There is nothing better than when you don’t have to lie to your artist friends and tell them that their work is great when it is not. I tend to get a lot of random free cd’s from friends and artists at networking events and shows, and a good portion of them get one listen and then head to the pile of death in my living room, never to be played again.

This was not the case with a Curtain Society sampler disc that I was given by my friend and Curtain Society drummer Duncan Arsenault a few months back at one of our local networking mixers. I threw it in the cd player on the way home, and immediately the music stood out as being well produced, well written, and generally better than almost all of the other local stuff I had heard previously. The sampler remains in my car still, and gets at least a full play each week.

Knowing Duncan, this wasn’t surprising, as I have come to know him as nothing if not dedicated and passionate about the things he creates in the music and art world. He and the others in the Curtain Society approach the business of making music in a way that is unmatched locally, and in many ways probably unmatched nationally when it comes to operating as a small band in a small market like Worcester.

One thing Duncan and the Curtain Society do well is music licensing. Recently, songs from their upcoming album have made it into episodes of both The Young The Restless and One Life To Live, which seems pretty cool. Granted, the most recent clip plays relatively softly in the background of the scene, but it is still pretty impressive in my opinion.

Be sure and grab their new album coming this summer, you won’t likely be disappointed.