From the album “With Voices” available January 18, 2019 from Western Vinyl. “With Voices” is the newest recording by Dutch composer Rutger Zuydervelt under the moniker Machinefabriek. True to its title, the album’s eight pieces exhibit Zuydervelt’s use of cassette recorders, tone generators, radios, synths, and other hifi curio to construct bewildering aural architecture around…
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[streaming] Chloe March – Snow Bird
“Snow Bird” is the new single by English ambient-pop artist Chloe March. Following on from her 2017 solo release “Blood-Red Spark“, and her recent collaboration with labelmate Todd Tobias, “Amialluma“, ‘Snow Bird’ is a luminous winter song, gently hypnotic and hopeful. The track melds dream pop and found sounds of birdsong to create a crisply…
[streaming] Living Hour – Bottom Step
“Bottom Step” is the first track out of the upcoming album “Softer Faces”, out March 1st, 2019 via Kanine Records. Everything about Winnipeg’s Living Hour has been expanding since their humble basement beginnings in 2015. What started with dreamy love songs inspired by the cinematic sky of their hometown has transformed into even more sprawling…
[streaming] Alaskan Tapes – The Ocean No Longer Wants Us
Final and title track of the new E.P. by Alaskan Tapes, featuring additional vocals by Chantal Ouellette and Adam London (Bedroom). Alaskan Tapes is an Ambient music project based in Toronto, Canada. The outfit is the brainchild of composer Brady Kendall, who set out to explore different approaches and craft songs the aren’t only about…
[streaming] Palm Springs – I’m A Ghost
Taken from “Palm Springs & Friends”, s released on Tender Collection, November 20th 2018. Palm Springs remains as a solo song-writing project for Erica Dunn who, on this release, employs the help of two long time companions Paul Pirie and Steph Hughes. The bulk of the tape was recorded at NYHED studios in the Lower…
[streaming] Gary Olson – The Old Twin
This is the solo-debut 7″ by the great Gary Olson of The Ladybug Transistor. He’s also famous for his work as a producer for Nick Garrie, The Essex Green, Crystal Stilts, … just to name a few … His 7″ “The Old Twin/All Points North” (KUS 018) includes two beautiful popsongs and is a collaboration…
[streaming] Willard Grant Conspiracy – Untethered
“Untethered” is the final recordings made by Willard Grant Conspiracy. The final recordings made by Robert Fisher and his band before his untimely death, brought about by cancer, on February 12th 2017. The recordings were made before he died but the tapes have only recently been dusted down and brought to life with the care…
[streaming] Allysen Callery – November Man
Allysen Callery is self taught folk artist from Rhode Island, USA , her vocal delivery recalls the haunting style of the late 60′s early 70′s British Folk Revival. In her own words, here’s the story behind the new song “November Man”, available for free download through her Soundcloud page: “I was driving home last November from…
[streaming] Alula Down – Master Kilby
Taken from the album “Homespun”, the new album by Alula Down, out November 7th. Alula Down is an experiment in folk song and minimalism, with voice and with instruments made of wood & reeds. It is the duo project of Mark Waters & Kate Gathercole, longtime players in Heed the Thunder, Sproatly Smith, Vaginapocalypse and…
[streaming] Frederik Kinbom – Crystal Fruit Bowl
Taken from “Songs For Lap Steel And Harmonium”, the new solo album from Berlin-based Swedish lap steel player, singer and songwriter Fredrik Kinbom (Sarah Blasko, Alberta Cross, Gemma Ray, Gurrumul), released by Sotones Records on 9 November 2018. Since his acclaimed last solo effort “Oil” (Capstan Records, 2014), Fredrik Kinbom has been busy with other…
[streaming] Marty Moran – Refugee Song
“Refugee Song” is taken from “Dissent: Midterm Protest Songs Benefiting the ACLU”, a collection of folk protest songs, dealing with certain current events, by Marty Moran of Loose Freight band. The album is not anti-American or anti-Republican or anti-conservative or anti-Russian. It is squarely anti-Trump, as well as any other small-hearted bully that uses stolen…
[streaming] Harĕhaas – Fake China
“Nine chords and the (partisan) truth. Delicate acoustic fiddling set to the jagged softness of otherwordly phrase smithing.” Harĕhaas is the alter ego through which Petrovitsj Mys lets loose his truths and untruths, ardor and venom, awareness and ignorance, fear and calm. Harĕhaas’s core aim is attempting to whisper its truths and untruths straight into…
[streaming] Albosel – I Just Want You To Be Happy
“I Just Want You To Be Happy” is the closing track of the three-songs E.P. “The Earths An Egg, Soon It Will Hatch”, available as diital name your price download via Bandcamp. Albosel is a bedroom-ambient-folk trio from Nottingham, that has already released the “Making, Nothing” E.P. in 2015 and the “Container” E.P. in 2016….
[streaming] Lake Ruth | Pale Lights split 7″
The idea behind this 7″ is that both bands cover each other’s song. The wonderful Lake Ruth from New York have recorded the Pale Lights song “Only An Ocean” with the sound artist Listening Center. It’s a great mixture of Baroque & Chamber Pop with references to Stereolab, Broadcast or ’60s Library Music. Their good…
[streaming] Twain – Young God (Gotta Lotta Feeling)
“Young God (gotta lotta feeling)” is the first single from the Twain release 2 E.P.s due January 25, 2019 via Keeled Scales. 2 E.P.s is a 12″ double E.P. The first side, “New Miami Sound,” consists of unreleased material from the “Rare Feeling” album sessions. The second side, “Alternator,” is an intimate recording of singer…
[streaming] Elena Setién – Another Kind Of Revolution
Basque multi-instrumentalist Elena Setién’s Thrill Jockey debut “Another Kind Of Revolution” will be released on 15 February 2019. Setién’s declarative gestures both musically and lyrically breathe life into her expressive allegories. Her careful arrangements are direct and affecting, her smooth vocals inviting with their warmth. Setién’s creative choices bely her independent spirit and the results…
[streaming] Sive – Quietly
New single by Sive, released October 19th 2018 on Veta Records. Sive is a songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist with a voice that “sweeps along displaying folk and jazz nuances with the confidence of one who knows” (Eamon Carr, The Herald). Her unique sound weaves together her love for the craft of songwriting with her enthusiasm…
[streaming] Lisa/Liza – The Matador Pt 2
On November 30, Orindal Records will release “Momentary Glance”, the new album by Portland, Maine psych folk singer/songwriter/guitarist Lisa/Liza. “Momentary Glance” is the follow-up to Lisa/Liza’s critically revered, home-recorded, solo acoustic debut LP, “Deserts of Youth” (Orindal, 2016). Momentary Glance was recorded & mixed by Efrim Manuel Menuck (of Godspeed You! Black Emperor & Thee…
[streaming] The Color Waves – People End Up Everywhere
Taken from forthcoming Color Waves album. The Color Waves are a long-distance home-recording project between Garry Hoggan, Alison Eales and Jason Sweeney. They write songs about love, loss and lobotomy, inspired by Galaxie 500, The Go-Betweens, Prince, Prefab Sprout, Strawberry Switchblade, Serge Gainsbourg. http://www.thecolorwaves.com/
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