The music features a sassy acoustic wah-wah geetar, image evoking lyrics, and harmonica melodies catchier than your velcro shoe. Both live and in the studio rotating players are regularly added to the uncrowded mix to create a highly dynamic, low volume sound that will put a smile on your ears.
The independently released debut record was featured on MTV’s The Real World, on countless non-commercial and internet radio stations, and was in the top 9,000 on the Amazon.com Sales Rank for nine months. But don’t just rely on the written word, put the Harmonica Pocket in your ear.
Stylistically, the songs cover much ground. Consider “On The Rail,” a bluesy tale documenting the final 5 minutes of a downhearted man’s life as he lays his head on a railroad track and waits for the next train to come.
From the playful “Spiders In My Breakfast,” a children’s song written from the perspective of a spider, to the pop-jazzy tune “A Couple More Raindrops,” which uses hand claps and tapped harmonics to simulate raindrops, the Harmonica Pocket builds diverse lyrical and musical images with a strong sense of fluency and purpose.
The Harmonica Pocket’s initial release “Underneath Your Umbrella” and the forthcoming “Birds Falling From the Sky” take musical risks and pull off a refreshing, colorful sound. From the untraditional stripped down instrumentation – human beatbox, didgeridoo, voicemail excerpts, and ambient field recordings – to the experimental quality of the songs, the Harmonica Pocket consistently colors outside the lines of commercial music and invites listeners for a warm drink with fresh, colorful sounds.
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