PETER SALETT - IN THE OCEANS OF THE STARS

By R. O'DONNELL
GENRE
FOLK
PUBLISHER
DUSTY SHOES MUSIC

Peter Salett is a very gifted musician. He has written, scored, and performed multiple songs for such films as Forgetting Sarah Marshall, The Ten, Down in the Valley, The Baxter, The Maldonado Miracle, Wet Hot American Summer, Keeping the Faith, and the soon to be released documentary 21 Below. Directors love him because his music compliments and enhances their visions. People like listening to him because his sound is so profound, intricate, and dreamy, a “play it again, Sam,” over and over only to find something you missed listening to it the fifth or sixth time around.

His most recent fifth CD offering, In The Oceans Of The Stars, is a stellar achievement that doesn’t disappoint. Whether it’s the oh-so melancholy ethereal ride of "Magic Hour," the tender sway of "Far, Far Away," a timeless folk duet "Between the Dark and the Light" (thank you Amy Miles,) or the gentle acoustic gem "Sunshine," song after luscious song is a mini-picture show inside your head. It’s just so damn cinematic. This is a headphones secure, do not disturb listening experience to clear the mind of all the daily chatter that plagues us. For my jaded, tired ass, I’m so obliged to simply and so completely "Fly Sparrow Fly" away with it. I think we all deserve that, and Peter Salett knows that just as well. I picture him composing these haunting American stories in his head while walking in the rain down a gritty Manhattan street, and then while lying on his back in a field of wheat next to an old trestle tracks, a solitary train whistle echoing up above.

I notice a lot of name comparisons–which happens with true indefinable talent–everyone from American folk/roots pop singer-songwriter Josh Rouse to Academy Award–winning songwriter, singer and pianist Randy Newman, that I just smile and think, no, no, no… Peter Salett. That’s it. Its just time to give the man his due. Salett is just so boldly original that you don’t want it to ever go away. The traditional comparisons to other more recognizable talents only helps secure that hope. But whatever the mainstream press is comparing him to, you might want to start by getting In The Oceans Of The Stars drifting through your headset as fast as iTunes will allow you to download it. You’ll be happy to meet the exceptional singer/songwriter who is as he will always be "True In Time."

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THE KREEP GET’S LOST IN STEPHEN KING’S THE MIST

I read Stephen King’s The Mist on a lengthy train ride from Media, Pennsylvania (where I had delivered a trivial lecture on my latest book of poems Arsenic n’ Art,) to my lair in the city of brotherly love: Philadelphia. In short, The Mist really frightened me, as it had first-rate scares galore. It nudged, pinched, and stung my insecurities so that I had night sweats n’ nightmares for hours, days, and weeks to come. This was just a short story, dear fellow foes, you understand? Yet it held me in the grip of trepidation and woe. When it was then announced some 25 years later that award-winning film director Frank Darabont (The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption) was giving it a go, well, I booked my seat well in advance. I was pleased I did so.

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