Israel Nash - Topaz
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Very well written songs
Strong lyrics
Great atmosphere with very wide instrumentation
Another interesting artist on Flyctory.com: Israel Nash is doing rock with an Americana touch. He grew his fanbase over the last two decades and already toured Europe. On 12th March 2021, he will release his new album, Topaz . Here are my thoughts about it.
Israel Nash – About The Artist
Israel Nash Gripka is a rock and Americana artist born in 1981. He is originally from Missouri and started to perform in New York City clubs from the mid-2000’s onwards. In 2009, his popularity grew sufficiently so that he released his debut album New York Town independently. He moved to Dripping Springs, Texas, just West of Austin, and stayed in that state until now. H is regularly releasing music – his latest three publications were the album Lifted (2018), the EP Topaz in 2019 and a live album, Across The Water, Live in Europe in 2020.
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Israel Nash – Topaz – Track by Track
The ten song album lasts 45 minutes.
1. Dividing Lines
Rather slow with a very present voice – Diving Lines is definitely a moderate beginning of the Topaz album. The chorus has quite some power – and the song is present all the time. A good listen with a classic rock and blues touch.
Dividing lines
They just come between us baby
Love runs and hides
Every time it’s around
2. Closer
Closer is the first out of four song, which have been released before the album. The atmosphere of song is very similar to the opener at the beginning, when there is majorly the acoustic guitar, the intense voice by Israel Nash and some drums. Over the whole time of the 5:34 minute song, you have more instrumental elements like the harmonica. Overall, the song thus feels more powerful than the first one.
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3. Down In The Country
The third song, Down In The Country, is very different to the two openers. There are brass sounds, electric guitars. The song is not too pushy, it still creates a gentle style, but it uses a nice variety of sounds, which gives it a bluesy, sometimes almost symphonic touch. Great listen.
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4. Southern Coasts
The lyrics sheet for the 3:37 minute song comes solely comes with ten lines of verses. Southern Coasts is thus a very special one again, getting its power and its presence a lot from the backing instruments. But still, Nash’s vocals add their flavor. Really nice composition.
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5. Stay
Baby won’t you take me
From this place that I fell in
You know the place I’m in
Lately it’s been crazy
Oh I’m here to there
Am I getting anywhere
Stay almost feels like early 1980’s pop-rock to me. It has a groove like you find on some Bee Gees tracks (but there are no falsetto voices in here. Nice groove.
6. Canyonheart
My heart is a canyon
The flashing flood won’t drown you out
You can heart it when you shout
All my love is coming down
It’s only just coming around
Again, this song feels so simple, so limited. The drums are so slow that the drummer is likely be bored, isn’t he? No, he can’t – because Israel Nash is doing just right. Another song which almost feels majestic to me. Slow rock with an Americana touch – would love to listen to Canhonheart in a small Texas town bar – the perfect atmopshere for this sound.
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7. Indiana
While the harmonica introduced the listener to Canyonheart , Indiana comes with brass sounds again. Very cool sound – the trumpets give a really powerful rock music feeling. Catchy melody as well.
8. Howling Wind
The wind was howling through the night
Breaking bones and stealing light
It came whipping through my trees
Kicking dust and striggin leaves
It was hot upon my back
I lost my head and lost my hat
Howling Wind – which really comes with wind sounds in the background – is coming with such a strong presence, you just have to listen. Sometimes, the sound of the song is almost frightening to me.
9. Sutherland Springs
In Sutherland Springs , Israel Nash reminds of the Sutherland Springs Church Shooting.
Sunday morning won’t be the same
For Wilson country a stone’s throw away
They prayed for rain but the steel came on down
How many will they keep putting in the ground
Sutherland Texas you’re on my mind
You’re heart is aching and so is mine
Empty answers are all you’ll find
Sutherland Texas you’re on my mind
To me, this is the most breathtaking and impressive song.
10. Pressure
Pressure includes the F-word, so that the song will come with the Explicit label. Nash recorded the song during quarantine as a social critics. The song comes with a touch of soul and blues and is thus an impressive closing of the album.
Israel Nash – Topaz – Spotify
Here is the album on Spotify:
Israel Nash – Topaz – My View
Israel Nash comes with a really cool and wide rock and Americana sound. I just enjoyed to listen to his songs during the review – the last two ones give a very powerful and present finish. Nonetheless, there are also songs like Southern Coasts or Canyonheart , which are impressive in a very different way. If you like slow Americana rock with good lyrics, Topaz is definitely a good option for you.
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I feel it is always amazing to listen to music from acts who started to write musical history quite long ...
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The German rock band Antiheld grew quite a lot during the last years and established in the German music scene ...
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Though a lot of Song which shaped me have been recorded in the 1980's and 1990's, I want to move ...
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Croatian folk-rock with a metal touch? Sounds quite interesting, doesn't it? And, indeed, when I scanned one of the music ...
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Mr. Big meets Iron Maiden - or at least one member each of their former lineups. On 26th March 2021, ...
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A band who wants to keep rock'n'roll alive - these kind of artists are always very welcome on Flyctory.com. When ...
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It has been quite amazing for me to read that The Bitter Truth is only the fifth studio album by the ...
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This release is for the guitar lovers. As Everything Unfolds is a band from Southern England, which has developed very ...
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After ten years of band history, The Blue Stories release their second album on 19th March 2021. After the blues ...
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Brazilian music is much more than samba. The rock and metal scene has quite some bands which made it big ...
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Selig is one of the most famous German rock bands. They started publlishing music in 1993. On 12th March 2021, ...
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Alphaville, Ultravox and Mike & The Mechanics on one album? Okay, I have to give in that neither of the ...
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A young female British rock artist, born in the 1990's, who states that she loves 1980's rock? Feels like a ...
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Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night - the two masterminds behind the US folk-rock band Blackmore's Night, are indeed big names ...
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Some new punk rock on Flyctory.com - and this time it is even a debut album: due to my connections ...
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Some new tunes by A Day To Remember: the US rockers released You're Welcome, their latest album, on 5th March ...
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Interesting music from Australia: one of the new releases as of 5th March 2021 I ran into is The Night, the ...
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Some things take some time to get really good. If you think about Scotland and about something already having a ...
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Quite some interesting rock music to be released on 26th February 2021. I originally wanted to start my reviews of ...
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Album #18 by Bonnie Tyler. I was really looking forward to hear new stuff by the Welsh characteristic rock voice, ...
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Nino de Angelo is one of my favorite German artists. I will definitely tell you about a very special concert ...
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Alice Cooper is truly a rock music legend. On 26th February 2021, he released his 21st album Detroit Stories. I have ...
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Bones Owens already worked with really big names of the business and has released two EPs so far. Nonetheless, seven ...
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I love to scan music and run into interesting artist. Ally Venable definitely fits into this category. At the age ...
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Undoubtedly, Munich Olympic Tower is one of the iconic buildings of the Bavarian city. Even though the tower is located ...
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When I ran into the debut album by Ben Rice, Future Pretend, I initially thought he is a blues musician ...
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Alice Cooper, Thin Lizzy, Black Star Riders - Damon Johnson has indeed worked with some of the really big names ...
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Gronau in the Münsterland region in Western Germany calls itself the "Music City". The some 50,000 inhabitant town is definitely not the ...
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While so far the only German dialect I feature on Flyctory.com is Kölsch, the lovely way to speak in my ...
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I enjoy the collaboration with promotion agencies, which feed Flyctory.com with new music. The key reason for that is that ...
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Jack McBannon does a quite interesting and versatile fusion of different Americana music styles. Being on stage for twenty years ...
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The Tobacco Rd Band are known for their powerful country rock sound and inspiring love songs. On 12th February 2021, ...
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In my Songs Of My Life section, I try to introduce you with very different songs, which influenced me during my ...
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I enjoy to present German acts as part of my media reviews - and even more if they are successful ...
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Happy Birthday, Michael Schenker - some three weeks after the German rock legend turned 65 years, he is back with ...
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Gehst Du mit mir unter - "Are you drowning with me" is the album title of a new German music project ...
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The Dead Daisies are a very interesting band, which has been founded in the Southern Hemisphere in Australia and New ...
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After I interrupted my "regular" series of Songs of My Life for the Christmas edition with Tiny Tim, the first posting ...
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292 Media Review postings - looking into new music (and a few other) releases was definitely some sort of core ...
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2020 is about to come to an end - and the last three posting of the years re about to ...
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The Lovell sisters and their band Larkin Poe have been become a well reputed name in the US music business ...
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Indie rock made in British Columbia - Yukon Blonde are part of the Canadian music scene for 15 years already ...
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Dirk Busch's 1980's song Du bist keine Mona List would be a perfect candidate for my new Songs of my Life category ...
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Australian weekend on Flyctory.com: after I already reviewed the albums by Kylie Minogue and Caitlyn Shadbolt, the third release from ...
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Radio, Radio - I have a very special relation to this Elvis Costello classic: whenever something goes completely wrong at a ...
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Joe Bonamassa meets Abbey Road studios? This definitely sounds like an interesting co-production of two legendary parts of music history! ...
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Low Cut Connie became quite a darling of the critics during the last decade. Their re-intertpretation of Rock'n'Roll attracted quite ...
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From street music to the tops of the German charts - Saltatio Mortis have taken the very tough route to ...
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All five albums of the 2010's of the US folk rock band Dawes made it to the US overall album ...
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Borlänge - I will always combine that city with the 1993 German Tennis Davis Cup semifinal defeat against Sweden. Michael ...
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Whenever big names of the music business release new music, there are two scenarios: they either still do great music ...
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While scanning the album releases as of 10th July 2020, I ran into Lighter by Donna Missal. I have to admit ...
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Neil Young - one of the very big names in music business. Whenever Young is releasing new music or a ...
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Beyond The Black got some additional focus in Germany when their lead singer Jennifer Haben joined the popular TV format Sing ...
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Not just due to being the only popular music artist who ever received the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bob Dylan ...
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Not just in regards of the third day of my time in California, but also for the whole trip following ...
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