Friday Listening
“I wrote ‘Open Source’ on my mother’s baby grand piano,” Collin “Calmer” Palmer explains. “That set the tone for what was to become the Past Is Present EP.” Incidentally, the artist’s mother was more involved in his creative nurturing than that—as a child in Pennsylvania’s Andrew Wyeth country, Palmer accompanied her at the same piano, where she captivated him with selections from the songbooks of Claude Debussy, Bach, and more. Read more of my 2009 feature on Calmer at PopMatters.
