China
Towards The Sun

Imagine you get into your car on a rainy April day in Atlanta and five hours later you'll end up in Florida at midnight and the air is warm and soft. On this trip you have a thousand tracks on your iPod and only 5 gets played over 5 hours in repeat¹⁾. In our case it was China, kind of a all-star project of not enough well known musicians.

China is Michael J. Tapscott who recorded phantastic spaced out music with Odawas, collaborated with Donovan Quinn (of The Skygreen Leopards) and released wonderful solo records. Jason Quever, recorded one of my favorite  dream pop records as Papercuts. Raphi Gottesman who just recently released a tape with some slow motion, almost static ambient pop. And Jeff Moller, together with some other collaborateurs.

To me, Tapscott's and Quever's influences on China are the most obvious (even if Quever is just helping out on the cello here). It's Tapscott's gentle voice, the harmonica he used in the past and that reminds me a bit on a cosmic Neil Young without the double denim and the mellow sun flooded sixties psych pop of Papercuts.

Since the best things in life are free, this album as well as the previous one by China can be downloaded for free or you pay what you want and support some great musicians to record more music.

Highly recommended!

1.) I exaggerate here, we listened to the album maybe 5 times in a row

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