Local Band Feel is a column dedicated to shining a light on music that’s happening around the corner, down the block, or a few towns over in our particular corner of the Pennsylvania wilds. We encourage you to support the bands featured, should you feel so inclined.
Jamie Kali lives one city over from me. Wilkes Barre is the Shelbyville to Scranton’s Springfield. If you live in there, your perspective is probably vice versa (at least I hope that it would be). That seems like that’s the way that it’s always been, and probably will be forevermore. Putting all of my sister city biases aside, Ms. Kali along with her compatriots have crafted something pretty interesting with their latest release; a self-titled, and self-released effort credited to, Kali Ma and the Garland of Arms. What’s offered here is a bakers dozen of dreamy neo-psychedelic tunes that seem to take more cues from Grace Slick’s early Airplane flights than Lennon/McCartney for once, which is a nice change of pace. We recommend you crack a Steg and settle in for a long strange trip down the electric mindshaft for this one.
The 13th Track 