2025 CD: Sea Salt and Sawdust

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Sea Salt and Sawdust

Marian Mastrorilli

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Six unique songs take us through beginnings and endings, joy and sorrow, summer and winter. Genre: acoustic rock/modern folk, in the vein of Dar Williams, Kacey Musgraves, Ben Folds, Jill Sobule, Billie Eilish, The Read more

Six unique songs take us through beginnings and endings, joy and sorrow, summer and winter. Genre: acoustic rock/modern folk, in the vein of Dar Williams, Kacey Musgraves, Ben Folds, Jill Sobule, Billie Eilish, The Decemberists. Taken from a line in A Shore Thing (My Jersey Shore), “sea salt and sawdust scent the air,” the CD title alludes to Thomas Edison’s adage, “Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration.” Sea salt represents the inspiration, i.e. the beach. It also provides seasoning, and it preserves. Sawdust represents the work that went into producing this collection. Its guiding message: Embrace the sweet, erase the bitter!

Produced by Marian Mastrorilli. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Kevin Kelly at The Workshoppe East, Huntington, NY December 2021 - December 2024.

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“The singer-songwriter Marian Mastrorilli doesn’t shy away from melodies and harmonies across these moody and playful folk songs. The soft yet upbeat “Begin” is indeed at the beginning, where both folk and rock ideas welcome warm piano, and “Cardinal In The Snow” follows with cozy balladry, where pretty singing is met with precise acoustic guitar. “Beach Musings” and “Patience” land in the middle. The former recruits violin and cello alongside the quick climate, while the latter showcases a romantic spirit via the poetic singing and emotive guitar. Landing close to the end, “A Shore Thing (My Jersey Shore)” touches on indie-rock ideas in a fuller moment of timeless songwriting, and “Angels (Angel In Transition)” exits with a sublime dreaminess that’s touching and even flirts with alt-country nods. Mastrorilli’s formula is very diverse and at different points might bring to mind R.E.M., Billie Eilish, The Decemberists or Ben Folds, where each song resonates with timelessness and grace. ” - Tom Haugen

— Take Effect Reviews