Fertile Ground: Seasons Change

This gentle sizzling group is the type that would engage an audience leaving them raising their arms up with their smiling faces facing down, or perhaps up, while swinging from side to side, twirling and just getting coolly down to their music. Some, indubitably, with glow sticks in their hands and others with lollipops or baby suckers in their mouth while everyone is surrounded by musky feel good clean smoke. Yeah, good times and good energies with Fertile Ground while planting their own take on themselves, and us all, with dashes of lyrical wisdom to spare and share. Seasons indeed change, the fertility of this musical ground, however, remains.

A number of feelings, experiences, territories and reflections are explored through this Counterpoint Records release. Romance is there, so is reason and good ol’ exhortation. Vibrations for fun are at the base, though. Hipsting and Hoping, through various ethnic venues and resources, this group manages to seize on its size and grow within, while feeling larger than their actual numbers. Fertile Ground simply satisfies heart and brain.

The repertoire is musically sharp, generous and somewhat memetic if not in outright content, at the very least, it is so in feel. Akin to a DJ’s view, some times it even sounds like a humanized version of a cool spinner, which is quite cool in itself. Arranging their framework, within the compositions of James Collins, the inner pulsating dynamic of this sextet ebbs you on into digging the jaunt.

Fertile Ground is jazzy, soulful, and diggable, with unrefined worldly sophistication, as their singer exemplifies and the band executes.

Contact: On Fertile Ground, you can go to their home page or link to Counterpoint Records , if you feel like it, write to Fertile Ground.

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