Every year, BMI composers add an incredible audio dimension to films screening at the Sundance Film Festival, and this year is no exception. Although the 2021 festival is virtual, they are still adding the magic that only the right music can provide. From Kathyrn Bostic’s dazzling work in two biopics… Read more...
There is a plaintive stretch in the heart of Inclusions, the second solo album by Ben Sollee. Lush arcs of strings and vocals from “Embrace” give way to the swinging stroll of “Bible Belt,” a sparse marriage of heartfelt R&B with wisps of Dixie horns. Shining brightest in these moments… Read more...
Diverse currents coalesce in the music of singer-songwriter-cellist Ben Sollee: the folk and bluegrass of his native Kentucky, the searching soul music of singers like Sam Cooke, the Western classical tradition he studied in college. But what emerges on his debut album, Learning to Bend, is a wholly personal voice… Read more...
