In between stints on Broadway and filming movies with big name stars, modern Renaissance man Caleb Eberhardt continues to find time to make music. The San Francisco-raised multihyphenate, who performs music under the name Rosehardt, shared his latest album on Friday (May 10), the world gets smaller each day it seems to shrink, via VERO Music.
At 14 songs and 52 minutes, it’s yet another entry into a growing (not shrinking!) body of impressive work. Rosehardt collaborated with Space People and Joy Morales on production, deftly blending funk, R&B, and pop influences into a cohesive, smooth collection of music that just sounds cool. On album opener “i don’t have much time,” Rosehardt builds from an airy, sparse instrumentation to a full-on head-bobbing synthscape; by the time closing track “Tell Me How You Fight the Wilderness Alone” wraps up, the album has gone on a full-circle journey across genres to return to that funk-tinged guitar.
To Rosehardt, the inspiration for the work came form the passing of time.
“The specific relationships that inspired some of these songs were instrumental in helping me understand how my 30s were going to differ vastly from my 20s, just in perception alone,” he says. “Perception of the world. Everything felt as though it was preparing to crumble, yet your thirties are the time everyone tends to say things sort of magically come together.”
While Rosehardt doesn’t have any shows coming up that Boston audiences can prepare for, the world gets smaller each day it seems to shrink is a rich listen worth dissecting. Dive in: