What Happens In a Year, ceremonie/musique | The Vinyl Anachronist

  What happens in a year, indeed. We all have our 2020 stories of bad luck, the things that happened to us IN ADDITION TO all of the things happening to us all. Mine is the fact I lost my dad in August, and I just traveled to Colorado and back to visit my mom and kind of look around and see where this family’s headed for the next few years. I returned just a couple of days ago and yes, my mailbox was stuffed with countless CDs and several LPs had been rescued from a not-so-dry front porch. I don’t know why I picked the CD ceremonie/musique from What Happens In a Year to play first. Maybe it was the old school cover which I felt was comforting in a minimalist way. What Happens in a Year is an odd jazz trio, one made up of a guitarist (Todd Neufeld), an electric bassist (Giacomo Merega) and one multi-instrumentalist, Josh Sinton, who is the composer of these spare but vivid original creations. This might seem a little confusing, but Sinton had a concept of music that was “quiet, spacious and executed at fast tempos.” It’s hard to imagine this dichotomy […]