Matt Andersen - The Big Bottle Of JoyDouble vinyl LP pressing. The Big Bottle of Joy is about celebration hard won, overflowing, exuberant celebration. Matt Andersen's latest long player lives up to the grand title from it's opening song, "Let It Slide"; a muscular, organ drenched urge for people to chill out and be good to each other to it's understated, romantic curtain closer, "Shoes." Andersen finds reason to sustain this celebration of the life we share together everywhere on the

Hildegard until Pope Benedict surprisingly entered her in the canon of the Catholic Church last year

the pompous British landlord of the house she's renting warns her of two dangers: the wind

After the war

Beautiful melodies

" It's a Waits-arranged pastiche

Even if the music could be lazily classified as electronic

and an essay by Peter Marks

For example a complete single from the Doo Wop section of The Melodeers

"We had never done acoustic versions of our music before

but also wants to do this without losing their integrity and personality

She later studied violin in South Korea and Germany

' On their debut CD Taylor is the main songwriter