Kelley Stoltz - Ah! (etc)

Released 11th December 2020.

I was guzzling wine at my favorite bar in San Francisco, the Rite Spot, and the entertainment that night was some local opera singers singing along with a big video screen showing a collage of various operatic moments with subtitles. One particular subtitle, Ah!-(etc) made me laugh, I thought it was a perfect description of life - the joy of existence against the etcetera of it all, the struggle. With a heavy head of rose it seemed like ecstatic poetry! I scribbled it on a napkin and thought it might make a good title for something And so the mystery behind the title of Kelley Stoltz new record is solved. Less of a mystery is the quality contained therein after 12 self-titled releases and a several more under pseudonyms, Stoltz is the word for one-man-band-home-recording-pop-songs of idiosyncratic character. A quick follow up to his more power pop and pub rock LP only Hard Feelings offering in the summer, Ah-(etc) fi