{"id":2404,"date":"2014-03-01T10:38:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T18:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2014-03-01T17:32:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T01:32:47","slug":"album-review-the-calamity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/album-review-the-calamity\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: The Calamity"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Ghost of These Moments<\/em>
\nBy Pam Baumgardner<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>Listening to the first track of A Ghost of These Moments<\/em>, \u201cEverybody Knows\u201d I immediately envision a dark smoky room after hours at some underground speakeasy back in the day where the a lone individual is singing to no one in particular on an upright piano.\u00a0 Raw vocals.\u00a0 Deep in thought.\u00a0 Yeah, \u201cEverybody Knows\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 They had my attention.<\/p>\n

The Calamity was originally formed by several members of Army of Freshmen back in 2005.\u00a0 There\u2019s no doubt about it, the members are talented and given a little bit of downtime, they\u2019ll be working on new material, because that\u2019s what artists do, and that\u2019s what Owen Bucey, Aaron Goldberg and Kai Dodson did one night when everybody else went out; they hung back picked up different instruments and started messing around with new material.\u00a0 And though Bucey stuck with keyboards, for the first time he was writing lyrics.\u00a0 Eventually Balt Cano and Phil Tibbs would round out the band adding a tad of an edge to their sound.<\/p>\n

A Ghost of These Moments<\/em> is The Calamity\u2019s second release, and it contains 12 solid songs.\u00a0 The second track \u201cKilling Time\u201d establishes the power pop dynamic of the band with poignant lyrics about wanting to do something as you realize life is passing you by.<\/p>\n

As I listen to each track and hear the lyrics I\u2019m impressed by mature nature of looking at life.\u00a0 Digging deep and pulling out the stops about how it\u2019s not always easy, yearning for an easier life, people snapping under pressure, yet you can also hear the commitment to family, friends and doing what\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

My favorite tracks are “Killing Time”, “B-Side” and “Musical Fashion”.\u00a0 I tend to lean towards the upbeat side of music.\u00a0\u00a0 But I have to say that at one point listening to \u201cDescend\u201d I could feel the the ghost of John Lennon being channeled. It was interesting how Lennon had stripped down from highly produced Beatle tunes to working with Ono where it was more organic and real; and that\u2019s what I hear from Bucey\u2019s vocals, and simply produced tracks from The Calamity.<\/p>\n

The record is produced by The Calamity and Armand John Anthony, engineered and mixed by Armand John Anthony.\u00a0 Mastered by Paul Miner @ Buzzbomb Studios, Orange, CA.\u00a0 There are also guest performances from Austin Knecht, Marcella Tambouris and Zeke Berkley.<\/p>\n

I love this town with so many amazing artists who support each other and collaborate and promote and continue to create new works for us to enjoy.\u00a0 I recommend you add a copy of A Ghost of These Moments<\/em> to your collection and see if you don’t agree.<\/p>\n

See VenturaRocks.com Interview with Owen Bucey<\/a><\/p>\n

Struggle<\/strong>
\n“It’s a constant struggle<\/em>
\nBut it’s beautiful<\/em>
\nHold me back before I fall<\/em>
\nKeep the light on for me<\/em>
\nI’m coming soon<\/em>
\nTo our family, our home”<\/em><\/p>\n

The Calamity:
\nAaron Goldberg
\nBaltazar Cano
\nKai Dodson
\nOwen Bucey|
\nPhil Tibbs<\/p>\n

i-Tunes<\/a>
\nAmazon<\/a>
\ncdBaby<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Ghost of These Moments By Pam Baumgardner Listening to the first track of A Ghost of These Moments, \u201cEverybody Knows\u201d I immediately envision a dark smoky room after hours at some underground speakeasy back in the day where the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[428,382,430,429,413,431,424],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-review","tag-a-ghost-of-these-moments","tag-aaron-goldberg","tag-balt-cano","tag-kai-dodson","tag-owen-bucey","tag-phil-tibbs","tag-the-calamity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2468,"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions\/2468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}