Album Review: Something Here Inside from Benji Kaplan
Album: Something Here Inside Artist: Benji Kaplan Label: Wise Cat Records Website: https://www.benjikaplan.com/home A blending of soulful flamenco, ambient jazz, balmy meditations, and breezy torchlight musings, guitarist Benji Kaplan performs solo on his latest release Something Here Inside . Inspired to be a painter by his mother, Kaplan applied his skills using the hues of the rainbow spectrum to the sounds of the music spectrum. The pastoral textures, twirling patterns, and tranquil moods he projects convey a message to listeners that he shares without inhibition. Using a swing jazz palette fringed in swathes of Latin accents on "Anything Goes," Kaplan brings a freshness to Cole Porter's track, viewing the classic melody with a contemporary set of eyes. The gliding strokes of his fingers have a lulling effect on listeners along "Easy To Love" and rather uniquely, he pervades a soothing, Hawaiian-like caress along "But Not For Me." The blue