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Rosler’s Recording Booth on Stellar Music Lists for  2011

No. 5 on Peter Chianca’s AWESOME CDS you may have missed! Click here: Peter Chianca’s list:

"Rosler's Recording Booth" No. 10 on Eric Van Domburg Scipio’s Top Ten Rock/Pop List 2011:

Heaven Magazine (The Netherlands): Click here:

“Doris From Rego Park” No. 6 on  Peter Chianca’s list of 21 stellar songs for your 2011 collection!: click here:

“Hard Goodbye” (Rosler, Margolis) performed by John Margolis, featured on Andy Propst (Theatermania)’s last minute mixes: here

ROSLER’S RECORDING BOOTH, written and produced by Don Rosler, features Spottiswoode, Jeremy Sisto, Terry Radigan, John Margolis, Tam Lin, Isabel Keating, Tamara Hey, Kathena Bryant, Jon Albrink & Don Rosler

“This ingeniously conceived disk takes listeners into an old-fashioned recording booth, and imagines the disparate people who might have used it to send postcard albums to their friends and loved ones. Rosler's melodies are decidely tuneful and are enriched enormously by a slight creepy seediness that makes one feel as if one's stumbled into a rundown carnival. Theater veterans Jeremy Sisto and Isabel Keating are on hand, along with artists such as Spottiswoode, Terry Radigan and Jon Albrink.... This is a disc that listeners may find themselves returning to

over and over."    Andy Propst, TheaterMania

 ***** (5 out of 5 stars)!  Jonathan Spottiswoode is also one of the guest vocalists on the beautiful album that New York producer, composer and owner Don Rosler recently created under the name “Rosler’s Recording Booth.”  Mostly known as one of the driving forces behind Bobby McFerrin’s masterpiece “VOCAbuLarieS,” which debuted last year, Rosler, with the help of lesser known but not less talented singers, goes down an extraordinarily beautiful path in which (restrained) orchestral pop melts together with emotional singer/songwriter music.  It delivers the highly exceptional and moving album that unites the best of Randy Newman and Nino Rota, and every time we play it we can’t wait to hear what Don Rosler has to offer us next.  Music of this level is so rare that you want to give it to your friends as a gift because it is an experience that needs to be shared immediately.”

Pieter Wijnstekers/Heaven Magazine

“Highlights come from the artists Spottiswoode, with tracks like “Where Do I come in?” and actor Jeremy Sisto in his recorded music debut on “Halfway Honest Living.”  Mixed in with the music are amazing tracks of found recordings, from actual recording booths and even answering machines.... Rosler’s Recording Booth is a unique vision unlike anything else I’ve heard this year.  For fans of musicals and straightforward pop songs, this album is definitely one to add to the collection.”  EA's Brain

"Darkly surreal and often quirkily charming, Rosler’s Recording Booth is one of the most original album concepts in recent months.....You’ve probably at least heard of the hit single, Doris From Rego Park, sung by Rosler himself – Rosler sings to her gently over a hypnotic, new wave pop-tinged keyboard lullaby, almost as one would to a child. As sympathetic a portrait as Rosler paints, it evokes a crushing loneliness. The rest of the album ranges from upbeat to downright haunting. Spottiswoode lends his rich, single-malt baritone to two cuts....Tam Lin sings a pensive 6/8 ballad, a childhood reminiscence with Irish tinges. Terry Radigan takes over the mic on a jauntily creepy circus tune, an understatedly chilling account of homeless through a little girl’s eyes, and a quietly optimistic wartime message home from a young woman to her family....Kathena Bryant brings a towering, soulful presence to the September song Where I’ve Been, What I’ve Done, Jeremy Sisto sings a broodingly psychedelic criminal’s tale, and Rosler himself leads the choir through a deftly orchestrated reminiscence…of singing in a choir." Lucid Culture

“Rosler’s Recording Booth -- This concept CD that reminds me of an era of songwriting when Van Dyke Parks, Harry Nilsson, and Randy Newman were just launching their careers. It features a number of guest vocalists breathing life into 16 of Don Rosler's sumptuous songs. My favorite is this simple, acoustic guitar folk-pop ballad [“First I Draw The Sun”] featuring the sweet, clear-throated vocals of N.Y.C.-based singer Tamara Hey.”  Dusty Wright, Culture Catch

."Rosler has added another off-ramp on the Great American Songbook highway. Rosler's Recording Booth is a concept album that should find its way to the desk of Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner.  There is a great TV series in these stories and the soundtrack has been taken care of.” "Hans Werksman, Here Comes The Flood

"Very impressed with the interweaving of the authentic coin-op recordings with the new songs. ... like a theatrical production...the music is in keeping with such a performance style, and the nostagic theme wafts through the entire collection.” Alan Dein, BBC Radio

"The great thing about Rosler is that he finds the universal truth through the colorful details, like a finely etched painting. And he's found a variety of voices for his canvas."   Kevin Scott Hall, Edge

“Rosler has interesting ideas about orchestration.... So there are surprising combinations of instruments and tonalities, but it all works beautifully. Spottiswoode’s take on Where Do I Come In? brings it all together for me. The arrangement here is startling, with sudden shifts in mood and tonality.... There are many other fine performances on this album. I want to know more about Spottiswoode, and also about Terry Radigan, who contributes four wonderfully varied performances here. Other listeners will find other gems as well.”

Darius Rips, Oliver di Place Blog

“I gotta say Rosler’s Recording Booth is one of the most interesting CDs I’ve heard in 2011....’Doris From Rego Park’ is an instant classic....” Eric Cohen, WAER Music Director

“Totally enjoyed ‘Rosler’s’...It is all good, new and quite refreshingly different, to say the least.” 

Mark Caldwell, WAWL

 

“...I really love this album.”  Trish Lewis WUCX-FM

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Rosler’s Recording Booth on Stellar Music Lists for  2011

Rosler's Recording Booth, a  new concept CD, written and produced by critically acclaimed songwriter

Don Rosler, garnered national attention weeks before its official release date, as the song "Doris from Rego Park" generated buzz on WNYC, WFAN and in Ken Plutnicki's article, "Doris From Rego Park Lives On In Song" in The New York Times.

"Doris From Rego Park," performed by Don Rosler, is one of sixteen contemporary songs on Rosler's Recording Booth, featuring ten fantastical artists: Spottiswoode,

Jeremy Sisto, Isabel Keating, Terry Radigan, John Margolis,

Kathena Bryant (of The Hippy Nuts), Tam Lin, Jon Albrink,

Tamara Hey and Don Rosler.

The CD takes the listener on an eclectic Nino Rota meets Randy Newman

& Kurt Weill-like musical theatrical journey: A shy fella who drops a coin

into the booth, struggling to send a one-minute audio postcard to his

long-distance girlfriend (Rosler performing "Recording Booth").

The euphoric pronouncements of a cocky – or is he delusional? – lad

serenading his gal from the Empire State Building Observatory

(Spottiswoode singing "You Won't Believe"). A wife who knows her

WWII soldier's most recent audio missive by heart ("We'll Have ‘Em All

Over") followed by "Give It a Whirl," a carpe diem-fueled tarantella,

both performed by Terry Radigan.

There's lots of other short stories in song along the way, including the Song-of-Seikilos-inspired ballad, "Where I've Been, What I've Done," performed by Kathena Bryant, accompanied by 2010 Grammy nominated cellist Dave Eggar. The journey ends with Rosler, as Ringleader, singing "Take It Slow," where he is visited by a ghostly reverie of sounds and voices (the Emily Bindiger Choir and the Rosler's Recording Booth Choir).

Rosler's Recording Booth also features film & t.v. star Jeremy Sisto’s singing debut, Tony nominee & Drama Desk Award winning actress and singer, Isabel Keating (with a special guest cameo by Isabel's mother Carmen Keating), and four more formidable artists: John Margolis, Tam Lin, Jon Albrink & Tamara Hey, accompanied by virtuoso background vocalists and musicians as Jim Beard, Everett Bradley, Joshua Camp, Jim Gately, Shawn Pelton, Gary Schreiner and Peter Valentine.  The spectacular cover art of the CD is from an original painting by Patrick Bucklew.

Rosler used Wilcox-Gay Recordios and Voice-o-Graph recordings as a

springboard for inspiring the concept. "There was a Voice-o-Graph record I

hadn't heard for many years, made by my Grandpa Abe  & older brothers

Mike and Dave when they were crammed into a recording booth at the

Jolly Roger's arcade on Long Island. When I finally heard that Voice-o-

Graph of them singing, and then years later a Kitchen Sister's report on

NPR called ‘War and Separation,' where they played Recordios exchanged

amongst separated lovers and families, I was riveted." Rosler continued,

"I wrote these songs with some of the Recordios rolling around in my head.

While I didn't let these records dictate all of the characters or themes, they

often, along with my ideas for the arrangement landscape,

created some intriguing parameters."

All Rights Reserved (c) Don Rosler, Rosler’s Recording Booth 2011 SESAC, Lisha Publishing