With “Island Lantern Festival”, Tony Frissore manages to soundtrack a specific kind of mental vacation I didn’t realize I was overdue for taking. Ostensibly an instrumental nod to the Lunar New Year and the hopefulness of renewal, this piece operates less like a celebration and more like a gentle exhalation. https://open.spotify.com/album/3n43BcxSnavYKC0wt28GNu?si=E_50eQ_lQomyHT1RsD2Jrg It starts wet with the actual crash of ocean waves before slowly drifting inland. I...

American artist, guitarist, and songwriter Gf Morgan from New Hope, who has been in the music industry for four decades, has outdone himself with the release of an album, "Magenta," that combines the old enchantment of Celtic and Folk music with a modern sound. A bright spot in Morgan's career is his series of duets with the music greats, and most recently, his new album...