As I appealed to them, they slapped in the Dave Matthews Band and gave up on anything outside the mainstream. Down on the ocean floor, sunlight struggles to reach electric eels foraging for food among forgotten shipwrecks. We stand in the kitchen and swallow ice water. Ryan Buell's nostalgic upright piano gropes for familiar ground and Stephen Wisniewski's acoustic guitar drags its feet. Buell's accordion wheezes and Maynard's percussion rustles like blowing leaves, but everything whips into a silly, dizzying swirl.
Monstrous downers threaten, but are beaten back by creative arrangements.
It returns with cryptic tales of gold doubloons and dangerous creatures, mixing polished traditional sounds with jarring rock. Ziemba Return to Front Page . SGI Publications Website hosted by Whirligig Studios since 1995.