“One More Day” – SheLoom
Welcome to a song that doesn’t sound like a lot that you’ve probably been listening to lately, unless you have had an unaccountable hankering for your old Bob Welch records. (Nah, I didn’t think so.)
Needless to say, “One More Day” isn’t the product of some net-addled 21st-century rock band, but a collaboration between two nimble studio veterans. Both Filippo Gaetani and Jordon Zadorozny have track records extending backwards to the ’90s, and the breadth of experience to pull off this jazzy slice of pseudo-’70s rock. I’ll leave it to the even more philosophically minded than I to ponder why it can be so enjoyable to hear new music smartly influenced by old music that one never liked all that much in the first place. A conundrum for our catholic times, musically speaking. But I’m digging a lot about this, from those jazz-inflected suspended chords to the deft shifts in rhythm (from intro to verse, verse to bridge, bridge to chorus) and then the way the meandery verse leads into what amounts to a double chorus—the bridge and chorus are distinct but interrelated, and each offers a sturdy melody delivered with a stirring mixture of nostalgia and creativity.
“One More Day” is from the SheLoom album Seat of the Empire, digitally released last week by Minty Fresh Records. MP3 via Minty Fresh.
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Totally DOES sound like Bob, and I like it!
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“why it can be so enjoyable to hear new music smartly influenced by old music that one never liked all that much in the first place” It puts that old bad music in a new context which allows one to take a fresh look at it and concentrate on the pleasant elements that get lost within the general aura of dislike.
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I can’t wait to hear this stuff! I know Jordon and he is a wealth of musical knowledge as well as a fantastic multi-insrumentalist!
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