Califone - RoomsoundCalifone's debut album 'Roomsound' Originally self released in April of 2001. 'Roomsound' covers the same rustic, slightly ramshackle back forty that Tim Rutili has been ploughing through since his previous band Red Red Meat. Only this time the tilled bedrock unveils the most vividly colored, luring crop of songs Rutili has ever harvested. The sleepy, country blues picking and autumnal backwoods melodies are accented with striking splashes of

Though more associated with the bar band and punk end of music

the two women share an enigmatic

The fact is that Flotsam And Jetsam have settled gracefully into the next era of their evolution

"Hellfire"

At the height of his career as a viola da gamba player

the Piano Trio expands his global reach

are illustrated with examples of ragtime sheet music and include a 1961 article from the St

Irmgard Seefried

Mykola Vililnsky

Kennedy Blaine

the structure of the music is always clear and intuitively understood

The title song is one of the high points of the album