For those unaware, keyboardist/songwriter Neal Rosner is releasing a rare album entitled Love Isn’t The Answer. As a limited edition, this album was first released 1999, but only recently released to stores via DistroKid in 2024.

Neal plays all instruments except guitar, which is played by Marty Mayer. Thus he plays keyboard percussion and drum machine midi with Korg 01W.

He sings lead and backup vocals and Barbara Rosner is on backup vocals and spoken word. Rae Nimeh, a brilliant engineer, who did early work with Disturbed, also worked on the album.

1. Love Isn’t the Answer
2. Joanna
3. Blame Me
4. Oblivion
5. Calls
6. Little Egypt
7. Callyda
8. Flagpole
9. Graduation Day
8. The Ballad of Danny T
9. Dejame Quedarme
10. Let Me Stay
11. Dios Bendiga Las Chicas
12. God Bless the Ladies

The album opens with a kind of vibrantly skewed steel drums/techno rhythm on the titular Love Isn’t the Answer and the calypso-hued Joanna and then we get brought forth the personal-to-him Blame Me (which opens with the spoken word based on a phone message from his very pissed off first wife!), the synth-skewed rocker Oblivion, before we are presented with a short series of mating calls within the quick Calls, the funkily grooved thigh slapper Little Egypt, and then he uses his Korg 01W to perfection on the sonic instrumental Callyda.

Along next is the energized rocker Flagpole and the enthusiastic Americana rock of Graduation Day and they are in turn backed by the impassioned story of a homeless person in the old Chicago Skid Row in The Ballad of Danny T and then come both Spanish / English versions of the languishing Dejame Quedarme / Let Me Stay, before they are in turn backed by Spanish / English versions of the synth-imbibed, mid-tempo cuts Dios Bendiga Las Chicas / God Bless the Ladies.

“I am a 72 y/o soon to be retired Radiologist. Music is my antidepressant therapy. Something I just have to do. Listening to music is an intimate communication with the artist’s brain. It gives a strange sense of immortality.” – Neal Rosner.

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