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…
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[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…
YAIR ETZIONY – We Were Here Before, We Will Be Here After (Seasides On Postcards, 2020) Fin dai loop granulosi e dalle pulsazioni che ne scandiscono l’incipit “Nothern Home” appare inevitabile pensare alle architetture inerti e ai ritmi vitali della metropoli e in particolare della città europea che più di altre incarna le contrastanti pulsioni…
[streaming] Tristan Welch – Chromesthesia 11
Taken from “Chromesthesia Chronicles”, out August 7th 2020. Taken as a complete object, Tristan Welch’s Chromesthesia Chronicles is a 12 page booklet of songs inspired by Steve Loya’s paintings or paintings based on Tristan Welch’s songs. In this collaborative push/pull between Welch’s aching, drone-heavy guitar work and Loya’s bold and expressive visual art, the two…
[video of the week] Campbell Sibthorpe – Dandelion
Taken from “Ytown”, the long-awaited EP from London-based folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Campbell Sibthorpe, released on 21st July 2020. Following a steady release of singles, the most recent being the praised choral ‘Good Lord’, Ytown ties together these lone stories and gives them the opportunity to expand into a journey that invites. A compelling commute…
RUBY HAUNT – Tiebreaker (Self Released, 2020)* Fin dall’iconografia che abitualmente accompagna la loro musica, un tipico immaginario da provincia americana fa da sfondo alle compassate creazioni del duo californiano formato da Wyatt Ininns e Victor Pakpour. Lo si percepisce immediatamente, ancora una volta, dalla copertina digitale associata al loro quarto album “Tiebreaker”, che va…
CV & JAB – Landscape Architecture (Editions Basilic, 2020) Come già nella precedente occasione collaborativa (“Thoughts Of A Dot As It Travels A Surface”, 2018), Christina Vantzou e John Also Bennett traggono ispirazione dalle riflessioni su forma e rappresentazione dell’artista multidisciplinare francese Zin Taylor. Ancora una volta, i due musicisti dispiegano i loro suoni nello…
[streaming] Joseph Futak – Gone Before
“Gone Before” is the second single taken from “Pigeon Songs”, out September 4th via Fox Food Records. As his previous band was drawing to a close, Joseph began writing for this new project tentatively at first, bringing the songs to the George, Lucy and Lily and working on them in George’s bedroom with a drum…
[streaming] Rachel Angel – Strapped
Rachel Angel is a singer, poetess, and guitar rocker. After living in NYC and out west, Rachel Angel returns to Miami with her crisp and poetic brand of songwriting; rare and refreshing in the barren heat of South Florida. Straddling the elusive line between folk and country, Angel’s songs take you through the muck of pain…
ENRICO CONIGLIO & GIULIO ALDINUCCI – Stalking The Elusive (Dronarivm, 2020) Hanno dovuto compiere qualche migliaio di chilometri per incontrarsi due tra le più dense esperienze di ricerca sonora proposte dal sempre stimolante nucleo di musicisti italiani dediti al soundscaping ambientale e alla sperimentazione ambient-drone. I quattro brani racchiusi in “Stalking The Elusive” rappresentano infatti…
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