The Blackened Air: Clear Vinyl LP Anoushka Shankar Rose City Band’s country psychedelic

Rose City Band’s country psychedelic rock evokes the wide-open spaces of the American west and free spirits who call it home

He came to visit her in Moscow

and two vocalizers

Tomorrow's Dust

and Haley hopes the music yields more

The Blackened Air: Clear Vinyl LP Anoushka Shankar Rose City Band’s country psychedelicOn The Blackened Air (her second album but first for Touch and Go, originally released in 2002), Nina Nastasia and her band are not content to just support a vocal melody; they pry it apart and look down its throat. The stringed and wind instruments (viola, cello, mandolin, accordion, bowed saw, acoustic and electric guitars) reach up out of the songs into rarefied territory. Little stories of Peeping Toms and the police lights they bring with them,