"The Powers/Rolin Duo messes with expectations in most delightful ways. Their instrumentation—hammered dulcimer and 12-string acoustic guitar—looks like something you’d see on a shady stage at a summertime art show or a farmers’ market. But this is the 21st century, and they’ve got some effects boxes. When the sounds on the Powers/Rolin Duo’s first proper LP hit your ears, what you hear is a swarm of string overtones that might bring to mind Laraaji/Eno’s ambient 1980 collaboration Day Of Radiance. In either case, the possibility of being ignored is built right in.
Matthew Rolin
Jen Powers, Matthew Rolin |
“We are living in something of a golden age of fingerstyle guitarists. This glut can be both a blessing and a curse, as it becomes increasingly difficult for even the most discerning of fans to distinguish one player from the next, however capable these players might be. Matthew Rolin |
Album writing and performance credits: Matthew J. Rolin - Guitars, Appalachian Dulcimer, Keys, Auxiliary Instrumentation Patrick Shiroishi - Saxophone on "Hallucinations" Jen Powers - Bowed Dulcimer on "When I Could See" Recorded and mixed by Matthew J. Rolin Mastered by Brian Sulpizio Art and layout by Plastic Crimewave Feeding Tube Records (FTR586) released on 4/30/21 |