Reviews

Artist:Tokyo Rosenthal
Album:Love Won Out
Tracks:10
Label:Rock & Sock Records
Website: www.myspace.com/tokyorosenthal

Blessed with a voice of extraordinary versatility, coupled with the ability to convey very deep emotions. Tokyo Rosenthal appears to be a leading contender for the titles': Storyteller of depth and detail, purveyor of expanding sound and One with one of the freshest voices on the alternative Americana scene today.

We Planted Seeds-track 2- is a deeply affecting and seemingly personal reflection. Augmented by clambering, hungry acoustic guitar, soaring, melodic and joyful violin/fiddle and complemented perfectly by atmospheric and meditative tambourine. Tokyo's vocal delivers a melody that rises, falls and weaves the song together beautifully. His driving vibrato sets the whole thing alight with twinkling clarity and a measure of controlled ferocity that is utterly captivating.

Track 6- If I Could Draw My Heart is a gentle giant. A haunting masterpiece bearing Tokyo's unmistakable Anglo- Celtic musical vision. This song will stir your repressed emotions and melt away your cares in the most tentative and unobtrusive way possible.

Other songs here explore and incorporate, Coffee House Jazz, Blues, Country,traditional Bluegrass sensibilities and retrospective Rock in such an uncompromising, masterful and distinctive way that it would be unimaginative not to expect good things to come from this intriguing and talented artist.

Final song- Goodnight Carrie I'm Coming Home is a buoyant classic Rock number that is bathed in blue wash, dreamy cloudscapes and haunting lyric. This is ideal synchronization material and if the record label are aware of this, they will no doubt be knocking on the doors of programming executives everywhere at this very moment.

Jim Sutherland 2009

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