The Quiet One

Columbus music and culture

A Kim Pensyl Christmas

You often hear musicians talk about how seeing The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show flipped a switch and set their musical lives in motion. For Kim Pensyl , the moment came a little differently. He saw Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass on television , performing songs like “The Lonely Bull,” “Spanish Flea,” and “Mexican Shuffle” in a bullring. It was colorful, theatrical, and evocative—and it inspired him. Pensyl was hooked, specifically on the trumpet, and maybe on the idea

Drew Layman

Dec 26, 20255 min read

Omnipop - Butterfly

Jeff Ciampa ’s reputation in Columbus has always been tied to his playing—the taste, the tone, the fluency of it. But what’s less widely acknowledged is how sharp his songwriting and production instincts are. Twenty-five years after the brilliant and ambitious My Imagined Life With Alfred Moore , Ciampa and his co-conspirators in Omnipop quietly released the beautiful, otherworldly Butterfly —a record that feels like both a continuation and a culmination of a lifetime spent

Drew Layman

Dec 12, 202511 min read

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