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…
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[streaming] Clara Mann – I Didn’t Know You Were Leaving Today
Clara makes soft “almost folk music” to make herself feel calm in a busy world. Based in Bristol, she writes lo-fi songs to be played in the evening.Single “I Didn’t Know You Were Leaving Today” out now on Sad Club Records. https://www.facebook.com/claramannsongs
SAM AMIDON – Sam Amidon(Nonesuch, 2020) Per la seconda volta (la prima nel 2014 con “Lily-O“), Sam Amidon si confronta con la tradizione folk reinterpretandone alcuni classici, filtrati attraverso la propria sensibilità di autore e orchestratore di suoni. Come denota l’omonimo titolo, vi è molto di personale nelle riletture di brani quali “Pretty Polly”, “Cuckoo”…
[streaming] Matt Paxton – Dance Me Home
New single by Matt Paxton, out now. Matt Paxton is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Hamilton, Ontario. After self-recording and releasing demos in early 2006, Paxton was invited by local producers Michael Keire and Glen Marshall, known for their work with Feist and Apostle of Hustle, to record what would become 2009’s “Back Home in the Village”. Exclaim!…
ALLYSEN CALLERY – Ghost Folk (Cosirecords, 2020) Da sempre soffusa e intrisa di ovattata magia, non sorprende che la declinazione folk di Allysen Callery diventi addirittura “spettrale” nel titolo del suo settimo disco solista. In realtà, le dodici canzoni di quasi sola chitarra e voce che formano il lavoro non si discostano in maniera sostanziale…
[streaming] Epilogues – The Gap
Taken from “Me” E.P., out now via Tambourine Machine. Epilogues was born in Norwich but grew up in quiet bedrooms across the UK. Established in 2011, the brainchild of Mikey Donnelly has its foundations firmly laid with his family in York, but has settled, for now, in Leeds. Whilst the band has undergone a few…
[video of the week] Dave Scanlon – Water’s No Crop
Taken from the album “Pink in each, bright blue, bright green”, out January 15th 2021 via Whatever’s Clever Records. Video by Nina Vroemen. Dave Scanlon is a composer, guitarist, vocalist, and electronic musician. Scanlon is an active member of the experimental rock band JOBS, pursues a practice of writing austere songs, and continues a series…
[streaming] Lizzie Reid – Always Lovely
Glaswegian singer-songwriter Lizzie Reid has announced her debut EP Cubicle, out February 10 via Seven Four Seven Six Records. Reid recorded the project in March of this year with producer Oli Barton-Wood (Mellah, Nilufer Yanya, Molly Payton) and completed it just days ahead of the UK-wide lockdown. She’s also previewed the EP with a new…
LISA/LIZA – Shelter Of A Song (Orindal, 2020) Per il suo terzo album, Liza Victoria è tornata letteralmente a rifugiarsi nella scarna dimensione espressiva di chitarra e voce che caratterizzava le sue prime produzioni casalinga sotto l’alias Lisa/Liza. Accantonate per il momento la condivisione creativa e le vesti moderatamente elettriche del precedente “Momentary Glance” (2018),…
JESSICA – The Space Between (Self Released, 2020) Il “nuovissimo mondo” continua a costituire un microcosmo creativo a sé stante, nel quale continuano a originarsi proposte musicali dai caratteri spesso distintivi rispetto alle prevalenti produzioni europee e statunitensi. Capita così che nel continente oceanico si scoprano, magari con ritardo, piccole alchimie “di culto” in ambiti…
[video of the week] Annsofie Salomon – Soft Dreams
Directed, edited and grated by Phillip Jørgensen. The debut single from Annsofie Salomon. After five years of applying to / being rejected from art school, Salomon dumped all of her sculptures in the ocean. “Soft Dreams” is a collage of the titles of these sculptures, currently resting at the bottom of Copenhagen Harbor; her bid…
LAURA FELL – Safe From Me (Balloon Machine, 2020)* Non tutti i musicisti hanno cominciato a suonare e a scrivere canzoni da giovanissimi, ma per alcuni l’ispirazione e la scintilla creativa sono scoccate più tardi, portate a maturazione dal tempo e dalle esperienze. Così è stato per Laura Fell, londinese e musicista per passione, scoperta…
[streaming] His His – Matador
His His is the project of Toronto-based artist Aidan Belo. Combining delicate guitar lines with simple yet thoughtful vocals, Belo created this project as an outlet after relocating to his family’s hobby farm outside of the city, in an attempt to evoke something rural and honest. Most easily defined by the Portuguese word saudade, a…
CHLOË MARCH – Starlings & Crows (Hidden Shoal, 2020) Superata brillantemente la parentesi di organica collaborazione con Todd Tobias (“Amialluma”, 2018), Chloë March torna alla creazione solista accentuando i caratteri sognanti e le atmosfere evanescenti del precedente “Blood-Red Spark” (2017). Al quinto album, l’artista inglese si dimostra ormai pienamente a proprio agio in ambientazioni rarefatte…
SEAMUS FOGARTY – A Bag Of Eyes (Domino, 2020) Non ingannino i danzanti arpeggi acustici con i quali si apre il suo terzo album: già non del tutto incasellabile nell’archetipo del cantautore folk, Seamus Fogarty ha deciso di sperimentare una diversa modalità di creazione delle proprie canzoni. Pur non essendo inedito il suo interesse per…
[video of the week] A.S. Fanning – All Time
Taken from the forthcoming album ‘You Should Go Mad’, available via Proper Octopus Records on November 13th, 2020. Multi-instrumentalist A.S. Fanning – aka Stephen Fanning – returns with the release of his idiosyncratic new album You Should Go Mad, due for release on 13th November 2020 via Proper Octopus Records. Fanning combines gothic, psychedelic and…
[streaming] Grace Gillespie – The Child
Taken from the EP “After The Harvest Moon”, set for release on November 27th via Kaleidoscope. Grace Gillespie is a London-based artist and producer originally from Devon, who spent much of 2017 touring as part of the live line-up for 4AD’s Pixx. In 2019 Grace received PRS’s WMM funding and consequently released her debut EP…
[streaming] Maeve Aickin – Harriet
Maeve Aickin is a seventeen-year-old singer/songwriter based between Mumbai, India and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her debut album, “Waiting Rooms”, will be released on November 13th through Corkscrew Records. Maeve only came to music seriously two years ago when she was inspired to pick up her father’s acoustic guitar after seeing Julien Baker in concert. While she…
DAVID A. JAYCOCK – Murder, And The Birds (Triassic Tusk, 2020) Reduce dai due episodi del sodalizio con Marry Waterson, David A. Jaycock torna a pubblicare un album solista ben sette anni dopo il precedente “Ten Songs”. Altre dieci nuove canzoni formano la scaletta di “Murder, And The Birds”, tutte ancora legate a un immaginario…
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