Album Review: Forever Stories of: Moving Parties from Peggy Lee and Cole Schmidt
Album: Forever Stories of: Moving Parties Artists: Peggy Lee and Cole Schmidt Label: Earshift Music Website: https://peggyleecoleschmidt.bandcamp.com/album/forever-stories-of-moving-parties Coming together in 2019, the duo of cellist Peggy Lee and guitarist Cole Schmidt are artisans of ambient jazz. Their recording Forever Stories of: Moving Parties is a vision of fluid soundscapes accented by stimulating effects. Hailing from Vancouver, British Columbia, the pair write improvised phrases that open up the listener's cerebral senses, tantalizing the imagination and offering insight into otherworldy emanations. The chord schemes move like ghostly apparitions, embodying phantom-like figments, free floating abstractions rising and withdrawing at random. The notes posture glides upright in luminous hues. Schmidt remarks in a press notice, "The initial concept for the record had to do with hosting a party that included all kinds of people and charact...