Tag Archives: Soft/Quiet

R&B multi-instrumentalist Truck Hunt, given birth to and raised in Dayton, Ohio, was raised surrounded by the pimp way of living of his dad. A soundtrack of traditional soul and modern R&B was his backdrop and Hunt immersed himself within the shades and moods of everything. A move through the …

Citing the inspiration from the English countryside, old line of business systems, the sky, ancient landscapes, disused World Battle II airfields as well as the artwork from 60s and 70s English Ladybird books, UK artist Antony Harding aka July Skies forms paeans to parrots (‘Swallows And Swifts’), dilapidated sites of …

With her pre-bop piano style and cool but sensual singing, Diana Krall took the jazz world by storm in the late ’90s. With the change of the hundred years she was strongly established among the biggest retailers in jazz. Her 1996 recording, All for you personally, was a Nat Ruler …

Lúcio Alves was an excellent interpreter of Brazilian music. Tom Jobim stated he’s “a formidable vocalist, he deserved the best well-known acclamation, but paid the price tag on being an musician before his period.” João Gilberto was a announced enthusiast of his performing interpretation and his vocal and harmonic preparations …

Shaped in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1993, Low had been possibly the slowest from the so-called “slowcore” rings — delicate, austere, and hypnotic, the trio’s music rarely increased over a whisper, divining its dramatic tension within the unsettling open up spaces developed by the lack of sound. Primarily composed of the …

An excellent and criminally unsung origins reggae singer with a higher, clear tenor tone of voice much like Horace Andy’s, Wayne Jarrett recorded his essential songs in the past due ’70s and early ’80s, like the vintage Bunny Lee-produced “Satta Dread.” Jarrett also caused Jamaican suppliers Glen Brownish (trimming “Youthman,” …

Among the last & most popular in an extended type of traditional man vocalists who also emerged prior to the rock-dominated 1960s, Johnny Mathis concentrated on intimate readings of jazz and pop requirements for the ever-shrinking adult modern audience from the ’60s and ’70s. Though he debuted having a flurry …

Guitarist Johnny Smith will be best remembered for his 1952 strike saving of “Moonlight in Vermont,” a mellow ballad that also features Stan Getz. Smith, whose chordal-oriented design was self-taught, originally performed trumpet, violin, and viola before switching to electric guitar. A studio room musician from 1947 on, Smith’s amazing …

Songwriter, vocalist, and maker Leon Ware was among the less-recognized items from the Motown Information music factory from the 1960s and ’70s, primarily because he tended to operate behind the moments. His signature design was an extremely romantic method of spirit music that led to many strike information, notably “I …

After making his introduction like a sensitive, acoustic-styled songwriter on 2001’s Space for Squares, John Mayer continuously widened his approach on the subsequent years, encompassing from blues-rock to adult contemporary along the way. Arriving through the tail-end of teenager pop’s heyday, he crafted pop music for a far more discerning …