Jim Sullivan INK July 2008 review
With his new disc “Spaceman,” Boston-area singer-songwriter-guitarist Jordan Carp joins David Bowie, Nilsson and Elton John – singing about, well, being lost in space. “Sometimes I feel like a spaceman,” Carp sings in the title song that kicks off the CD. “I don’t know where I fit in this world/So I pretend I’m above the clouds/Staring down at the world /And I feel so cold and blue sometimes.” A sentiment many of have felt – alienation being rather common in this ultra-connected age – but Carp puts into an exquisite musical context, with a drifting, dreamy quality that’s both spare and expansive. There are a lot of textures and shadows on this disc, reminiscent in ways of Peter Gabriel in his softer mode. A 2001 Berklee College of Music grad, Carp celebrates the release of his third disc Saturday May 31 at the Lizard Lounge. Opening: Josh Fix and Nadia Ackerman. Show starts at 9:30. Tickets: $7. Trivia: Before he went to Berklee, he was in New Orleans and once worked security for the fake blood-spurting, left-wing gore-mongers GWAR.
“Jordan Carp’s Delicate Sound of Thunder” review by Jim Sullivan INK
