With her third full-length album, "Let the Waves Come in Threes," Dagmar has developed an elegance and style that is warm and accessible, yet uniquely her own. Not too many artists write music that fits into the underground club and the concert hall, or that is just as inspirational to the jazz performer as the gospel choir. The fact that her sound can be this diverse and draw from so many different places, but still be accessible and enjoyable by a wide spectrum of music fans is a testament to her talent and development as a performer.
The language of music is one which can travel across the vast boundaries of the world, taking on a new shape with each region it crosses. Musician James Dalton has taken this journey with his songs, cultivating his own musical identity at each stop.
Who dares to paint a musical picture with a non-traditional landscape in an era where safe, cliché sounds dominate the air waves? April Smith does. Smith's band, the Great Picture Show, travels across the century to help construct her songs, musing from traditional blues standards of yesterday, to the sharp, distorted guitars of today's rawer bands, like Radiohead. This versatility lets the Brooklyn, NY-based singer/songwriter express a wide range of emotions from joyous to melancholy, sometimes in the same four bars of music.
It seems that as Mimi Cross enters a new phase in her life, she has found new sources of inspiration. The birth of her son Charles has caused Cross to delve into a new style, while still experimenting with those from which she has drawn in the past, such as electronic music.
