Album Review: It Comes In Waves from Denin Slage-Koch
Album: It Comes In Waves Artist: Denin Slage-Koch Label: Slage-Koch Records Website: www.deninkochmusic.com Award-winning guitarist, composer, and educator Denin Slage-Koch demonstrates his zeal and striking melodic sensibilities on her latest recording It Comes In Waves . His music illustrates the capacity of the human spirit to move forward with an uplifting outlook. The bubbling mood of "The Road Home" stokes the embers of good cheer, as the serene swells of the title track bask the listener in a reclining climate reflective of David Brubeck. The smooth radiance emanating from Slage-Koch's guitar strings along "One For Honey" has a soft bluesy texture amplified by the rollicking beats of Bobby Wiens's drums and Gavin Allen-Dunn's tricking keys. "The Cost of Apathy" shifts the recording into a mellow ambience as the horns vibrate at varied temperaments from a sullen stride to soaring brightly, flanked by brushed drums and subdued keyboa...