{"id":1542,"date":"2019-01-15T00:33:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T00:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlevillagefoundation.com\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2020-11-20T18:07:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T18:07:08","slug":"maurice-tani-this-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/littlevillagefoundation.com\/lv2021\/maurice-tani-this-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Maurice Tani"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MAURICE TANI – THIS IS IT!<\/h1>\n

Live Acoustic Performance In-Concert Recording<\/h2>\n

NEW ALBUM FROM SINGER-SONGWRITER ON LITTLE VILLAGE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Singer-songwriter Maurice Tani\u2019s second album on the Little Village label, \u201cThis Is It!\u201d<\/strong><\/em>, is a live, acoustic recording capturing the excitement and spontaneity of a live concert.<\/p>\n

Known for his wry\/rye-to-romantic songwriting, agile guitar style and expressive singing, Tani’s particular flavor of Americana is a broad spectrum tincture of influences to cure what ails you. While rooted (at times distantly) in country music, his writing is centered on an urban-western perspective. Short musical narratives of life on the left coast. A sort of cinema for the blind.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was actually blown away. Maurice Tani writes songs that sound at once familiar, ethereal and beautiful. \u2026 songwriter\u2019s songwriter<\/strong> with reoccurring themes and his own life experiences, a mournful world critics to date have rushed to categorize as \u201ccountry music.\u201d -Robert Sproul, No Depression Magazine<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recorded at the acoustically gorgeous Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, California and mixed by Kid Andersen<\/strong> at his Greaseland Music<\/strong> Services facility in San Jose, \u201cThis Is It!\u201d was tracked entirely live and features all acoustic instrumentation.<\/p>\n

As with his live shows,\u201cThis Is It!\u201d<\/strong><\/em> is something of a \u201cBest Of\u201d package, featuring material spanning Tani\u2019s work over the last 15 years, all fleshed out with a brilliant band well suited for the subtle, nuance-to-large hammer approach the writing demands.<\/p>\n

Pianist Henry Salvia shines brightly throughout with colorful playing that compliments the material beautifully, as do the rhythm section of 77 El Deora regulars, bassist Mike Anderson<\/strong>, Ken Owen\u00a0<\/strong>on drums and percussionist Jeanine Richardson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Besides Tani, featured vocalists include long-time sparring partner Pam Brandon<\/strong>, and the fabulous gospel singing of LVF labelmates The Sons Of The Soul Revivers<\/strong><\/em> -brothers Dwayne<\/strong>, James<\/strong> and Walter Morgan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>