Alex Mitnick is an Emmy Award-winning children’s entertainer and frontman for Alex & The Kaleidoscope, an interactive music entertainment brand designed for those four to eight years of age. Get On Board!, <\/i>Alex & The Kaleidoscope’s fourth album, invites kids to take in and honor the world they reside in. And it’s not hard to do just that here by singing along to songs about vegetables, animals, and even recycling.<\/p>\n
Musically, Get On Board! <\/i>is all over the board, with the Southern anthemic rock and harmonicas of \u201cOutside,\u201d which is later complemented by the banjo and bluegrass influences of \u201cPeach Tree\u201d and further punctuated by the country shuffling of the title track \u201cGet On Board.\u201d The older crowd will certainly recognize influences from The Beach Boys or The Everly Brothers, but many surprises exist here. For instance, \u201cOh, Won’t You Sit Down\u201d finds the band at a rowdy, spiritual moment. \u201cInsect Tourists,\u201d one of the best selections here, appropriately starts out with crickets chirping before moving into an eclectic affair of lush, international influences. <\/p>\n
Alex is on board with education through song, especially the vegetable talk in \u201cVegetable Garden Town\u201d and the ’70s funk of \u201cRecycle\u201d that will hopefully get young kids interested in recycling and\/or reusing. But of course, sometimes the youngsters just want to sing along to not so serious topics, and \u201cChoo Choo\u201d lets them do just that about trains. <\/p>\n
The strongest selections here are the layered, textured offerings, such as the soulful and romantic \u201cTell Me A Story.\u201d While the music seems ideal for a romantic evening, the wordplay is about caterpillars and bears \u2013 though this doesn’t detract from the talented musicianship. Near the end, \u201cLeading The Way\u201d is another high point, a laidback, island flavored song that sounds tropical.<\/p>\n
It’s easy to see why Mitnick has won 15+ national awards. The guy can write songs that are hard to forget and easy to play repeatedly. While this album is really directed at a niche audience, there’s little doubt that it will appeal to everyone in some fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":33024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[9949],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-44807","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-alex-the-kaleidoscope","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44807"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44807"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}