Monday's Long Songs

 Last year Rich Ruth (aka Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist Michael Ruth) released his superb album I Survived, Now It's Over, a superb mixture of neo-jazz fusion and experimental psychedelic music. His influences spread from Santana to John McLaughlin's cosmic attitudes and the sounds Tortoise gave us decades ago.  His ambient influences were best shown on It's The Water. When I thought I Survived... was a studio album and can't work live I was proved wrong by the release of the live album from a concert for the release of I Survived... at his label Three Man Records. If your ears are willing for a new sound, so give him a chance.

Salt Marsh

 

British producer and DJ Rich Trent is back with a new EP and a song that accompanied me during last week. He isn't the next big thing in music but whenever he released something during the last years there was always a song thereby being more than average in this kind of music for me. Salt Marsh is one of those. Starting with the sound of sheep to introduce the rest of the Balearic inspired song with a country-side guitar lick and the song turn into slow stumping relaxed mood. Not to bad to start into another autumn Sunday.  

I Survived, It's Over

Nashville artist Rich Ruth released two years ago Calming Signals one of those albums that I explored months later. I really enjoyed his combination of ambient and guitar sound mixed to a unique kind of relaxed music. Now he announced a new album and released the first track Taken Back. It seems like he is drifting more into psychedelic regions with a fuzzy feadback guitar over an ambient floor. Not the kind of song you say great when you listen to it the first time but a highlight that grows the more you listen to it.