Dean Nardi

1 week ago | allaboutjazz.com | Dean Nardi

This interview is with Ma Clément, who is the vocalist half of the Fievel Is Glauque compositional duo, in partnership with Zach Phillips. The tandem typically eschews digital correspondence, opting to meet in either Brussels or New York when the muse is calling. Assuredly, they would appreciate the muse even more if it would purchase air fare. All About Jazz corresponded with Clément in French, so the text is a translation from both the interviewer and her.

1 week ago | allaboutjazz.com | Dean Nardi

Home » Jazz Articles » Interview » Fievel Is Glauque: Zach Phillips Believes Harmony Does N... People, myself included, are mostly going to use music to try to understand themselves, and will often fight tooth and nail to defend whatever construction serves that interest.

1 week ago | americana-uk.com | Dean Nardi

It’s hard to pin down and stamp a genre like a Notary Public would on Chatham Rabbits. The husband-and-wife duo of Austin and Sarah McCombie started out in bluegrass and old-timey music, but they have taken their guitar and banjo and stretched those roots into the garden of Americana. With their fourth album, “Be Real With Me,” they are settling into authenticity in life as in music. There is an apparent dichotomy of personalities on stage.

2 weeks ago | americana-uk.com | Dean Nardi

Mark Morton leans heavily into the southern rock lane. For nearly a quarter century, Mark Morton has been the guitarist and songwriter for the five-time Grammy nominated, platinum-selling heavy metal band Lamb of God. There is more to Morton than metal, however, and it comes in the shape of his second solo release, “Without the Pain,” a follow-up in name if not style of music from “Anesthetic” (WPP Records/Spinefarm, 2019). The anticipation for Morton has been palpable.

2 weeks ago | americana-uk.com | Dean Nardi

This is the 20th video in the revived, re-tooled series of exclusive Americana UK mini-gigs. So far, it’s been a blast and maybe even a little self-serving in that I have the opportunity to see musicians playing their songs live, some of whom I’d likely never have the chance to see perform otherwise. Songwriter, teacher and storyteller Avery Hill is one such artist, coming from Portland, Oregon, which is well over 2500 miles from my home. Hill grew up in a supportive household.