Taken from “Ginormous”, out via TipTop Recording / Magniph on the 28th February 2020. Grimm Grimm is the solo project of London-based musician, recording artist and producer, Koichi Yamanoha. He has released two solo albums, and four singles on independent labels since 2014.. The project is an outlet for his fragile, otherworldly forays into baroque…
Tag: 2020
[streaming] Flying Fish Cove – Magic Wand
Flying Fish Cove is a painted dream of poetic indie pop from Seattle, WA. The fierce interiority, magical escapism, and mythical imaginaria that define singer-songwriter Dena Zilber’s intricate and intuitive visual style reveal themselves in the band’s transcendent patchwork of jangling ballads. Dena’s poignant vocals and propulsive rhythm guitar are accompanied by lead guitarist Jake…
[streaming] Georgia Ruth – Close For Comfort
Georgia Ruth is a musician from Aberystwyth. Using folk influences to create a truly unique sound, her debut album Week of Pines won the Welsh Music Prize in 2013 and was nominated for two BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Georgia collaborated with The Manic Street Preachers on their 2014 album Futurology before releasing her second…
[video of the week] Girlatones – Get To The End
Taken from thr second album by Girlatones, “Horn if You’re Honky”, out March 20 on Lost & Lonesome and Meritorio Records. Starting out as a songwriting vehicle for multi-instrumentalist Jesse Wiliams, Girlatones soon grew with the addition of folk singer-songwriter Leah Senior, followed by the rhythm section of Tam Matlakowski and Fabian Hunter Shaw whose…
THE INNOCENCE MISSION – See You Tomorrow (Bella Union, 2020)* È sicuramente capitato a tutti di pensare almeno una volta “fermate il mondo, voglio scendere”; ebbene, uno dei tasti in grado di avviare il processo coincide con quello play di ogni nuovo lavoro degli Innocence Mission. Succede da ormai oltre trent’anni, e ancor più di…
LEANDRO FRESCO & RAFAEL ANTON IRISARRI – Una Presencia En La Brisa (A Strangely Isolated Place, 2020) Come nel caso del loro primo episodio collaborativo (“La Equidistancia”, 2017), anche in “Una Presencia En La Brisa” la distanza che separa Leandro Fresco da Rafael Anton Irisarri diviene spunto per sculture sonore realizzate, appunto, attraverso le connessioni…
[streaming] Ralegh Long – English Rose
New track by Ralegh Long, under exclusive licence to frtyfve, out January 10th 2020. Ralegh Long is a Singer-Songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer whose music conveys an “almost mystical longing” [The Guardian]. Growing up in the English countryside, his music draws on a childhood spent wandering fields and streams and writing endless hours of music. A…
[video of the week] Dakota Suite & Quentin Sirjacq – Safe Within Your Arms
Taken from “The Indestructibility Of The Already Felled”, out January 31st 2020 via Schole Records. A singer/guitarist Chris Hooson’s project Dakota Suite and a pianist/composer Quentin Sirjacq will be releasing their new collaboration album on January 31st. This album was recorded during their second ‘dakota suite & quentin sirjacq’ Japan tour in 2017. A well-balanced…
[streaming] Nicole Oberle – A Knot In Twos
Taken from “Skin”, out January 21st 2020 via Whited Sepulchre. Nicole Oberle is a prolific and enigmatic artist whose work in the fields of textural ambient music and lo-fi beat-oriented work unfolds to reveal layers of emotional transparency and honesty. Skin – Oberle’s first release for Whited Sepulchre Records – comes in as a wash…
RUTGER ZUYDERVELT & BILL SEAMAN – Movements Of Dust (Oscarson, 2020)* A smentire ancora una volta il luogo comune per cui la ricerca ambientale espungerebbe dal suo spettro d’indagine le componenti dinamiche del suono provvede la prima collaborazione tra due artisti navigati quali Rutger Zuydervelt e Bill Seaman, la cui realizzazione ha contemplato modalità altrettanto…
[streaming] Ella van der Woude – Bye Bye Little House
Taken from the album “Solo Piano”, released on the 14th of February 2020 via Snowstar Records. Ella van der Woude is a Swiss-Dutch, Amsterdam-based musician, songwriter and composer. A versatile artist who scores movies, performs in bands and immerses herself in a number of projects. In 2016, Van der Woude produced a dream pop/triphop EP…
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