Recalling the sublime fingerpicked purity of folk singers-past such as Bridget St John and Linda Perhacs, estimable Melbourne folk artist Lucy Roleff releases her debut album “This Paradise” via Lost And Lonesome on July 15, 2016. The follow-up to “Longbows” — Lucy’s acclaimed EP of 2013 — was recorded with Tony Dupé (Holly Throsby, Grand…
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[video of the week] A Singer Of Songs – Tall Dreams
“Tall Dreams” is the first single of “Fading”, A Singer of Songs’ fifth studio album, out in September 2016 via Son Canciones. Jonas Balmer made the video, based on the photos Rafa Arocha took during the recording of the album in Pastallé Sound. “Tall Dream” has been featured as the latest “single of the week” of the radio show L’Attimo Fuggente….
[streaming] Queen Of The Meadow – In A Nutshell
Helen Ferguson (34 years old, Bordeaux, France) had never touched a guitar nor written a song until she was 27. Her only musical experience consisted of singing in the local church choir. When she finally got a guitar for her birthday, an inevitable urge to write songs came along with it. Parts and pieces from…
[streaming] Glacis – From One Room To Another (So You Leave Me Now)
Glacis is Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken with Ed Hamilton. Track taken from “The World Is A Little Lonelier Without You”, out now on Fluid Audio. “From One Room To Another (So You Leave Me Now)”, in an exclusive version including spoken word by Ali McMekeen is featured as the current “single of the week” of the radio show L’Attimo…
[video of the week] Methyl Ethel – Twilight Driving
Perth gets hot. Scorching hot. The sort of heat that melts your brain like butter. They say cold places are ideal for making music – London, New York, Paris – all the usual suspects. But heat makes artists do weird things too, and that’s the space where Methyl Ethel live and thrive. Read less Jake…
[streaming] Kramies & Alma Forrer – Into The Sparks
Once upon a time there was a wonderful songstress named Alma who lived in a beautiful land called Paris. Very far away, up high in the mountains lived a quiet troubadour named Kramies. One day as Kramies was walking through the woods he started to sing a mysterious song. As she was sitting in her…
[streaming] Matt Maltese – Studio 6
Taken from the debut EP “In A New Bed”. Matt Maltese is a 20 year old singer and songwriter. Now based in South London, he’s fully immersed himself in the local emerging music scene, from putting on shows for himself and other local names at makeshift venues, namely South London studio 180 – a dilapidated…
[streaming] Anna Tivel – Look Away
Taken from Heroes “Waking Up”, Anna Tivel’s third full-length album, out on Fluff & Gravy Records on May 20th. “Waking Ep” is the result of a year spent living and writing in a friend’s garage and on the road. The eleven song recording winds through a dusky darkness of hopeful strangers, shadowed struggle, quiet love,…
[streaming] Curlicues – Pink Blossom
Curlicues is the musical project of Bristol-based artist L.A. Foster. Long in gestation, his first EP, “Orchids”, sprang forth in 2013, its songs the sole remnants of a catalogue of private home recordings, made as The Plums in rural Warwickshire, yet returned to and heavily edited some time later whilst living in Saigon, Vietnam. “The…
[streaming] Allysen Callery – Crabapple
Track taken from the forthcoming album by Allysen Callery, “The Song The Songbird Sings”, out May 2016. Allysen Callery is self taught folk artist from Rhode Island, USA , her vocal delivery recalls the haunting style of the late 60′s early 70′s British Folk Revival. Her first two albums “Hopey” (2007) & “Hobgoblin’s Hat” (2010)…
[streaming] The Cosmic Array – Dear Ones
Penned by Abby Sohn and Paul Battenbough, “Dear Ones” is the first single from the album “Islands” (due for release on 6 May 2016). The Cosmic Array were founded via a collaboration between Paul Battenbough (No Thee No Ess, King of Despair) and Huw Rees (Rag Foundation, King of Despair) that started in late November…
[streaming] Trotting Bear – Peace In The Still
Taken from the new album by Trotting Bear, “Places”, available everywhere April 22, 2016. “We will go to places we have never been,” sings Andy Berkhout on the title track from Trotting Bear’s new album Places. Against the backdrop of a dynamic rhythm section, electric guitars, and vintage synthesizers, Berkhout and his bandmates explore the…
[streaming] Plantman – Slow Design
“Slow Design” from the forthcoming Plantman album “To The Lighthouse” out on Arlen, May 2016. Artwork by Amy Adele Seymour. The track is featured as the current “single of the week” of the radio show L’Attimo Fuggente. Plantman the 2D character is a fictional supervillain from the world of Marvel Comics who, armed with his “vege-ray”, is capable…
[streaming] Ditte Elly – Had Me From The Start
Ditte Elly’s debut album, “Songs”, is the culmination of just over four years of song-writing. It was made possible by a successful crowdfunder campaign in August 2015, as well as the time and energy given in-kind by many a good friend. The album will be released April 1st, 2016. “Had Me From The Start” is featured…
[streaming] Astronaute – Sunday Kid
Taken from “Petrichor”, out February 19th via Zeal Records. Myrthe Luyten, the voice of Astronaute, had been searching for a while. Not just for herself, but also for the right way tomagically transform her comfort into music. She wrote, she deleted and re-wrote. The result is called “Petrichor”: nine songs that read like short stories,…
[streaming] The Wave Pictures – Don’t Worry My Friend, Don’t Worry At All
In Dave Tattersal words: “Darren Hayman suggested to me that The Wave Pictures make an album with one microphone. Everybody together in one room playing live into one microphone. You get the picture right once and you capture it. No mixing later. The idea appealed to me enormously. It’s a really beautiful sound, the one…
[streaming] The Big Eyes Family Players – Ghosts
Track taken from The Big Eyes Family Players new album “Oh!”, out February 26 via Home Assembly Music. A loose collective based around Sheffield artist James Green. It’s been three years since the last Big Eyes album (“Folk Songs II” on Static Caravan) and a whole six years since they released an album of original material…
[video of the week] Ralegh Long – Afternoon Change (Live in the Warehouse)
Ralegh Long performing “Afternoon Change” | Live in the Warehouse Written and composed by Ralegh Long Directed by Federica Camiciola/Mamuri Production Sound engineer: Francesco Fanciullacci Recorded in the Audioglobe warehouse on January 25th 2016 Ralegh Long is an English Singer-Songwriter. His debut album “Hoverance”, is released on Gare du Nord records on 6th April 2015….
[streaming] Merival – A Better Deal
Taken from “Lovers”, debut Ep by Anna Horvath, alias Merival. “Since landing in Toronto in 2012, I have been active in the music community, contributing to projects and collaborating with musicians including Ryan Hemsworth (Secret Songs), Torquil Campbell (Stars), Darren Seltmann (The Avalanches), Swim Good (Bedroomer) and fronting my old band First Rate People. All of the songs…
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