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Sound Decisions
by Dan Nosheny
Each Sound Decisions episode focuses on a songwriter and a song. Combining lyrical analysis and music theory geekiness, we take a close-up look at how artists create the songs we love.
Episodes
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Robin Aigner - Greener
Robin Aigner has been electrifying the Brooklyn scene and beyond with intelligent, quirky, vintage-sounding original songs since 2002. She has shared festival bills with the likes of Gillian Welch, The Avett Brothers and Jolie Holland and in 2010 opened for Emmylou Harris at the inaugural show of...
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Geoff Simpson - The Poverty of Illness or the Luxury of Health
Geoff Simpson is a singer/songwriter in the Philadelphia area. In 2010, while spending year in England, he frequented the legendary open mic scene at Oxford, writing and developing the songs that he eventually recorded on his album OXFD 2010 AD. His lyrics are dense with imagery, and are...
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Brian Gray - Walk (Live from Woodbury)
Brian Gray is a songwriter and recording artist in the Philadelphia area. His songs encompass a wide variety of styles, though he sums up his overall genre as "nerd rock." They feature digitally programmed instruments as well as catchy wordplay. Brian is in the process of recording his debut…
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Lost in the Trees - An Artist's Song
Ari Picker’s band Lost in the Trees is an American orchestral folk pop band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Ari writes the songs for the group and scores them with orchestral instruments such as violin, cello, horn, and tuba. In 2012, Lost in the Trees released their album, A Church That Fits…
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The Way Home - Boundary Blurring
Today I spoke with James Hearne, a Philadelphian singer-songwriter with a powerful voice and a talent for lyrics. James is the lead singer of the four piece band, The Way Home. The band imparts its love of Americana into its well-crafted songs with a blend of jangly rock 'n roll, layered vocal...
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The Facebreaker - It Just Do/It Just Don't
In this episode, I converse with Dutch Huff. Together with his brother TJ, they make up the band The Facebreaker. Their eponymous first album was released in 2012, and features eclectic instrumentations and arrangements, styles ranging from metal to electronica to world music to surf, and guest...
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Art Elliot - Earth Abides
In this episode, I talk with Bay Area musician Art Elliot about his song Earth Abides. Art's music broaches subjects such as apocalyptic futures, lost loves, bleak ice ages, and depression-era folk art. Fashioning himself as a modern day alchemist Art transmutes popular music to the experimental,...
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Anna Dagmar - Satellite
In this episode, I talk with the New York City-based singer, songwriter, and pianist, Anna Dagmar about her song Satellite. Anna mixes elements from her training in jazz piano with inviting pop melodies and classical piano textures. For her previous album, Let The Waves Come In Threes, DJ George...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Each Sound Decisions episode focuses on a songwriter and a song. Combining lyrical analysis and music theory geekiness, we take a close-up look at how artists create the songs we love.
HOSTED BY
Dan Nosheny
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Each Sound Decisions episode focuses on a songwriter and a song. Combining lyrical analysis and music theory geekiness, we take a close-up look at how artists create the songs we love.
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Sound Decisions is created and hosted by Dan Nosheny.
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