Most songs about longing start with a relationship. This one starts with an office window. The Oslo-based project Grey & Purple Songbook, working under the Grey & Purple Inc. label, wrote "Love...
Music can preserve history in ways that go beyond dates and documented events. Through melody, atmosphere, and storytelling, it can bring distant moments into a more immediate emotional frame. “Fateful Ski Trip”...
At the peak of her buzz in late-1980s Los Angeles, Weslie Brown stepped onto a ship and vanished, leaving it all behind to sail around the world. She had been a headliner...
An album called Bright Colors might sound cheerful, but bassist and composer Trevor Robertson wrote it out of loss. The music emerged from consecutive periods of great loss and growth in his...
Some songs wait a long time for the right moment. Drummer, songwriter, and producer Hans-Peter de Zeeuw, who records as D'Z, wrote "Inner Child" more than thirty years ago and has only...
Acclaimed vocalist and songwriter Judith Owen releases “Inside Out,” a vibrant New Orleans-inspired soul track celebrating self-discovery, hope, and the choice to embrace joy.
Co-written with Grammy Award-winning artist Jamison Ross and featuring...
Opening an archive can mean looking backwards, but “I Guess You Want It This Way” by C’batch makes the past feel surprisingly active. Twenty-six years after its original conception, the song returns...
A planned trip to Paris that ends up in Italy is an annoying thing to have happen. It's also what gave pianist Michael Dulin his latest single. The plan had been dinner,...
