Album Review: Our April Tigers from Michael Whalen
Album: Our April Tigers Artist: Michael Whalen Label: MWM/Spout (Six Degrees Distribution/InGrooves) Website: https://www.michaelwhalen.com When singer-songwriter Yoko Ono made a guest appearance on the 1990's TV sitcom Mad About You, she requested that the documentary filmmaker Paul Buchman, played by Paul Reiser, create a film about the wind. Bandleader Michael Whalen has not made a film about the wind but he has certainly made a recording that from the listener's viewpoint sonically illustrates the movements the wind, putting into a tangible form what the wind communicates from what it sees. Imagine the wind in the role of an observer of the temporal world, and the audience is hearing what this observer sees and communicates using music as its form of expression. Whalen's latest offering Our April Tigers projects such a sonic imagery laden in thought-provoking symphonies that audiences will relate to the sounds of nature from the voices of its eth...