Month: October 2017
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Friend of HORIZON RECORDS and Newgrass vocalist extraordinaire JOHN COWAN returns to Asheville on SUNDAY, DEC. 10th, with Darin & Brooke Aldridge!
With his distinctive, rock-tinged tenor vocal and heart-thumping electric bass, John Cowan, along with fellow New Grass Revival band mates Sam Bush, Courtney Johnson, and Curtis Burch, and later Bela Fleck and Pat Flynn, introduced a new generation of music fans to an explosive, experimental and ultimately, eponymous brand of bluegrass.
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What do you get when you combine a master of the oud, ANOUAR BRAHEM, with three giants of jazz improvisation? A must-hear collection of unpredictable modal bliss called BLUE MAQAMS.
The Maqams of the title refers to the Arabic modal music system, rendered kind of blue by the jazz players. For Anouar Brahem and renowned bassist Dave Holland the album marks a reunion: they first collaborated 20 years ago on the very widely-acclaimed Thimar album. Brahem meets Jack DeJohnette for the first time here,
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NEW RELEASES, 10/27: PETER CASE, JULIEN BAKER, JOE HENRY, BOOTSY COLLINS, NORAH JONES, THEORY OF A DEADMAN & more!
The 22-year-old songwriter Julien Baker sees this not so much as an impossibility as a challenge to reconcile, daring her to make music in which she turns herself inside out. Her songs are sparse, internally focused, and radically intimate. “I know that you don’t understand, ’cause you don’t believe what you don’t see,” she sings…
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NEW RELEASES, 10/20: DESTROYER, BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN, BRAND NEW, WILLIE NELSON, MARGO PRICE & more!
For starters, the entire set comprises originals. And there are no guest musicians — only two banjos, Washburn’s voice, and percussion sounds (feet tapping in the floor or a board). Everything that made the record had to be able to be reproduced in a live setting. It features the pair performing on seven different banjos,…
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FALL FOR GREENVILLE 2017 is underway, and we’re so pumped about this year’s live music schedule that we’ve got two in-store preview-shows from STOP LIGHT OBSERVATIONS & AJ GHENT!
THIS JUST IN: We’ve just confirmed two Fall-For-Greenville-preview shows at Horizon Records in The Bohemian Cafe! We’ll have AJ GHENT in the Cafe on Friday, Oct. 13th at 5pm, before his 8:30 show on the FURMAN UNIVERSITY JAZZ & BLUES STAGE, then we’re happy to welcome Charleston’s STOP LIGHT OBSERVATIONS on Saturday the 14th at…
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HORIZON mourns the untimely loss of TOM PETTY in the midst of an already sad week. But his music lives on, through his amazing records.
He took a Dylan-esque, Byrds-type rock & roll sound, tinged more than a little by his Florida Southern roots and the greatest American rock band EVER, and backed all of it up with an underlying uncompromising instinct & integrity in the art. Just Google the story of his fight with his record label about not…
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NEW RELEASES, 10/13: BECK, ROBERT PLANT, NINE INCH NAILS, ST. VINCENT, THE BARR BROTHERS, a KURT VILE/COURTNEY BARNETT collaboration and more!
On his new album, “Colors,” Beck delivers a perfect pop statement. This is by far his most conventionally mainstream album to date, working with the modern-pop template and elevating it in the process. Singles “Dreams,” ”Wow” and “Up All Night” have all been floating around a while now, so this shift should not come as…
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ECM Records has a stunning new series of releases that should have every jazz, classical and avant-garde music fan (including Mr. Gene) excited!
The Giovanni Guidi Trio plays jazz of uncommon originality and reflective depth. On their second ECM album, Italian pianist Guidi, US bassist Morgan, and Portuguese drummer Lobo continue the work begun on the 2011 recording City of Broken Dreams, with pensive, abstract ballads which shimmer with inner tension. Each of the players has a strong…
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Dan Bejar returns with DESTROYER’s followup to “Poison Season”; it’s a collection of lush, multi-layered pop called “ken” that recalls 2011’s breakthrough “Kaputt.”
Of his 12th studio album and its enigmatic title, Destroyer’s Dan Bejar offers the following: “Sometime last year, I discovered that the original name for “The Wild Ones” (one of the great English-language ballads of the last 100 years or so) was “Ken.” I had an epiphany, I was physically struck by this information. In…
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NEW RELEASES, 10/6: JEFF BECK, JD MCPHERSON, THE CHURCH, DRIVIN’ N’ CRYIN’, BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, LIAM GALLAGHER & more!
JD McPherson writes and performs songs steeped in the sounds of classic rock and roll, updated with thrilling sonic details that place his third album, “Undivided Heart & Soul,” firmly in the now. While musicians can carry virtually whole orchestras and thousands of sound effects in pocket-sized digital devices, bricks and mortar can still make…