR “to find sustainability and balance in my life with music.  What a new age answer,” he goes on, and laughs: “Haha, but it is true.”  This blend of honesty and irony is one of his leading characteristics and splattered all over his music.  “Lyrically speaking I paint strokes with dark topics and match them with upbeat pop tempos.  I like the juxtaposition,” Schuh explains, “I would like to think that we are approaching music the right way, substance over style.”  

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Johanna Kunin

Piano-lovers, music-lovers, dream-lovers, and the rest of you,  lovers, of Moscow, come be transported to Cascade rainforests and other lands far, far away by the luxuriant piano reflections of Johanna Kunin. Johanna’s piano, laced with flute, percussion, vibraphone, inspiration, and the serenity of her own voice, frequently illumines the radio-waves of Seattle. Other times, Johanna electro-funks keyboard with the band Velella Velella, or opens for her friend Karl Blau.
Johanna studied the traditional classical/jazzical piano course during her childhood in Minneapolis. It was a good diving board to launch her into her own genre.  Besides her extensive resume as composer and performer, you can be impressed by the fact that Johanna recently both designed and bound a volume of her compositions in an Etsy masterpiece for you to enjoy at home on your own personal piano. Now that her masterpiece book is finished, Johanna often stirs it up with a self-professedly “mustachio’d” 10-piece orchestra.
8:00 p.m., March 06, 2009 (that’s a Friday), Johanna performs with the Foundry Field Recordings at The American Legion Cabin (317 S. Howard Street, Moscow ID 83843).  Soar to new heights; dream new dreams.

Molly is a freelance journalist and a senior at New St. Andrew’s College with a special interest in the Cascades, postcards, and goldfish.  She is an intern at The Loop 21 and keeps the blog A New Amsterdam.

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