»Sounds are stretchy!«
Martin Longley squirts ink on music, calibrating its nuisance for too long (over three decades), and is now resting his spent loins amidst the pages of The Brooklyn Rail (New York City), the All About Jazz website (from Philly, where non-hepcat sounds are ever-welcome), plus the luxuriously printed We Jazz magazine (Helsinki). He is eternally on the road, never satisfied with stasis, unless it happens during sonics. He will give up, one day...
»Music has been a healing balm for me.«
John William Grant is an American singer, musician, and songwriter holding both American and Icelandic citizenship. He first came to prominence as a co-founder, lead vocalist, pianist, and primary songwriter of the alternative rock band The Czars. After releasing six albums between 1994 and 2006, the band disbanded, and Grant withdrew from music for four years before embarking on a solo career.
He returned in April 2010 with a critically acclaimed debut album recorded in collaboration with Midlake. Queen of Denmark was named Album of the Year 2010 by Mojo magazine and was also selected as one of the ten best albums of 2010 by The Guardian’s music critics and writers.