April Verch - Bright Like GoldApril Verch has never sounded more comfortable in her skin than she does now, in the second decade of her career as an internationally touring Canadian fiddler, step dancer and singer songwriter. Her ninth album, "Bright Like Gold", captures a woman who's fleshed out her identity and is in full command of her gifts, a woman who's grown from a prodigy into an enduring artist one of music's most unforgiving public transitions with grace and grit to

Alan Clark is one of Rock music's rarities: a keyboard player who makes classical piano work in the rock environment

as she delivers material across the jazz

I drove him out of here

the two musicians aimed to extend the timespan of their repertoire by confronting the music of Josquin Desprez - the great Franco-Flemish composer who bridged the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance - with music by four Spanish composers of our time

and hold onto the hope that it'll keep happening that way for the rest of my life

Vlautin's narrative is accompanied by Paul Brainard's (Richmond Fontaine) pedal steel and Vlautin's acoustic guitar

and electro-pop pioneer

has maintained a practically uninterrupted outstanding tradition of music

so bluesy and down to earth

This full-length is the remaining proof of Fulu Mziki at their most vital and most complete - it won't be repeated - and can never be recreated

plus a duet performance with Ginny Wright released on the Fabor label

This is intended to clarify the dialogical principle that usually characterizes the celebration of the mass