| singer | songwriter | blues harp player | breast cancer survivor |
'GLORY BOX' NO LONGER AVAILABLE OUT OF STOCK KARISMAKATZ 'SPIRIT ON THE RISE' CD NOW AVAILABLE |
| "This album is something special... superb performances... lyrically powerful and thought provoking... a strong message of getting on with life through adversity... the spirit and adaptability of love shine through beautifully..." Phil Birch-Marston, Artsound FM DJ Gosper, harp/vocals/songwriting and Christo Carlsen, guitars, have produced a very interesting album that is going to be hard for anyone to pigeon hole (so I won’t try!!) ... Both are highly regarded for their blues playing in the Canberra scene and not although standard blues this album certainly covers the blues’ most important ingredient, feel. 14 original tracks covering over an hour of material traverses through style’s, genres, rhythms, grooves even sparseness! Lyrics and music combine to paint a picture of places, events and people with travel through the mystic, even some free association? These are songs about real things, born from experience, both true and imagined, love, pain, joy, sex, cars, family, mortality, spirit, drugs and psychology to name but a few. When it does all this it doesn’t need to be pigeon holed as it will mean so many things to so many people. Ross Mortimer - Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society |