Search - Michael Lowenstern :: Fade

Fade. It's a nostalgia album. Michael Lowenstern's fourth solo recording is about personal memories of his first weekend in Brooklyn, of the birth of his daughter, of meeting his wife, of writing music in the summer of 1991 with his best friend, of his father's advice, of an overnight drive from Illinois to St. Louis to play a show, of living in Holland -- and then leaving. And, it's about how Mike deals with these memories by stuffing them in their own shoebox under his bed, and then taking them out to look at and enjoy every so often. It's electronica jazz: with live instruments blowing over the changes. It's jazz electronica: with electronics weaving their way through the acoustic instruments. And, it's classical music the way some people are afraid it's going: trained musicians leaving "the fold" to work out their muse elsewhere. This CD is his fourth in 11 years, and in Lowenstern's words, in many ways it's the one he's always wanted to make, with his love for pop culture on its sleeve. And, in many ways, it's an evolution of his last disc "Ten Children," incorporating melody and simple form as its foundation.