Album Review: “The Ages” – Richard Davies. Words: Sammy Stein.

The Ages | Richard Davies (bandcamp.com) Richard Davies has followed up ‘A Pagan Landscape’ and ‘Travel Without Movement‘ with another interesting and thematic release with ‘The Ages.’ Exploring combinations of sounds, Davies extends his curiosity through a series of tracks, creating a mesmeric and at times, thoroughly absorbing album. The tracks are titled simple RD …

Album Review: “Diary Of An Artist In Love” – The Muse Frequency. Words: Sammy Stein.

‘Diary of an Artist in Love’ The Muse Frequency is an artist, lyricist, and producer working with musicians around the world to create profoundly moving spoken word tracks that fall within the New Age and meditation music genres as well as lyrics for musical productions. TMF has also written and directed for theatre, audio stories, and …

Blog interview: Becky Crosby

Hi Becky! How are you?  I’m good! It’s been a couple of busy weeks, but I’ve been having a fun time with my single release, birthday show and the warm weather really kicking in! Congratulations on the release of “Love Like Medicine.” How does it feel?  Thank you! It feels great to be able to …

Single Review: “In My Veins” – Carol Jarvis

This track is nothing short of a banger. It starts off as an EDM track, quite slow, with atmospheric sounds…. Then at 0:49 the trombone played so beautifully comes in… This melody has been stuck in my head since I heard it! At 1:23 the solo really kicks in, ushering a funky bass line as …

Single Review: “Ready” – Cory Wong and Ben Rector

This track screams summer soul!  Wow!  From the top, guitar virtuoso Cory Wong opens fire with muted guitar playing 16ths although I get the feeling that may be delays, and the guitar sound over that comes in over the top playing the main riff.. I can’t even get my head around it.. it’s clean, it’s …

Blog interview: Kim Cameron

Hello Kim, how are you? I am feeling pretty great this summer. Congratulations on the release of “Influencers.” How does it feel? Thankful that it is released.  I had forgotten how much work it was to put together an entire album. It’s a 12-track project, featuring collaborators from around the world. What was the story …

Album Review: “Most Definitely” – Devin Gray. Words: Sammy Stein.

At Platinum Mind we reviewed Devin Gray’s single, ’Pull to Refresh’ when the album was a future vision. Now that vision is here and out on Rataplan Records on 9th June. Firstly, let’s talk about value – twenty-three tracks, twenty-one of them short but all gloriously different. Secondly, let’s talk drums – Devin has amazing …

Album Review: “It’s All We Have” – Diana Torti and Sabino de Bari. Words: Sammy Stein.

Diana Torti is a singer, improviser, and composer based in London. She has performed in jazz clubs, theatres, and international festivals. Her CD “On A Cloud” (2019, SLAM Productions) was nominated among the best jazz vocal releases of 2019 by The New York City Jazz Record. Torti is also a lecturer and researcher and has …