For those not in the know, Austin Music Award-nominated multi-instrumental musician, performer, and composer, Carolyn Trowbridge is an energetic, multifaceted artist. Her innovative fluency with her craft creates sonic experiences, fueled by a zealous passion for all things “sound”.

Vibraphonist and multi-instrumentalist Carolyn Trowbridge is a vibrant force in Austin’s music scene — as a performer, studio musician, composer, and educator. Hailed by the Austin Chronicle as a “vibraphone sorceress,” she moves fluidly across genres, performing with rock bands, Afrobeat ensembles, avant-garde jazz groups, mainstream vocalists, and classical ensembles.

Duchess of Sheba is the first single off Carolyn Trowbridge’s album, Found Memories. Inspired by elements of Ethio-jazz and Exotica, “Duchess of Sheba” creates a captivating, hypnotic groove. The modal melodies of vibraphone and flute soar over the dynamic pulse of acoustic guitar, bass, and drums.

Joining Carolyn within this exciting core quartet are Bryan Sunderman (guitar), Mario Castellanos (bass) and Nick Tozzo (drums/percussion), and lest we forget to mention special appearances by flutist Alex Coke, harpist Elaine Barber, tenor saxophonist Jason Frey and vocalist Caitlin Palmer.

1. Thank You For the Memories, Thank You For the Laughs
2. Duchess of Sheba
3. Chopin’s Séance
4. Grackle Vs. Tacotarian
5. The Lonely Frost Flower
6. Tookey’s Engine
7. Turtle Heart
8. The Old Woman Who Never Grew Older
9. Physalia’s Journey
10. Onward

On what is a masterfully sculpted debut album from educator Carolyn Trowbridge, one where she rather emphatically creates a wondrous mood-swinging extravaganza for us to behold, she opens Found Memories on the sparkling, luxuriously resonant Thank You For the Memories, Thank You For the Laughs and then brings us the alluringly mystical ambiance of Duchess of Sheba, the textural alluring Chopin’s Séance, and both the fervently paced Grackle Vs. Tacotarian and the languishing beauty of The Lonely Frost Flower.

Along next is the joyfully spirited Tookey’s Engine and the low slung, upright bass-led, rhythmically melodic gem Turtle Heart, and they are in turn backed seamlessly by the atmospheric, gently-charged The Old Woman Who Never Grew Older and the impassioned balladry of Physalia’s Journey, the set coming to an all too soon close on the all-encompassing elegance of Onward.