​James Felice (from the album The Little Ones

​James Felice (from the album The Little Ones

​James Felice (from the album The Little Ones available on Million Stars Records) (by Danny McCloskey)
When entering unfamiliar territory conversations may be challenging. For his debut, James Felice (The Felice Brothers) takes the route of many fellow humans, and delivers a “Pick Up Line” as he walks into The Little Ones, his recent release. The sonics for the first cut on The Little Ones is a collection of accents, allowed a freeform existence courtesy of a constantly clicking beat. Backed with just a piano, James Felice begins the tale of “More Than a Pet, Less Than a Friend” as he creates rhythms with accordion huffs and puffs to introduce “The Giantess”, crosses an assured groove with “My Enemies”, and drifts in freefall on an echoed piano reverie that floats like a dream through “Our Own Light”.
As a way of intro-ing the stories and humans lining the walls of The Little Ones, the press release describes the tracks that stretch over the album as ‘little stories about little people up against the enormity of the universe and the hideous length of eternal time, and the endless confusions of love and being loved’. Regarding the catalyst for the words and music, James Felice shared that ‘I wrote this record over the course of a summer, mostly in an unfinished attic. It was so hot up there I could only work at night. I had to sing softly, so as to not wake the people sleeping below me. And so, night after night, I would sing softly and sweat prodigiously in my stupidly hot attic, and these characters would somehow emerge and I would try to write songs about them’. The results of the task the songwriter set for himself is captured in The Little Ones.  A sad story of loss is carried on a marching rhythm in “Barry’s Blues” as a flurry of piano notes cascade like raining on a windowpane for “OK Now” while The Little Ones makes claims (“Made for This”) and searches for answers (“My Garden”), making an exit when James Felice relates the tale of “Tiny Man”. (by Danny McCloskey)
 
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