Taken from “Keeper is the Heart Out”, on Ba Da Bing January 20, 2023. Video directed by Leah van der Werff & Eva Louise Goodman. Eva Louise Goodman’s Nighttime project locates itself on a musical tree planted on the British Isles, perched atop the branch of folk leaning into sixties rock. Her upstate New York…
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RAPT Wayward Faith (Z Tapes, 2022)* Le dilatate sospensioni che caratterizzano la musica di Jabob Ware, che tanto avevano impressionato in “None Of This Will Matter” (2019), costituiscono la premessa del nuovo “Wayward Faith”. Non si tratta solamente di elementi stilistici, pur decisivi nel lessico del songwriter di Brighton che ormai da qualche anno incide…
[video of the week] Diatom Deli – Disarray
Taken from “Time~Lapse Nature”, out May 13th 2022 via RVNG Intl. Diatom Deli’s “Disarray” exalts a renewed threshold of melodic reverence, with indelible arcs that chime in bright, audial gusts, and marks the announcement of Deli’s forthcoming album Time~Lapse Nature. Delisa Paloma-Sisk was born and raised in Tennessee, but grew up traveling to Puerto Rico, where her mother’s family…
[video of the week] Will Samson – Shun
Taken from the album “Active Imagination” out 6th May (CD/DL) 24th June 2022 (LP) on Human Chorus. Electronic / folk artist Will Samson announces the release of his brand new album “Active Imagination”, the follow-up to 2019’s “Paralanguage“, released via Wichita Recordings. Worked on across the span of one entire year – from January of…
[video of the week] Aspidistrafly – The Voice of Flowers
Taken from the album “Altar of Dreams” by Aspidistrafly, out on February 25th 2022 via Kitchen Label. Aspidistrafly , the Singaporean duo comprising April Lee and producer Ricks Ang, return with “Altar of Dreams”, their first studio album in a decade. While their last album “A Little Fable” introduced the world to their bucolic and…
[streaming] Ilsha – Dive
“Dive” is the opening and title track of the debut EP by Ilsha, out October 29th via Tiny Room Records. For the debut of her band Ilsha, songwriter Ilse Hamelink wrote five songs that manage to be both personal and exuberant. Each song is a snapshot of a particular moment in time, capturing the feelings…
DAMON & NAOMI A Sky Record (20|20|20, 2021)* La trentennale storia di Damon Krukowski e Naomi Yang si arricchisce di un nuovo tassello. Primo album vero e proprio dai tempi di “Fortune” (2015), “A Sky Record” permette di ritrovare l’incantata magia del duo in dieci nuove tracce che oltre agli abituali intrecci vocali e alle…
[streaming] Radiant Heart – Aria/Karaoke
Following on from sophomore album ‘Brocken Spectre’, out in December of last year, London-duo Radiant Heart return with their contemplative and dream-like double-single Aria/Karaoke. Chris Moore and Celia MacDougall wrote and recorded both songs over two weeks in winter as a break from working on their next album. From their separate bedrooms, they quickly wrote a…
[video of the week] Moneira – The Bird (Interesting to See)
“The Bird (Interesting to See)” is a minimalistic undertaking, sparsely arranged with piano and voice, at times accompanied by a lone mellotron. Moneira fits rightly within the Scandinavian Folk ballad traditions in the likes of Ane Brun, Frida Hyvönen or Stina Nordenstam. What are we but the sum of the experiences we carry within? Often…
KARIMA WALKER Waking The Dreaming Body (Keeled Scales / Orindal, 2021) Fin dal suo “Hands In Our Names”, era sufficientemente chiaro come il profilo di Karima Walker non fosse riassumibile in quello di una semplice cantautrice. Benché il folk e le sonorità acustiche facessero senz’altro parte della sua formazione musicale e della sua sensibilità creativa,…
[video of the week] Satomimagae – Numa
Taken from “Hanazono”, out April 23rd 2021 via RVNG Intl. Director: Soh Ideuchi Satomimagae’s “Hanazono” is an invitation to revel in your immediate and imagined surroundings, to make time and space for guileless curiosity and garden variety enchantment. A tribute to everyday mysticism, “Hanazono” is an ecology of simple, cyclical refrains and elegiac entreaties cross-pollinating…
[video of the week] Marina Allen – Belong Here
Marina Allen’s music is like that rollercoaster ride you have in your dreams, a moving, hard-to-believe balancing act that crosses tracks, occasionally leaves the rails and invariably flows unapologetically, succinctly and spine-tinglingly to a glorious conclusion. Her voice surfs many musical tangents, hovers and persists, floats and, only when entirely necessary, stings with honesty and aplomb;…
[video of the week] Karima Walker – Reconstellated
Taken from “Waking the Dreaming Body”, coming February 26, 2021 via Keeled Scales / Orindal Records. Video by Karima Walker. Tucson artist Karima Walker has long nurtured a duality within her work as a musician, developing her own sonic language as a sound designer in tandem with her craft as a singer/songwriter. The polarity within…
SONGS OF GREEN PHEASANT – When The Weather Clears (Rusted Rail, 2020)* Le canzoni raccolte in “When The Weather Clears” rimandano a un tempo diverso, non soltanto perché la loro genesi originaria – sebbene non consacrata da un’uscita vera e propria – risale a oltre dieci anni fa, ma anche perché riportano al presente il…
RAPT – None Of This Will Matter (Z Tapes, 2020) A volte, immancabilmente, è sufficiente un giro di chitarra dalle soffici risonanze per risvegliare dolci memorie e destare l’attenzione su una nuova, piccola produzione indipendente. Nell’occasione si tratta delle prime note di “Siren Bay”, brano di apertura di “None Of This Will Matter”, secondo lavoro…
[streaming] Rapt – Siren Bay
Taken from “None Of This Will Matter”, releases October 2nd 2020 via Z Tapes. Rapt is the the folk/shoegaze/slowcore/ambient/electronic project of Brighton based artist Jabob Ware. After the release of “Within Thrall” (2019), Ware went through some painful physical challenges, his health failed him for a period. After months unable to play electric or acoustic…
SEA BELOW – Sleeplessness (Self Released, 2020) Ne è trascorso di tempo da quando un’enigmatica artista tedesca dalle fattezze e dall’alias orientale incantava con le sue canzoni folk tanto semplici quanto evocative. I lunghi anni trascorsi dal suo secondo lavoro (“Feathers & Driftwood”, 2013) hanno visto Susanne Stanglow protagonista di varie vicissitudini che la hanno,…
[video of the week] Gillian Frances – Lake
Gillian Frances is a multi-instrumentalist based in Anacortes, WA. A darkwave angel with a bouquet of peacock feathers in her hand, Gillian sets gloomy days to electric guitars. So far, she has released the cassette EP “Born Yesterday” in 2018 and is currently working on new music. “Lake” is her first new track since then,…
JOHANNA WARREN – Chaotic Good (Wax Nine / Carpark, 2020) Reduce dall’accoppiata di album intitolati “Gemini” e dedicati alla dualità, intesa come combinazione di opposti anche dal punto di vista espressivo, Johanna Warren trova una sintesi della sua ricerca di equilibrio tra contrasti nel suo quinto lavoro solista. “Chaotic Good” rappresenta il frutto di anni…
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