a Mark Manthei listening session

Year : 2012
Genre : Massively Acoustic Flexible Rock
Label : Independent
Origin : Canada
Official site : >-here-<

Canadian Mark Manthei is a man on the mission to circulate adept levels of massively acoustic emotional transfer that which sounds to occupy an interesting intersection between Brian Adams and the alternative rock direction of the early '90s - especially Pearl Jam.

The demeanor is morose, yet not bitter like two proper Tom Waits fans are after a bourbon bath, and the realization is exigently natural throughout, with no fear exhibited towards - well - exhibiting . This kind of music simply looks less appealing when deprived of its tints of acoustic roughness, and it is very easy to appreciate how the more "crowded" songs - from a production standpoint - compliment the cumulative, smartly contained mellowness which emerges as a fine consensus between the various instruments. Luckily, the lyrical themes never bow down to an urge to serve out instant mainstream pop appeals, instead, Mark Manthei utilizes his steady mid-range vocal talents and war-thorn-but-ballsy-as-ever acoustic guitars to narrate the kind of personal sentiments that pack sufficient thought and emotion amidst their silhouettes so they are more intriguing to relate towards than the lightweight-rhetorics of dangerless bonfire warfare. Read on to know more about this artist.

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Ivan Mihaljevic & Side Effects - Counterclockwise review

Year : 2013
Genre : Progressive Rock with a Power Metal/Folk Metal tint
Label : Zetafactory
Origin : Croatia
Official site : > - here - <

Ivan Mihaljevic & Side Effects is a Croatian act with a pronounced progressive leaning that finds playful and straightforward efficiency at conveying an Iron Maidenesque modal disposition throughout the richly structured, yet elegantly simplistic tracks the album is a healthy dosage of.

The formation shows considerable and admirable level of ripeness in the compositional department : the songs come dressed up in full sonic musculature and their respective blueprints are very easy to spot and appreciate. It really is boiling down to personal tastes and how much of a prisoner your are of you very own tastes, but, if you are into meticulously realized straight-to-the-pathos progressive metal, then these Croatians doubtless demand your attention and you must give it to them lest you want to be missing out on something finely and soulfully realized. Arm your Bard and read on to know more about this.

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Sonic Nights - Mirrors (ReMastered) review

Year : 2012
Genre : Punk Poprock, Saloon Punk
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

This review starts out with an excerpt taken from the biography of the project.

"Sonic Nights is the new project of brothers Tom and Arthur Lohrmann. The band is a continuation of their year and a half solo project which frequented the DC Metro Area. Sonic Nights connects the best elements of Pop, 70's Rock, Dance, and Alternative music to create a new sound of their own. With a new EP on the way from Producer Sean Small (The Downtown Fiction, Friday Night Boys, Crash Boom Bang), Sonic Nights is ready to level the boom."

Read on to know more about the remastered version of this album.

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Bud Buckley/BudaRest - FOUR: Crying Out Loud review

Year : 2012
Genre : Acoustic Soft Rock / Bonfire
Label : BuBu Records, META-MUSIC
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Bud Buckley and Jax Resto are BudaRest, a multitalented songwriting/performing duo transplanted from New York to southwest Florida. Jax has been a performer all of her life from her days in school to her college years majoring in dance performance at Queens College. This led to her years with Ringling Brothers Circus as a dancer and as an aerialist. Following her circus career, Jax became a wife and mother, a rock drummer, a song writer and a novelist. She is still very active in all of these roles. Her band Kore played at the NY Mamapalooza festival in 2010. A Year later she formed Female Band Invasaion (FBI)

Bud performed all his life in a quite different arena. He was a multi award winning journalist/PR director with the teachers’ union in New York while at the same time teaching. The writing kept him in the eye of teachers across the nation and the teaching put him on stage everyday for a tough and demanding audience. They demanded attention and they demanded he play his guitar and sing while teaching all the elementary school subjects. Bud eventually studied fingerstyle guitar with well known Hudson Valley guitarist, singer songwriter and music educator Helen Avakian. He also studied voice with successful pop star Leslie Ritter of the Amy and Leslie duo. He as recorded four CDs, three produced by award winning songwriter Helen Avakian in Woodstock, NY with well seasoned studio pros like Scott Petito, Deni Bonet, Ross Rice, Dan Hickey and others. He is consistently highly rated by Reverbnation and is their number one singer/songwriter in all of western Florida.

Together, Jax and Bud form the songwriting/recording team of BudaRest, and have discovered that a pace of a song a week is something they can do and have done. At that pace, however, they have to slow down and save time for arranging and recording. A full collection of songs is in the making for release later this year. And probably every year.

Many of these songs will find their way into eBook novels penned by Jax. Music video production is also high on their project schedule.

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Post Trauma - Sleepless review

Year : 2012
Genre : Country Blues Rock Crossover
Label : Independent
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Post Trauma is a country/blues rock crossover audio attraction from the United States, pioneered and lead by project mastermind Billy Ulrich. 2012, November marks the release date of the first massive portion of the double sided (and highly double barreled compatible) monster LP "Sleepless/Dreamless", weighing in with 25 tracks of bourbon-soaked soulseeking. This review is based on said first segment of the soon-complete project, which is doubtless to be regarded as a full scale installation on its own merits already - the complete installment is scheduled to entertain your receivers and receptors in May, 2013. Read on to know more about this ambitious project.

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