Jana Ringwald

Jana Herzen Band: Live: For fans of jazz/folk/pop crossover fans longing for the joyful communion of live performances blocked COVID-19, this audiophile recording of a winning concert by Jana Herzen at Joe's Pub in New York City in October of 2019, offers a soul-refreshing experience. The celebratory performance features Herzen’s magnetic vocal and guitar work in improvisation with an ace jazz band with world-renowned veterans Charnett Moffett (fretless electric bass) and Brian Jackson (piano & keys), and rising artists Irwin Hall (reeds & woodwinds), and Corey Garcia (drums). The presence of an enthusiastic and increasingly enchanted audience helps elevate the performance to higher dimensions and makes this an especially heart-warming listen at this difficult and unprecedented time in history.

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For those of you expecting to hear something along the lines of the delicate sounds of raindrops plopping on leaves, you'll be sorely disappointed. In her first full length CD from Touch Music, Heated, a performance she gave in October 2008 in Tokyo, Norwegian sound artist Jana Winderen creates soundscapes from recordings that she has made with specially designed microphones of rivers in China, far beneath the surface of the North Sea, and crevices that run into the hearts of icebergs. According to the credits on the disc the source material used for this show was gathered with various types of hydrophones and microphones in Greenland, Iceland, and Norway. This is a world of mysterious groans, squeaks, and loud unearthly growls, as Winderen's microphones pull sounds from depths beneath the ice pack in the frozen north. For twenty-six plus minutes she plays back sounds that are so alien to our ears that they could be from another planet. Believe me when I tell you, listening to this disc is unlike anything you're likely to have experienced ever before.