Geminii DRAGON

Blues on Steriods!!! From the murky bayous of Louisiana, comes a fresh face to the Blues music scene. A vocal dynamo GeminiiDRAGON has channeled her love for the late 60s era and 70s blues and AOR bands/artists the likes of Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Albert King, Freddie King, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Koko Taylor, Jimi Hendrix, ZZ Top, Janis Joplin, Fleetwood Mac, Cream and Led Zeppelin and the super group Arc Angels , to name a few, into a ferocious mix of blues rock soul….

Her inherited talent and love of an eclectic collage of music from her parents that spans several decades, and genres can be heard and felt in her voice and through her lyrics.

A chance meeting with producer, guitarist and partner Christian Simeon has formed the latest chapter in her music quest. In this collaboration, with his help and influence she has achieved a 3rd project that she feels is the next step in her musical maturation.

Her 2 debut singles ‘Like It Or Not’ and ‘ A Storm Is A Comin” back in 2021 quickly built a heavy buzz in the Blues Community.

She quickly responded with the release of her debut Album “FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE” and the infectious single “Just The Way It Is”. In record time she would return to the studio and bless us with her sophomore album “EQUINOX”, that further expanded her musical talents and opened up her fanbase to her sound with the single “BALLAD OF WILLIE MAE & GEORGE” and now she embarks on her third album ‘3’. It would seem that the skies are the limit to her journey.

Her subsequent 3rd album affectionately tiled “3” was a jaunt into new territory that followed a almost classic rock feel but always leaving its foot deep in the BLUES.

Now we arrive at album number 4. The amazing collection entitled MOONLIGHT, MOVIN’ & GROOVIN’.

Geminii’s powerful and unique, vocals really draw my attention. For this album Washington D.C.-area guitarist Linwood Taylor is brought onboard to not only play, but help co-write each of the songs with GeminiDRAGON and co-producer/guitarist Christian Simeon.

The record opens with “Blues is So Good”, which also serves as the first single released off this album. With a buttery bassline, searing guitar licks, and fearless vocals, the song makes a perfect companion piece to Little Milton’s “The Blues is Alright”. Guitarist Santiago-Martín Chalchihuicueyatl Ortega (Santiago and The Signifiers) steps in as a guest guitarist for “Pressure” and “Rainy Wednesday”. The rich keyboard and horn-infused landscape of “Pressure” hits me like the power-R&B songs which was one of the things I dug about the Eighties. Wait two days after “Blue Monday” and one finds themselves sitting smack dab in the middle of terrifically blues-soaked “Rainy Wednesday”. An infectious intro and driving rhythm instantly pull me in to the world of the unscrupulous “Mr. Slip & Slide Man”.

I love the approach GeminiiDRAGON takes with this song as they seem to walk a line between the houses of Stax and Muscle Shoals. The album goes into full-on Mississippi Delta Blues territory when harmonica-extraordinaire Julia Dill steps in for two songs. “Blues Party” instantly puts a smile on my face as I lean into this cookin’, rip-roaring performance. And then “Juke Joint Jumpin’” brings back a flood of wonderful memories of jukin’ down in Clarksdale, Mississippi with right-on descriptions of liquor flowing, windows shaking, and good times. It’s a great song.

With a base of blues at the core, GeminiiDRAGON’s Moonlight Movin’ & Groovin’ is fortified with touches of funk and rock. It certainly makes for a delightful record which is highly conductive to getting one’s jam on.