NAVIGATOR by MVM is a different voyage for Dr. Martin Jack Rosenblum, Purveyor of Bard Rock. Martin Jack as a singer/songwriter has fronted bands such as Blues Riders and Holy Ranger in the eighties, Tribal Frontier and Spirit Farm in the nineties, and was a solo traditionalist during the Folk/Blues Revival in the sixties and in a Jug band, Morning Valley, and a Blues band, Regulators. In the fifties, he was a solo Rockabilly performer, tagging on with numerous crazed bands leading the new music. Through the late sixties into the later eighties he published many books of poetry. MVM brings it all together and is not fronted by Martin Jack nor does he take a solo attitude. NAVIGATOR is a collaborative album, a first for Dr. Martin Jack, with Victor DeLorenzo (of the Violent Femmes) and Malachi DeLorenzo (who is Victor's son and a musician/recordist wizard). All of the songs on NAVIGATOR come from a triad vision. It is the first album Martin Jack has not done with a front or solo sensibility and the brotherhood of Victor and Malachi float the verbal and melodic Martin Jack contributory craft down sonic rapids.
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