SEABUCKTHORN – Other Other (Fluid Audio, 2020) Andy Cartwright compie un ulteriore passo verso la completa trasfigurazione di quelli che in origine erano i suoni delle corde di una chitarra acustica. Nei nove brani di “Other Other”, interamente realizzati attraverso la “preparazione” dello strumento e l’aggiunta di effetti alle vibrazioni prodotte con l’archetto, l’artista inglese…
[streaming] Juanita Stein – The Mavericks
Juanita Stein has released a new song, ‘The Mavericks’, from her upcoming third album, ‘Snapshot’, which is set for release via Nude Records on 2nd October in all formats. ‘The Mavericks’ follows the recent release of the LP’s title track, which picked up early support from the likes of Mojo, Clash and 6 Music for…
ADVANCE BASE – Live At Home (Orindal, 2020) In un periodo nel quale le registrazioni casalinghe in circolazione si sono moltiplicate, anche al di là della scelta estetica degli artisti, non sorprende che un artista come Owen Ashworth, la cui attività ventennale è stata sempre improntata a produzioni “da cameretta”, sia tornato a proporre alcune…
[video of the week] Sophie Jamieson – Forward
From the Release EP (release date December 1st 2020). Video filmed, directed & edited by Sophie Jamieson. Earlier this year, Sophie Jamieson released the Hammer EP which received a lot great feedback, now she’s back with her new track ‘Forward’. The subject matter of ‘Forward’ is about being lost, and not knowing which way to…
MICROWOLF – My Cauliflower Ears (Lost Tribe Sound, 2020)* “I can never see / anything you see I hear other voices / calling Whispering / crawling under skin Fragments of faces / forgotten“ I primi versi del brano d’apertura “Mara” rispecchiano in maniera già ben precisa i contenuti e le sensazioni che promanano da “My…
ODDFELLOW’S CASINO – Burning! Burning! (Nightjar, 2020) Ormai prossimo a celebrare il ventennale di Oddfellow’s Casino, David Bramwell aggiunge un nuovo capitolo – il settimo della serie – alla propria personale storia artistica, ancora una volta a cavallo tra musica e letteratura, nella stessa misura in cui rimane radicata nei racconti e delle tradizioni britanniche,…
[streaming] Julia Meijer – Skydda Dig
New digital single by Julia Meijer. Julia Meijer is a singer, guitarist and songwriter from Stockholm, Sweden, currently based in Oxford, UK. Having formed her band with drummer Greig Stewart (Guillemots), keyboard player and producer Sebastian Reynolds (Solo Collective), guitarist Andrew Warne (Dagga Domes) and bassist Jamie Morris, she launched her debut album, “Always Awake”,…
TWAIN – Days Of Effort And Ease (Self Released, 2020) Scorrendo le scarne note che accompagnano la pubblicazione digitale e su cassetta di “Days Of Effort And Ease”, si intuisce immediatamente la dimensione solitaria e casalinga nella quale Mat Davidson ha registrato le canzoni che formano il suo nuovo lavoro sotto l’alias Twain. I suoni…
[streaming] Dig Nitty – Palm Springs
Taken from “Reverse of Mastery”, out September 18th 2020. Many of Dig Nitty’s songs were written while Erin McGrath was working as a national park ranger, surveilling birds at the beach in the Rockaways. “Walking in a straight line while monitoring birds would free up my brain and melodies would float in,” she reflects. The…
[video of the week] David A Jaycock – The Murderous Huntsman
David. A Jaycock announces new album ‘Murder, and the Birds’, out via Triassic Tusk Records on August 24th 2020. ‘Murder, and the Birds’ is a pastoral retelling of lost songs with no lyrics and lyrics with no songs. Mostly. David, an “underground psychedelic freak-ball” and sometime collaborator of Marry Waterson, The Big Eyes Family Players…
SEA GLASS – Shifts (Where It’s At Is Where You Are, 2020)* La costellazione di artisti e di spunti stilistici gradualmente costruita da Matt Ashton intorno al collettivo aperto The Leaf Library si arricchisce di una nuova, preziosa combinazione di elementi. Nel duo Sea Glass l’eclettico songwriter e compositore inglese è affiancato dalle ovattate parti…
JASON MOLINA – Eight Gates (Secretly Canadian, 2020) Anche qualora non si fosse a conoscenza della scomparsa di Jason Molina, avvenuta da ormai sette anni, non si potrebbe fare a meno di cogliere il senso di sofferenza esistenziale sotteso alle canzoni adesso raccolte in “Eight Gates”, pur mitigato dalla sempre ispirata poetica del songwriter di…
[streaming] FOONYAP – Free and Easy Wandering
In a time of social isolation and uncertainty, one’s physicality may be constrained, but awareness remains free. This discovery of letting go and embracing the present is explored in FOONYAP’s latest single ‘Free And Easy Wandering’, the title of which was taken from a visual and performance art series at Mile Zero Dance (Edmonton, AB,…
DMITRY EVGRAFOV – Surrender (130701 / Fat Cat, 2020) Nel volgere di una manciata di dischi, Dmitry Evgrafov si è agilmente affrancato dai canoni del minimalismo neoclassico, come già dimostrato nel precedente “Comprehension Of Light” (2017). “Surrender” costituisce un passo in avanti ancor più deciso dell’artista russo verso una dimensione di compositore moderno, capace di…
[streaming] Raveloe – Abalone
Raveloe is the somewhat mysterious project of Glasgow-based songwriter, Kim Grant. Recording from the bedroom of their flat, Kim has recorded a new EP, with the help of friends from locations as diverse as Derby, Dumfries and Melbourne. The record was produced in someways as a response to the difficulties 2020 has thrown at us…
[video of the week] Julius Way – One
Taken from the upcoming album “The Husk”, out late August 2020, and released as part of the single “How Long / One”, available via https://juliusway.bandcamp.com/album/how-long-one. Julius Way is the songwriting project by Matthew Adams. It began while busking up in Aberdeen. Since then his recording locations have included a derelict ex-home for the blind with an…
COLORAMA – Chaos Wonderland (Banana & Louie, 2020)* Non conosce pause il genio instancabile di Carwyn Ellis, reduce da appena un anno dalla riuscita ibridazione gaelico-brasiliana di “Joia!” e adesso di nuovo in pista per il settimo album dei suoi Colorama. In realtà, vista la sua attitudine a esperienze artistiche sempre nuove, che l’ha condotto…
[streaming] Sam Moss – Morning Light
New digital single by Sam Moss. All proceeds from this track will go to the Urban Farming Institute of Boston – urbanfarminginstitute.org Sam Moss is a songwriter and instrumentalist based in New England. His 2018 album Neon was acclaimed by NPR and The Boston Globe. Since 2014 he has been on the road playing hundreds…
[streaming] Alexia Avina – Fit Into
A brand-new signing to Lost Map Records, Alexia Avina is an American singer-songwriter previously based in Montreal, now living in rural Massachusetts, whose heavenly music is rooted in ambient, folk and dreampop traditions. Alexia’s new single ‘Fit Into’ is part of Lost Map’s PostMap Club subscription service. It captures much about what makes her so…
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