Found Sounds

A toast to the end of 2023 and I’m happy to turn the page.  Fourteen Things I Was Happy to Hear, This Year, On a Seshjawn I ran up to Princeton for one last shop of 2023. But it also was a meeting with an old & best, Jeff Schwachter, for the first time at… Continue reading Fourteen Things I’m Happy to Hear, This Year, On a Seshjawn

Playlist Nawi - Some Pogues. Apropos and helpful. The Pogues, for me, growing up in Boston, trended towards an audience of kids I wasn’t connected with, but I appreciated their fervor for the music and wondered often about its marriage between Punk and Folk musics. This song in particular reaches me deeply and it does… Continue reading Seshjawn Notes 12/17/23

Playlist Travis - “I forgot about this one Flamenco singer.” Don’t we all run into that problem now and then? This is pretty intense and I love how simple the rhythm can be in Flamenco. It is incredibly important and really drives the intensity but it is usually with claps, foot stomps and castanets. Instruments… Continue reading Seshjawn Notes 12/3/23

Playlist Bart - David Bowie - “Sweet Thing” - A really slow live version. I’m guessing it is a late 70’s Rykodisc extra track. Bowie’s voice is so raw and there is a lot of tension in the slow pace. The baritone is really growling and the guitar sound is all edge. Sanborn too, at… Continue reading Seshjawn Notes 11/19/23

Playlist Travis - - Travis is going in a rock direction that one of my 3 possibilities for tonight also leans. Contrast or corroborate? He also said I’d know the voice. It sounds familiar but nothing I can nail down. It’s bringing a 70’s, slightly Southern, grooving Rock feel. Honky Tonk piano, screaming guitars and… Continue reading Seshjawn Notes 11/5/23