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Album:  Americana Artists:  Grégoire Maret, Romain Collin, and Bill Frisell Label:  ACT Music Websites: https://www.billfrisell.com https://www.romaincollin.com https://www.gregoiremaret.com A blend of country folk, ambient jazz, indie rock, and acoustic pop, the trio of Grégoire Maret on harmonica, Romain Collin on piano, and Bill Frisell on guitar and banjo come together on Americana from ACT Music label.  The trio's collection of cover tunes permeates healing attributes as the music feels like a soothing balm on the listener's senses.  Track after track shepherds soulful passages from the trio, arranging them into a cavalcade of blissful soundscapes.  The natural flow of the music keeps the chord progressions advancing, producing fluxing movements that harvest elegant sprigs along the coasting swells. The trio's rendition of Bon Iver's serenely lilting "Stacks" features the soothing verses of Maret's harmonica trussed in Frisell's comfy guitar ...

Album:  Tiny Lights Artist:  Romain Collin Label:  XM Records Website:  www.romaincollin.com Keyboardist Romain Collin produces cinematic-size soundscapes on his latest release Tiny Lights from XM Records.  Track after track demonstrates his skills as a master creator and artistic manipulator of soundwaves.  Fusing power rock style guitar riffs with expressive jazz piano improvisations and electro-pop laden soundscapes, Collin's synthesis of diverse types of music comes together into a cohesive collective of eloquent phrasing and humanistic expressions. The dialogue transposed between the synth-textured notes and pumping beats in "Overflow" give the track an electro-pop-rock vibe, shifting to a haunting tone in "There Will Be Blood" as the heavy timbre notes loop into one another.  The psychedelic rock tremors of "Follow" form kaleidoscopic beams, putting the soundscapes in a state of flux.  Moving on, "Reprise" paints dramatic streaks i...