Vertical Songs Of 2016

 

The distillation and clarification of emotion is a very personal, sometimes lonely, yet essential conjunct of health and sanity. We are influenced by strangers as much as by friends in these times of public privacy and vulnerable defensiveness.  

   It's such a pleasure to have one's anger, tenderness, fear or ecstacy mitigated by someone who brings a patina of art and caprice to our hidden feelings. The bright artificers below have helped me rave out of my sometimes silent stoicism into unforeseen astro-affectional dimensions with the quality of their voices, the kindness of their thoughts, and the textures of the sonic fabric that they have loomed to embrace their creations.

                                     
   Just finding a guide can make all the difference.

1.     Lynn Miles    ~   High Heels In The Snow

2.     Ron Hynes    ~   Later That Same Life

3.     Yoser Rodriguez    ~   Pollen    

4.     Julian Taylor     ~     Just A Little Bit

5.     The Memberz    ~   Kings Highway

6.     Sienna Dahlen  ~  Ice Age Paradise

7.     Walk With You   ~    Ringo Starr & Paul McCartney (2010) (It just got to me in 2016)

8.     Annabelle Chvostek       ~      This Night

9.     Chloe Charles     ~       Smiling

10.                          Alessia Cara    ~  Wild Things

11.                          Old Man Luedecke  ~ The Early Days

12.                          Brad Fillatre   ~  Cry Baby Cry

13.                          Ginger Ale & The Monowhales ~ Home          

14.     Jordan Klassen  ~   Baby Moses

15.       Roy Woods  ~ Gwan Big Up Yurself

16.      Donovan Woods   ~  What They Mean

17.      Tony McManus & Beppe Gambetta  ~  Slightly Go Blind

18.      Big Little Lions  ~  Until I Looked Around

19.      The Jessica Stuart Few  ~  Breathing From The Belly

20.      Charlotte Day Wilson (CDW)    ~  After All

21.      Mike McKenna Jr.   ~  Die In The West

22.      Liz Stringer  ~  Keep Keeping On

23.                         Chris Velan  ~ Ever So Slightly

24.                         Danny Michel  ~  Click Click

25. Miranda Sage ~  Fat Cat