Music of the World

OFFICIAL: https://www.joeolnick.com/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/JoeOlnickMusic Written by Mike Yoder, posted by blog admin Six albums deep into a rich, constantly evolving career Joe Olnick drops Downtown , perhaps his band’s finest work yet.   Instrumental bands have it tough because even has a huge fan of instrumental music, some of my favorite bands without vocalists I still find myself imaging vocal melodies too.   Downtown has the distinct honor of not really inspiring me to do that because I was so completely involved with the seven tracks on offer here.   From funk to jazz to hard rock to ambient trance there’s a million different styles packed into every inch of this record.   The funky wah-wah guitars and concrete thick bass lines of opener “Downtown” builds up a groovy head of steam in the first half.   Drummer Jamie Smucker lays into a pocket beat full of spectral cymbal ghosting and jazzy snare marches while the song’s...