From “Super Storm” to “5 Foot 2”, from “Paradoxical Recoil” to the lead track “Zulu”, the prolific and experienced Canadian creative grinds exciting riffs, pushes leading rhythms, and exalts with cohesive and coherent sound.
Biting, bright, eclectic, and deeply rooted in his collective matrix – Pennan Brae is out with a fresh and crisp selection of 10 tracks packed into the work titled The Garden Series, Vol. 2: Picked.
Vancouver-based singer-songwriter Pennan Brae performs his vintage 70s Zulu dance to release his latest 10-track album, The Garden Series, Vol. 2: Picked.
From Super Storm to 5 Foot 2, from Paradoxical Recoil to the lead track Zulu, the prolific and experienced Canadian creative grinds exciting riffs, pushes leading rhythms, and exalts with cohesive and coherent sound.
Biting, bright, eclectic, and deeply rooted in his collective matrix – Pennan Brae is out with a fresh and crisp selection of 10 tracks packed into the work titled The Garden Series, Vol. 2: Picked.
Lush like never before, he is back in the studio to finalize the second volume of her Garden Series. The seeds and sprouts that the kaleidoscopic artist continues to inebriate the air with fragrant and even tasty pollens.
The criterion is precisely to take care of a Jasonic vision and idea, which is faithful to its Moon-centric stellar root. Yet Pennan Brae manages to amaze us every single time. And he always does it systematically.
As with all of his previous works, this second part of the double album The Garden Series excels in the thrilling sequencing that accompanies the Canadian artist’s creative story.
Well-rounded and rocking are just two of the keywords you find when looking online for something more about Brae’s music. However, with this second volume Pennan brings to the table yet another piece of work that is capable of reaching the hearts and minds of many, if not all.
The clear and shrewd songwriting, and the intense and skillful instrumentation, give pure joy in listening, whatever the stylistic liking of the listener.
The matrix that drips classic rock from the 70s and 80s is undoubtedly evident, working as the logical leitmotif of a sound chiseled with care, vision, and clarity of synthesis.
Yet from the very first moment, you can see in all his streamlined eructivity how much Pennan has been able to expand his musical cosmos.
Undeniable, the sparkling gem Zulu ignites the energy and enthusiasm that is lived enjoying the more than 40 minutes during which the asset written by the Canadian unravels.
However, as soon as listening touches the beginning of the excellence of Paradoxical Recoil, we understand that this album is not just a pleasant collection of Stoner-style works.
We already know this, as do the friends who have been following us for some time. Brae has his signature. A badge affixed to the sparkling lapel, engraved with the notes of an earworm that could read ‘I am the 70s, I am the 80s’.
Yet Pennan constantly builds bridges. Bridges that are projected to catapult you out of Earth’s orbit. And this is not an escapist process. Rather it is the identification of a Rocket Man, his driving force, and the musical cloud that his engine leaves in the wake as the engine pushes again and again and again to overcome the unstoppable and perpetual force of gravity.
It is not an escapist exercise for its own sake. Rather, it is the natural application of following a route, story after story, stage by stage, stage by stage, to reach a faraway destination.
This is how the energetic and effervescent pinnacle of Super Storm works as a perfect point of no return. Here is the imaginative fascination of seeing the planet we have just left through a porthole. And by peering into the opposite corner of that same porthole, we can find out the amplitude of the horizon towards which we are heading.
Literally, a Domino effect, as the title of the sixth track explains laconically. Literally, a 4 To The Floor, to constantly remind us where we started from.
Precisely a stride, as the eighth song says, accomplished with the acquiescence of the ninth.
The whole parable of the second volume of The Garden Series finds its magical cinematic epilogue in the tenth number, 5 Foot 2. Here the journey ends, not to end.
This Picked is an album that could also be listened to in reverse, from the first track to the first. And then go back through the first volume, and then back again to the Shaded Joy released in 2008.
For the umpteenth Pennan Brae has outdone himself. Obviously, this is the case. As long as it continues to evolve and expand, digging into his garden, planting seeds of his matrix, these will perpetually remain our words of truth.
An opinion, of course, but one that we challenge you to deny or confirm. How? Going to find our reflections right in the music of Pennan Brae. 
Listen now to The Garden Series, Vol. 2: Picked, the latest Album by Pennan Brae, available in streaming on all major digital platforms. You can find your favorite one via pennanbrae.com/music
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- .: Nova MUSIC blog // September 2022