BLACK DOG GROOVE SOCIETY - Fetch the Stick LP Black Metal Distilling his influences down to

Distilling his influences down to a sparse palette of manipulated folk

Portuguese composer and pianist Tiago Sousa follows his 2011 album Walden Pond’s Monk with his first solo piano record: Samsara

What's most amazing to me in the present day is how well both of these albums held up

following a sketched skeleton to where something happened

Mixed by Kurt Ballou

BLACK DOG GROOVE SOCIETY - Fetch the Stick LP Black Metal Distilling his influences down toLong term musical partners, guitarist Nils Pollheide and saxophonist Katharina Maschmeyer present a playful, groove laden album under the name Black Dog Groove Society, backed by organist Dirk Schaadtand percussionist Marcus Mller. Fetch The Stick is an infectious record whose compositions are complex but stop short of being impenetrable, in the vein of classic Blue Note LPs.