“Snowy Beach” is a journal entry documenting a trip through America, a blotter paper of contradictions: snowy beaches, cold shoulders.

“These times are changing / made it to a Snowy Beach / relearned who Im supposed to be.”

Oakland based poet/ producer/ songwriter James Wavey carefully selects from jazz, live instruments, California soul samples to Turkish down beat groves a backdrop for revolutionary poetry to shine on, shine on, shine on.

The tracks for “Snowy Beach” stand alone as they stand together, a hot body of work forged on an increasingly incoherent planet.

Central to this effort, Wavey seems to build a strong foundation on contradictions and obscurities Snowy Beach is where I stake my claim.