Musikanto

MUSIKANTO (Grape Juice Records Chicago) VIDEO: "Every Which Way" VIDEO: "Blues For Momma" MUSIKANTO OFFICIAL WEBSITE MUSIKANTO walks the line between Indie-Blues and Urban Americana, while borrowing elements of Experimental Folk and Broken-down Orchestral music. Growing up listening to his father's obscure folk & roots records he was taught music through the likes of Fraser and Debolt and Jerry Hahn. With heartbreaking ballads and melodic melodrama, Musikanto's songs have the grind of a Chicago winter and the soul of a Midwestern bon-fire and it’s as sincere as it gets. With an honest comparison, Musikanto carries the lyrical weight of folks like Leonard Cohen and the back road sense of Leon Russell with the driving tone of Ray Lamontagne or Amos Lee. His narratives reach the core of the human spirit like an outsider who has witnessed something very real. After years of touring and writing, Musikanto set out to make his best record to date. Making countless drives from Chicago across the Illinois/Wisconsin border during the hours when most people were sleeping or just waking, he recorded in a house in Mequon, WI. These late night and early morning drives helped the songs evolved and become personal and unchangeable. Finding solitude on the drives Musikanto recalls a peaceful and perfect canvas for completing lyrics and piecing together the final arrangements he was hearing in his head as he drove. Every song on the new record has its own intrinsic ambiance. The vocals are telling a story that really happened, honest and at times seem to be on the verge of collapse. The record is personal and true to life.

"When a song sounds authentic, it doesn’t matter what label you tack on it, people will take notice..” - Alexandra Fletcher :: Paste Magazine