“Gimme Vortex” is the opening track of “Abyss Versions” by Boduf Songs, out October 4th 2019 via Orindal Records. Boduf Songs’ seventh album and first on Orindal Records marks the Ohio-via-Southampton home recording project’s most detailed production yet, voyaging into deeper recesses than ever before. Abyss Versions will see the light of day on October…
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[streaming] Mr Magpie – Bulrushes
“Bulrushes” is the opening track of “The Magical World of Mr Magpie”, the first release by Mr Magpie. Mr Magpie is many things: a talking bird, a time-travelling mystic, and the commander-in-chief of a new Sheffield band, whose other members include local musicians Matt Alexander (Matt Alexander & the Belljar Band) and L.A. Foster (Curlicues)….
KELE GOODWIN – Moonbug (Oscarson, 2019) Kele Goodwin, chi era costui? Può in effetti capitare di ricordare poco più di un nome, a tanti anni di distanza da un lavoro semplice e ricco di splendide canzoni folk com’era stato “Hymns”, nell’ormai lontano 2010. Eppure, sono sufficienti i primi accordi acustici e le delicate interpretazioni dell’artista…
SANDRO PERRI – Soft Landing (Constellation, 2019)* Tra i profili più compositi e rappresentativi della scena alternativa canadese, Sandro Perri ha appena raggiunto il ventennale di attività, attraversando mondi sonori dall’elettronica al folk, mantenendo sempre immutata la curiosità della scoperta e la sperimentazione di soluzioni mai scontate. È appunto in piena coerenza con questa linea…
[streaming] Emma Russack & Lachlan Denton – Love For Myself
“Love For Myself” is the first track taken from “Take The Reigns” by Emma Russack & Lachlan Denton, out October 18th via Osborne Again and Bobo Integral. When Emma Russack and Lachlan Denton write songs together something inexplicable happens. ‘I don’t know how to explain it,’ says Lachlan. ‘The way we make music and the…
[streaming] Vetiver – To Who Knows Where
The first single off Vetiver’s forthcoming album ‘Up On High’, out November 1st on Mama Bird Recording Co. Vetiver is the long running stage and recording name of San Francisco’s Andy Cabic, who since 2003 has released over 6 albums and toured around the world supporting artists such as Wilco, The Shins, Fleet Foxes and…
[video of the week] Sumie – Moon
Taken from “Mirou” EP, released digitally September 13th 2019 via Bella Union. Having released her sophomore album back in late 2017, Sumie has today announced the release of her upcoming EP titled ‘Mirou’ which features five brand new tracks. The first track to be shared from the EP is ‘Moon’, described by Sumie as “a…
RUTH GARBUS – Kleinmeister (Orindal, 2019)* Non è un semplice album di cantautorato femminile il secondo lavoro sulla lunga distanza di Ruth Garbus, artista del Vermont che da solista ha pubblicato un altro paio di Ep nel corso di oltre un decennio, nel quale è stata tra l’altro voce e batterista degli Happy Birthday, band…
[streaming] Serafina Steer – Provides Common Ground
Taken from “The Mind is Trap”, out September 27th via Vitamin Concept Records. “A solitary glass bead game of an album,” is how English composer Serafina Steer describes her new solo record, The Mind is a Trap. Like the classic novel by Herman Hesse, Steer’s music offers a kind of crystalline grace, richly allusive and…
[streaming] Itasca – Bess’s Dance
“Bess’s Dance” is the first single out of “Spring”, the new album by Itasca, out November 1st via Paradise of Bachelors. In the fall of 2017, a year after the release of her acclaimed 2016 album “Open to Chance“, Kayla Cohen, the songwriter and guitarist who records and performs as Itasca, left her home in…
[streaming] Rachael Dadd – Cut My Roots
Taken from Rachael Dadd‘s new album “FLUX” – which is out 08 November 2019 via Memphis Industries. “Starting out as a solitary trickling stream of songs and then growing in momentum through some life-affirming collaborations, “Flux feels” ready to fledge at this timely time. It’s been quite a journey, and not just the making of…
SHANNON LAY – August (Sub Pop, 2019)* Nel volgere di appena un paio d’anni, la vita e la dimensione artistica di Shannon Marie Lay sono mutate in maniera significativa: l’artista californiana è infatti transitata dal microcosmo delle produzioni su cassetta a etichette indipendenti di prim’ordine, prima grazie al fiuto di Kevin Morby, che ne ha…
[video of the week] Lian Ray – Rose
‘Rose’ is the title track of the upcoming debut album by Lian Ray, which will be released on the 22nd of November via Snowstar Records. French singer-songwriter Lian Ray, who recently released his first single ‘Mateo’, announces his debut album. Together with the announcement the new single ‘Rose’ is released as well. The song is…
REPULSIVE WOMAN – Relief (Self Released, 2019) Una cittadina di poco più di centomila abitanti della Nuova Zelanda è diventata negli anni quasi una “denominazione d’origine” per la musica indipendente. Non è tuttavia solo la provenienza da Dunedin ad attrarre l’attenzione sul debutto sotto l’alias di Repulsive Woman di Millie Lovelock, già voce e chitarra…
[streaming] Kele Goodwin – Handrail
“Handrail” is the first track available from “Moonbug”, available August 31st 2019 via Oscarson Records. Kele Goodwin has spent his life in three places: in Juneau, Alaska; on the Navajo Nation; and in the misty Pacific Northwest. He makes music that sings from bone marrow, from a life and landscape alternately charted and lost, crushed…
CROSS RECORD – Cross Record (Ba Da Bing!, 2019)* Estremamente interessante e per certi versi sorprendente è il percorso che ha condotto Emily Cross dall’introspettiva dimensione “da cameretta” al suo terzo album sotto l’alias Cross Record, attraverso la condivisione del precedente “Wabi-Sabi” (2017) e il progetto Loma, che la vede accanto a Jonathan Meiburg degli…
SWEENEY – Human, Insignificant (Sound In Silence, 2019) Di tanto in tanto, Jason Sweeney stacca letteralmente la spina dalle sue creazioni ambientali sotto l’alias Panoptique Electrical (recentissima la pubblicazione della colonna sonora di “A View From The Bridge”) per vestire, in un contesto che non può non immaginarsi solitario e notturno, i nuovi panni di…
[video of the week] Common Holly – Central Booking
Common Holly’s Album “When I say to you Black Lightning” out Oct 11 via Solitaire Recordings and Barsuk Records. Directed by Max Taeuschel & Aaliyeh Afshar Holding fast to the emotional honesty of “Playing House” (2017), Brigitte Naggar’s sophomore record as Common Holly, When I say to you Black Lightning, is a look outward; an…
[streaming] J.P.Riggall – Elk & The Wolves
New track by James P. Riggall. Produced by J.P.Riggall and Jamie Donnelly Drums and percussion by David Purton Former frontman of The Broken Broadcast, J.P.Riggall has released his solo debut album “The Long Dark Bright” in 2015. More to come later this year. http://www.facebook.com/J.P.Riggall
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