Like Clockwork is an artist called Jesse Owen Astin who co-wrote like “When She
Turns 18” one of Britney Spears favourite tune some time ago, and has written more
songs for other artists and bands on major record companies. Putting this information
to one side lets focus on Jesse’s album These Are All Things from an accomplished
musician, who moved to California to enhance his career in music.
These Are All Things has thirteen tracks and the music ranges from instrumental tune
from Patience Patients, with nice splashes of melody from guitars and keyboards,
as you get to the middle it climates into orchestra anthem levels until the end of
the track. The Dark touches on belief and is rather sombre in tone. The Keys uplifting
song about having keys to ones love interest that opens all access areas. Drive In
is worthy but is more of a bubblegum love song. Oh My God! music is a edge dance
inspired track with clever lyrics about where my life is heading? Don’t worry we
all ask that? No Other Word for Love starts will a record crackling hip-hop style
drum beat, and some strange effects on Jesse’s vocals, until a few minutes into the
song it expands to get a wider dimension, while telling us the truth that love is
love, while You continues the love theme but from the lovers perspective. Jesus Christ
Crashing Star seems to be taken from a lecture with soundscapes to make it more interesting.
Glitch has Arabic scale guitar lead structures, which works well with the muffled
hard hitting drums, and strings that give it that haunting eery sound in a sort of
metal music. When you hear those solemn piano chords you know this is going to be
a sad reflective song which Cross Country is despite strings trying to lighten the
mood. The Map That Brought Us Here has various degrees of volumes, and if you think
the last track is quiet then Be Your Man bursts into energy, dips slightly then that
spurt of energy comes to life, with a message that being apart of someone's life,
with the message swaying somewhat in the song but still on course!
Eddie Brnabic is a guitarist but plays very fine instrumental music with his guitar
work, and also in different music styles backing his axe work. His album titled Beatitude
is certainly a cosmic melodic journey through Eddie’s visionary musical repertoire.
Flood starts the ball rolling and has nice soft rumbles of guitar notes that keep
you entertained. The funky hard edged rock tune Tripping Through Time with fine playing
and the brilliant wah wah phrases that burst the door down. The music for Red Giant
gets your imagination into thinking you better move fast as Eddie’s guitar plays
and the rhythm section timing is, plus that this giant is as big as the music pans-out,
watch-out folks! Gossamer is an acoustic driven track, with electric guitar coming
towards the end of the piece of music. Essentia and On having a Hammond organ on,
are rather short only surpassing a minute, maybe suitable for some film music. Blue
is a loose track with soft and a bit more harder playing styles while the strum of
the rhythm guitar tugs back now and again, from fully exploding into mayhem. Most
High incorporates some southern states elements with organ under-pinning the four
guitar lead work going on. Funkoncious is very infectious tune and has a hard hip
hop style drum beat with distorted guitars, and at times bass riff, with Eddie’s
favourite wah wah thang going on, and to throw in some vocal samples, and some sound-effects
in the background. Smaze, Slice, and Cascade are classical and acoustic in nature,
and then Magallica that is opposite and the heaviest track on the album, with full
blown hard and metal sounds coming from the exquisite musicianship of guitar riffs,
and lead. O.G fuses the hip hop of LA, and lounge lizard coolness of cigar smoke
with melodies of lead guitar. Float is a dreamy and short sunny tune. The Sh*t is
another infectious funky tune, but more stripped down and raw! Beatitude has a classic
California bass sound, with dreamy guitars. A Change is Gonna Come a Sam Cooke cover,
music and singing end this album in fine form!
Resando are an interesting group, as they started sometime ago by vocalist Filippo
de Asmundis, and after some success in his native Italy sharing the stage with Placebo
and Kaftwerk he wanted to expand beyond the confines of the Italian domestic market.
Hence coming to London and having fellow Italian Michele Ceola on Bass, French guitarist
Yann Marechal, and British drummer Thomas Mowforth to complete the lineup.
If you want to know what kind of music they do then there release is to put it into
a nutshell is techno fusion hard rock/metal that sound pretty darn good! There album
Secrets has nine tracks which the majority are four minutes, so you get a fair-share
of well produced techno hard rock!
Changes kicks-off the starting track with a solid tight sound, and you are subjected
to the highs of clear distorted guitars with various tempo changes and synthesizer
sounds, and then heavy synthesizer effects on both the guitars and bass. The End
is about being fearless with nice vocal effects in the intro and before the verses.
Other songs like the slippery intro and sexual references in Snake, and have you
got a Secret? listen and find-out the screaming of sins, the sporadic feel and the
downsides to fame in Evil and those voices inside your head is the theme of Demon,
enter the darker and tense side of Resando. Purple Sky is the fastest song, well
you need to gather speed if you want to fly, and the last track With You and Alive
are more laid-back songs. On all of the tracks there is a lot of music that this
group have spent a considerable amount of time getting it all together. It has to
be said they have a very good producer/mastering wizard as it just adds the icing
on the cake. Cannot see why this band cannot make a big impact across many genres
thus making themselves in the lead for success!
Fancy some good ‘ole country, honkytonk, and outlaw rock music then hard working
artist Pee Wee Moore, is a musician that will get you moving in all the right moves.
The Leaving Side of Gone featured The Awful Dreadful Snakes the backing band and
some good old friends that have also supported Pee Wee Moore out on the road. Currently
Pee Wee Moore is going back out on the road and is doing eighty shows across the
United States!
When listening to songs like Truck Driving Song you get the sense of what it’s like
driving those big American truck on the freeways, the music has the classic swing
brush drum stick strokes. Aint Got Nothing is a song of pity and destitution and
to top it off even the woman has ditched him if his situation wasn’t bad enough!
This Old House from the first strum of the guitar sounds a nice piece of music, with
the sentiments of one’s house not feeling like it had before. Never knew you could
make beer out of corn until I listened to Leavin With The Band. In Whiskey Fuels
the Flame you can see why women can make a man depressed. If you want to know what
outlaw music is then listen to Running With The Devil, you’ll soon get goose bumps
as the music get’s harder and louder that has a strong acoustic guitar riff keeping
things in check. Walk With Me Sweet Jesus ends the album but there are many other
songs on this album. Pee Wee Moore is something fresh and if you think country music
is something not for you, then like me I’m converted on this genre, hats off to Pee
Wee Moore!
