KARIMA WALKER & KATY KIRBY – Among Horses V (Son Canciones, 2020) Quante volte si è rimarcato come negli ultimi anni siano soprattutto interpreti femminili ad aver interpretato al meglio le evoluzioni dei linguaggi folk, autenticamente portandole nel terzo millennio? Probabilmente non ancora a sufficienza, visto che con grande frequenza continuano a non mancare conferme…
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[video of the week] Fair Mothers – Harpy
“Harpy” is the new single from “In Monochrome” by Fair Mothers, out on Song, by Toad Records on August 14th 2020. Video directed by Adam Stafford. “In Monochrome” is the second album to emerge from the Happiness Hotel recording sessions with Fair Mothers over the course of 2017 and 2018, following on from “Separate Lives”,…
[streaming] Aisha Burns – 15th Amendment
Taken from “Until We All Are Free (Benefit EP)”, out now digitally. This track was originally composed for WNYC’s “More Perfect” podcast. The song illustrates the passing of the 15th amendment in 1870, which granted Black Americans the right to vote. Part of the amendment text reads that no man shall be discriminated against by…
[streaming] Max Gowan – Tracing
“Tracing” is the third single from “Last Companion”, the new album by Max Gowan, out June 19th via Z Tapes. The songs on “Last Companion” meditate on solidarity among friends and romantic partners while facing an ever-creeping apocalypse. Written before a present where the hand on our shoulder from a trusted friend seems like an…
WITH HIDDEN NOISE – Beside The Sea (Oscarson, 2020) Qualora si nutrissero ancora dubbi sul ruolo rivestito dalle etichette indipendenti nel momento in cui qualunque musicista è in grado di rilasciare autonomamente le proprie creazioni in rete, l’esperienza della tedesca Oscarson basterebbe da sola a dimostrare come sensibilità e curiosità della ricerca possano offrire curata…
DG SOLARIS – Spirit Glow (Self Released, 2020)* Addio Laish, benvenuti DG Solaris. Non attiene senz’altro alla sola denominazione il cambiamento intercorso nella vita personale e, al contempo, artistica di Daniel Green: l’abbandono della sigla Laish, che l’aveva accompagnato lungo il corso di quasi un decennio e per quattro album sulla lunga distanza corrisponde infatti…
[streaming] Sally Anne Morgan – Thread Song
Acclaimed fiddler, banjoist and vocalist Sally Anne Morgan has announced her debut solo release “Thread”, out August 21st, 2020. Morgan is an artist and multi-instrumentalist whose mastery of traditional folk forms is matched only by her ability to push the bounds of those forms into fresh, imaginative pastures. Known for her fiddle playing with the…
BRIGID MAE POWER – Head Above The Water (Fire, 2020) Fin dai primi accordi di “On A City NIght”, brano che apre il terzo lavoro di Brigid Mae Power, si respira un’atmosfera familiare, eppure niente affatto scontata. Nella semplicità poetica dei suoi versi d’apertura, “City lights or country skies at night/ which do you prefer?”,…
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,…
[streaming] Lydia Cole – Something New
Hailing from the North Shore of Auckland, Lydia Cole has already played a host of live shows in New Zealand and Australia. Only just into her twenties, she’s already won the support of Neil Finn, who hosted the recording of her EP ‘Love Will Find A Way’ at his Roundhead studios, playing Wurlitzer on some…
[video of the week] Songs of Green Pheasant – Hello
Rusted Rail is delighted to release the new digital single from Songs of Green Pheasant – ‘Hello’. The tune is a summer folk-pop gem and is the first single ahead of the release of the full length Songs of Green Pheasant album “When The Weather Clears”, which will see the light of day on CD…
[streaming] Karima Walker & Katy Kirby – Right By You
Taken from “Among Horses V”, out June 19th via Son Canciones. A farm in the middle of nowhere. Sixty Spanish horses. And two songwriters who do not know each other, strangers with the same destiny. The critically acclaimed songwriters Karima Walker (Tucson, USA) and Katy Kirby (Nashville, USA) were dropped in a retirement home for…
[streaming] David Allred – Aquarius
Taken from “Baba Bruloakr”, out August 5th 2020. Hailing from Loomis, a small town outside of Sacramento, via Portland, Oregon — David worked as a sound engineer and session musician, featuring on multiple recordings by the likes of Birger Olsen, Brigid Mae Power, Brumes, The Beacon Sound Choir, Chantal Acda, Heather Woods Broderick, Jung Body,…
ELIZA EDENS – Time Away From Time (Self Released, 2020) Il “giardino di suoni” nel quale racconta di vivere nel brano di apertura del suo album di debutto Eliza Edens è davvero un luogo dell’immaginazione separato dai tempi e dai condizionamenti della vita moderna. Questa evidente dichiarazione di intenti funge da ideale manifesto della musica…
[video of the week] Pat Keen – Cell Song
Taken from the album “Cells Remain”, out August 21st via Birdwatcher Records. To build something from nothing still requires one to, at least subconsciously, bring all the experiences from the past to meet with a soft vision of the future. But the present moment holds structures and impressions that “refrain from any kind of change,…
OHIO KID – Ohio Kid E.P. (Self Released, 2020) Dove non arrivano (spesso verrebbe da dire “per fortuna”…) i canali promozionali, opera davvero il caso nella scoperta di piccole gemme lanciate come messaggi in bottiglia nel mare magnum della rete, in maniera pressoché del tutto incurante dell’eventualità che siano raccolti. Una pura casualità fa infatti…
[streaming] The Cradle – One Too Many Times
The Cradle, the solo project of singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Paco Cathcart (Big Neck Police, Eyes of Love, Shimmer), just announced his upcoming 21-track album, “Laughing In My Sleep”, will release August 21st, 2020 via NNA Tapes. Along with the announcement, Cathcart has shared the album’s lead single, “One Too Many Times,” featuring Lily Konigsberg (of…
DENISON WITMER – American Foursquare (Asthmatic Kitty, 2020) Tra gli innumerevoli cantautori che perpetuano ogni giorno quella tradizione americana rivitalizzata negli ultimi decenni e ormai stabilmente sdoganata persino nel mondo “indie”, ve ne sono soprattutto di “minori” e outsider, che lo fanno per la pura passione di scrivere canzoni, molto distanti dalle luci dei riflettori….
[streaming] Lily Hayes – Still Young
Compelling, harmonic and original, Lily Hayes views her music as an on-going project – both writing and performing innately confessional lyric supported by delicate electric guitar. At 21, her songwriting explores both the landscape and internal emotion in a raw and poetic way. Delicate, yet precise, her songs are hard hitting, and will make you…
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