ORLA WREN The Blind Deaf Stone (Time Released Sound, 2021) La personalità artistica da autentico “outsider” di Orla Wren conosce intervalli creativi irregolari e applicazioni espressive mutevoli. Dedicatosi nell’ultimo periodo all’elaborazione di “Filmscores” del tutto peculiari (messe a disposizione alla fine dello scorso anno in ben sette volumi in formato digitale), l’enigmatico artista inglese torna a…
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[streaming] Sun June – Everything I Had
Sun June have shared the last single, “Everything I Had,” from their upcoming album Somewhere, out February 5, 2021 via Keeled Scales and Run For Cover Records. “‘Everything I Had’ is about feeling stuck and wishing you could go back in time. It misses when things were new and easy and full of promise,” said Sun June’s Laura Colwell. “It feels very ‘Austin’ to…
[streaming] Tele Novella – Words That Stay
“Words That Stay” is the opening track of “Merlynn Belle”, out February 5th 2021 via Kill Rock Stars. Tele Novella is a project out of Lockhart, Texas; a small town, lost in time. It’s in this lost and mysterious place that they weave their classic pop songs and then process them through a loner, medieval-tonk…
[streaming] Clémentine March – Into The Distance
Taken from “Songs Of Resilience”, out February 5th 2021 via Lost Map Records. Recorded over two days in November last year, Songs of Resilience is the intimate, instinctive and beguiling second album by eclectic London-based French singer-songwriter Clémentine March. Set for release on limited-edition CDR and digital platforms on February 5, 2021, and preceded by…
[video of the week] Bill Callahan & Bonnie Prince Billy – Rooftop Garden
“Rooftop Garden” is by Lou Reed. Track released January 1st, 2021 on Drag City. Video directed by Kris Rey. Lou Reed’s vision of domestic placidity and shared moments of remove amid the urban squalor meets George Xylouris’ Cretan lute arrangement, transforming into a dervish dance for Bill Callahan and Bonnie Billy, tapping an ancient and…
HENRIK MEIERKORD Kval (Ambientologist, 2021)* Ormai sempre più spesso, non è il semplice utilizzo di una strumentazione “classica” a definire opere di composizione contemporanea, bensì l’espressione e le dinamiche da esso generate. Tale premessa vale senz’altro di fronte al nuovo lavoro del violoncellista svedese Henrik Meierkord, artista di formazione classica ma negli anni protagonista di…
[streaming] The Kindling – Flesh And Blood (Slow version)
Taken from “Flesh and Blood (single)”, released January 1, 2021 (free to download throughout January). Guy Weir – vocals, piano, guitars, drum machine. The Kindling are a minimal alt-folk band from London (UK). Their widescreen songs explore themes of disappointment and hope, loss and discovery, action and reflection. Guy Weir’s disarming voice calls to mind…
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