Wild Soundscape

Quiet Heart is an intimate snapshot of Lisa Lynne Franco's solo acoustic harp stylings. This is the way that her harps (Celtic, Paraguayan, and wire string) sound in personal settings when she plays for family and/or friends. This is a warm and lush CD; the music just washes over listeners and covers them with blankets of love and serenity. It is easy to get lost in the atmospheres. Franco's harp sings - it is like listening to a grand chorale by one of the classical masters. Franco's style and technique and the timbre of the harp give the soundscape a sense of multiple layering. There is only one layer of sound - it is Franco on her acoustic harp. This is a must-have for all new age fans.

Mother Road, the new album from acclaimed singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, Grace Potter is an audacious and heart-pounding map of the soul. Composed over a two-year span driving back and forth alone across America during the pandemic, on Mother Road, Grace deconstructs her deepest fears and darkest regrets, charting the fallout with brutal honesty and emotional daring. While grappling with demons can often be a rough ride, Grace navigates it all with imagination and unabashed joy.

Sublime, string-laden soundscaping, the full-length debut for Kranky by Julie Carpenter’s Less Bells, a must for fans of Stars of The Lid, A Winged Victory for the Sullen. She cites certain compositions as being “specifically inspired by August monsoons rolling in over the mountains, others by clear, starry nights.” Utilizing an array of electronic and acoustic instruments, including cello, Optigan, violin, voice, and modular synth, Solifuge conflates not only the solitude and refuge of its title but also intimacy and grandeur, fragility and force, “building from austerity to wild overgrowth”…