Hey, a great new review of Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time went up by Joseph Neff on The Vinyl District yesterday. What I especially love about it is the way Neff puts Welcome Up in the context of Twice Upon A Rhyme, concluding that Welcome Up "hits the ear as the best kind of long-delayed follow-up to a phenomenon of cultish proportions; unstrained, totally comfortable in the present time, but sounding like nothing else on the current scene." Read the whole review, with thoughts about each song -- such as, "the album’s standout is really “Picture Postcard World,” which infuses the soft-pop cheer with persistent psych swirl (getting downright underwater toward the end) as Levinson hits just the right level of crooner" -- over here.
And speaking of Welcome Up and Twice Upon A Rhyme, I'll be singing songs from both, as well as a couple of new songs, at a virtual (online) totally FREE one-hour concert at Amazingcon on Saturday, 6-7pm. Although the concert is totally free, you do need to register beforehand, which you can do here. You register just once for the entire three-day online convention, which will feature all kinds of science fiction stars, whom you can see here. In addition to my concert, I'll be on several panels, and also reading from my novelette, Robinson Calculator -- my complete schedule is here. What a treat it would be to see some of you on that Zoom screen on Saturday!
Songs from Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time played on
- Dig Vinyl's Melodic Distraction playlist, American Dream with Yvonne
- Howard Margolin's 37th Anniversary Destinies, WUSB Radio
- Carl Thien's WZBC show (scroll down to Part 2)
- Patrick Rands' Abstract Terrain show on WZBC Radio in Boston
- Kevin Anthony's Psychedelic Jukebox
- Captain Phil's WUSB-FM show.
- Plus the following stations: Bellarmine Radio, Louisville, KY; KDWG Radio, Dillon, Montana; The End, Cleveland, OH; SYN Radio, Melbourne, Australia
You can get all the Welcome Up music, any time, here:
And here's Twice Upon a Rhyme:
More Welcome Up Reviews and Interviews:
- Taro Miyasugi says Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time is "a stunning folk pop album with gorgeous late 60s elements like vintage velveteen cloth..."
- Evan LeVine observes about Welcome Up that "any fan of Twice Upon A Rhyme will be overjoyed by it... As otherworldly, mystical and far-out as the subject matter may be, the songs burst with love and warmth and humanity."
- in-depth interview about Welcome Up in Klemen Breznikar's Psychedelic Baby Magazine
- new audio Bear Tones podcast in which talk about Welcome Up and Twice Upon A Rhyme.
And ... early warning: another new review of Welcome Up in the next issue (#54) of Ugly Things Magazine.
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