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I wanted to let you know a little about our review teams collective thoughts on music. It's important to let the people that we review know how we think of their music and how we listened to their creations.

First of all, we strongly believe that if your music stinks then the world should know about it! After all, you have the nerve to charge as much for your stuff as the majors do so it better be pretty damn good. If your material is good, we'll be glad to tell the world. I We will hold nothing back! That is a promise.
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Layered aromas of love and madness are followed by flavors of sin, bliss and addiction filling the whole palate with haunting, surrealistic poetry and jazz fusion.

Genre: Spoken Word: With Music
Release Date: 2009

Bringing poetry to life, "Empty Swings," creatively composed by Jeff Callahan brilliantly blends spoken word with Jazz Fusion. Each track features Callahan verbalizing life and nature with a voice that is soft and gentle. Callahan paints pictures with lyrics like "...wildly rummaging through button-down clouds and in pot bellied raindrops smothering the haunted beating of your nightstand clock" on the track "Sweet Dreams Earth."

Even though the album is focused around the spoken poems, the instrumental background deserves credit as the cast of musicians deftly perform with emotive tonality. For instance, listen as the sweet and tender electric piano and soulful saxophone cascade around the poetic words on “Slide, Slide, Slide.”

Song Samples from the CD
All song samples are from Jeff Callahan's page on CD Baby.

 / Slide, Slide, Slide /  Rejoice / Blue Pendulums / Lion Postures / 
 / Fling Wide the Gates /  Sweet Dreams Earth /  Twilight Tapestries / 
 / I, My Magdalene and Mescal /  Private Collection of Madness / 
 / Gardens of Your Spring /  Hands of Time /  Smidgens of Sin / 
 / Evening's Skeleton /  Wishing Well /  A Sigh and A Shrug / 
 / The Sky of Sleep / 

Conclusion:

"Empty Swings" gives a listener great imagery with its poetic words and is complemented by wonderful music making it an album well worth having.

Jef Peace ...EvO:R Reviewer.

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