“Keith Miles’ songs emerge from a place where bluegrass, country, the Grateful Dead, and Jack Kerouac converge.”
– David Kleiner
Minor 7th Magazine
Nice shout out from Rootstime.be
Thanks to the great folks at Rootstime for the shout out on the latest Hemifran release, “The Golden Demon.”
Jack Sundrud and I were honored to be asked to contribute to this project, and to get special recognition from Rootstime is icing on the cake.
You can find the review here (in Dutch).
The translate.google.com version:
Our music Swedish friend and colleague Peter Holmstedt with ‘Hemifran’ very active as a distributor and promoter of an impressive array of artists all over the world put their trust in his hands and put in his work. Additionally, he brings collected with the regularity of a clock work of the artists who work with him, getting around a specific theme.
A double album with songs about chaos and change that entitled “New Songs About The Golden Demon Chaos And Transition” now appears. The two CDs are 25 songs in one way or another deal with this theme. Greg Copeland kicks offs with the album title track “Golden Demon”, an acoustic ballad which Carla Kihlstedt on violin accompanies and sings harmony vocals.
Other well-known names on both albums are Sid Griffin, “Hat Check Girl ‘, the country and Americana Formation’ The Good Intentions” from England, singer-songwriter Michael Weston King and the Swedish artist Mikael Persson. The artists who contributed come from so very different worlds of pop, rock, blues, country, jazz and folk music. Thus brings folk singer Jenai Huff a very nice song with the piano ballad “Just Like Me” (see video) and we also get warm feelings when listening to the folk-rock song “Laurel Canyon” by Stephen David Austin and catchy uptempo song “Underneath The Satellite Sky “Jeff Larson.
Another notable track is the collaboration between singer-songwriter Doug Ingoldsby and Eugene Ruffolo and Kenny Loggins for harmony vocals to make the song “Brothers” and Michael Weston King’s protest song “I Did not Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier” also know to provide a moment of reflection on the madness of war.
The number that we believe best represents the theme of this compilation is able to display it beautifully sung song “Until It All Makes Sense Again” by Keith Miles. The unique collaboration between the Polish superstar Mietek Szczesniak and Wendy Waldman for symphonic rock song “Signs” deserves some extra attention in this review, as was the delicious wegkabbelende “Out Of My Element” Kenny White.
But in conclusion we can perhaps best to point out that this double thanks Hemifran you can win yourself (see below) and you still can move them if you should not apply. At the lucky winners after the purchase The 25 songs on this CD, we can guarantee all hours of listening pleasure in each case.
Newest release from Sweden
I can’t tell you how excited I am to have been included in the latest offering by Hemifran, called “The Golden Demon.” Teaming up once again with Jack Sundrud, we offered up our take on the theme with a song called, “Until It All Makes Sense Again.”
“The Golden Demon” should be available on Spotify to all listeners.
From Peter’s website:
”How often haven’t you heard somebody say, ’It’s a small world’? One may refer to a case of coincidence where two friends run into each other in an unlikely place. One may also refer to the way we communicate these days. Words, pictures and music run back and forth between continents in no time at all. Distance is not an obstacle anymore. It may even function as a creative juice of sorts. The album you are about to hear is a good example of just that. It is a compilation, but surprisingly often, the contributions sound like extracts from a discussion between people gathered around one big dining table.
The subject of the evening is the current sense of chaos and transition, experienced in places where stability was supposed to last until the very end.
’Isn’t that too heavy a topic for such an occasion?’ you might say. Don’t worry. It’s actually the other way around. Even the title, ’The Golden Demon’, could easily be a suitable name of a story that one of the guests might tell after a good meal and a couple of drinks, just after twilight. It’s entertainment with a twist.
So now, dear listeners, I invite you to enter a universal living room, big enough to stretch over at least two continents, small enough for the atmosphere and intimacy to stay fully intact. Be our guest. Sit yourself down and make yourself ’at home’. The show has just begun…..” ~ Citizen K
CD 1 :
- 01. GREG COPELAND – GOLDEN DEMON
- 02. JULIE CHRISTENSEN – TEN PEOPLE
- 03. STEVE NOONAN – ANOTHER GOOD MAN DOWN
- 04. LUISA JORDAN-KILLORAN – THE ROOM OF THE DEMON
- 05. SID GRIFFIN – RIGHT ‘ROUND THE BEND
- 06. JENAI HUFF – JUST LIKE ME
- 07. DOUG INGOLDSBY W/EUGENE RUFFALO – US & THEM
- 08. HAT CHECK GIRL – JESSE & FRANK
- 09. KENNY WHITE – LETTER FROM X-RAY
- 10. STEPHEN DAVID AUSTIN – LAUREL CANYON
- 11. JEFF LARSON – SATELLITE SKY
- 12. INGRID SERBAN W/FOREST SUN – SOMEDAY
- 13. THE GOOD INTENTIONS – WOODY GUTHRIE’S RULIN’S
CD 2 :
- 01. LUISA JORDAN-KILLORAN – DEMON REVISITED
- 02. DOUG INGOLDSBY W/KENNY LOGGINS – BROTHERS
- 03. ALLAN THOMAS – HOW LONG CAN THIS GO ON?
- 04. MICHAEL WESTON KING – I DIDN’T RAISE MY BOY TO BE A SOLDIER
- 05. KEITH MILES W/JACK SUNDRUD – UNTIL IT ALL MAKE SENSE AGAIN
- 06. BOB CHEEVERS – OCCUPYING WALL STREET
- 07. MICHAEL WARD W/JOE SATRIANI – DONKEY ISLAND
- 08. MIETEK W/WENDY WALDMAN – SIGNS
- 09. KENNY WHITE – OUT OF MY ELEMENT
- 10. JANNI LITTLEPAGE – WINDS OF CHANGE
- 11. MIKAEL PERSSON – WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
- 12. SKY COUNTRY – ROGERSON NOBLE
New song headed off to Sweden
Jack and I jut finished a new song, “Something Bigger Than This,” for inclusion on the new compilation album from Hemifran. I was honored to be asked again by my good friend, Peter Holmstedt, to contribute to the new album, set for release this summer. See all the cool things Peter is up to at his web site here:
Also new is the latest release from my friends, Little Green. I contributed some vocals to one of the songs on the album, “Innocent Again.” Learn more about Little Green and watch for the release of the album on iTunes. Little Green web site here:
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