HEATHER WOODS BRODERICK – Invitation (Western Vinyl, 2019) Per il suo terzo album solista in dieci anni, inframezzati da innumerevoli collaborazioni con altri musicisti su disco e in live band, Heather Woods Broderick è tornata ai luoghi e ai temi della sua formazione individuale. Concepiti respirando la desolata bellezza della zona costiera dell’Oregon e ispirati…
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[streaming] Eleanor Murray – This Grand Table
“This Grand Table” is the first track taken from “Compass”, the new album by Eleanor Murray, out May 4th, 2019. Songwriter, producer and artist Eleanor Murray has spent the past twelve years creating and recording music out of the Pacific Northwest. Informed by folk tradition while adhering to no rules, Eleanor Murray’s music exists in…
MARRY WATERSON & EMILY BARKER – A Window To Other Ways (One Little Indian, 2019) È davvero una finestra aperta, all’osservazione del mondo e alle infinite possibilità di ibridazione musicale, il lavoro frutto dell’incontro tra Marry Waterson ed Emily Barker. Conosciutesi in occasione di un ritiro di artisti organizzato da Kathryn Joseph, la folksinger inglese…
[streaming] FOONYAP – Yes/No
One of the UK’s most staunchly independent labels Song, By Toad Records has announced details of another one of its celebrated four-way Split 12’’ projects that’s sadly also its swansong. Matthew Young decided last year to step back from running the Edinburgh label, adding a bittersweet tinge to the 10th anniversary gig at Leith Depot,…
[video of the week] Aldous Harding – Fixture Picture
Aldous Harding shares a new song and video for ‘Fixture Picture’ from her forthcoming third album Designer, out April 26. Co-directed by Aldous Harding and Jack Whiteley, the video’s suspenseful opening scene finds Harding strumming her guitar on the white cliffs of Dover. The pay-off comes later with a dramatic and enigmatic live performance by…
MT WENT – Mt Went (Self Released, 2019)* Con il suo progetto artistico Seabuckthorn, sviluppato nella sua residenza alle pendici delle Alpi francesi, Andy Cartwright si è ormai ritagliano con personalità un proprio riconoscibile spazio espressivo, originato dal picking della sua chitarra ma sempre più orientato alla creazione di un’ambience tanto rarefatta quanto meditativa. Può…
DAMIEN JURADO – In The Shape Of A Storm (Mama Bird / Loose, 2019) Pur avendo sempre denotato una certa rapidità nella scrittura e nella produzione delle sue canzoni, questa volta Damien Jurado ha superato se stesso: “In The Shape Of A Storm” è il suo quattordicesimo album in poco più di vent’anni di attività…
[streaming] Michael Timmons – The Games Room
Single released 5th April 2019 on Gargleblast Records. Off the back of supporting The Twilight Sad at their sold out show at Glasgow Barrowlands and on their European tour in November 2018, singer songwriter Michael Timmons continues to exhibit a sparse, angst-ridden sound on his latest single, “The Games Room”. A sound that cuts deep…
[streaming] Curlicues – A New Beginning
First track out of “Private Life”, the new album by Curlicues, releases May 1st, 2019. Curlicues is the alter-ego of Sheffield-based writer and recording 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…
ADAM Y COHEN – ממדבר מתנה (Self Released, 2019) Tra gli aspetti positivi della planetaria diffusione dell’accesso alle piattaforme musicali online c’è senz’altro quello di consentire a musicisti al di fuori dei principali circuiti produttivi di mettere in circolazione le proprie creazioni. Per quanto disorientante e umanamente impossibile da seguire possa essere questa realtà, a…
VARGKVINT – Hav (Piano And Coffee, 2019)* Già il suo debutto “Brus” (2017) aveva impressionato e sorpreso per la capacità di coniugare ambientazioni neoclassiche ed eteree interpretazioni vocali; attesa alla seconda prova sotto l’alias Vargkvint, Sofia Nystrand mantiene fede alle premesse di evocativo minimalismo suggerite da quel lavoro, articolandole tuttavia in una formula che, senza…
[streaming] Jake Xerxes Fussell – The River St. Johns
Taken from “Out of Sight”, out June 7th via Paradise of Bachelors. On his third and most finely wrought album yet, guitarist, singer, and master interpreter Jake Xerxes Fussell is joined for the first time by a full band featuring Nathan Bowles (drums), Casey Toll (bass), Nathan Golub (pedal steel), Libby Rodenbough (violin, vocals), and…
WEYES BLOOD – Titanic Rising (Sub Pop, 2019) Al suo quarto album sotto l’alias Weyes Blood, Natalie Mering è sempre più distante dalle sue giovanili militanze avanguardiste, in maniera peraltro perfettamente conseguenziale rispetto al precedente, splendido, “Front Row Seat To Earth” (2016). Da lì trae appunto le mosse “Titanic Rising”, frutto di tre anni di…
[streaming] Emily Fairlight – Body Below
Taken from “Mother of Gloom”, out today on Fishrider Records (NZ) and in June on sister label Occultation Records in the UK. Emily Fairlight is a folk singer who lives in Dunedin, New Zealand. Fairlight makes self-described “doom folk,” which has earned comparisons with PJ Harvey (for the vocals), Will Oldham (for the writing) and…
MAKE LIKE A TREE – Mothernight (Ricco / This And That Tapes, 2019) Globetrotter per precisa scelta di vita, Sergey Onischenko torna a riassumere in una raccolta di canzoni firmate Make Like A Tree anni di viaggi, incontri e creazioni attraverso tre continenti. Come già il precedente “Animal” (2015), anche “Mothernight” vede la partecipazione di…
ROZI PLAIN – What A Boost (Memphis Industries, 2019)* La grande “spinta” riportata nel titolo del quarto album di Rosalind Leyden potrebbe essere interpretata anche come quella impressa dal gruppo di musicisti gravitanti intorno al Willkommen Collective allo sviluppo di linguaggi musicali che del folk traevano soltanto il germe iniziale, in seguito trasportato in direzioni…
[streaming] Flora Hibberd – The Absentee
Born in East London in 1995 and currently residing in Paris, Flora Hibberd has been described as ‘intelligent and measured…there is a profound intuition in her work’ and her songs as ‘deeply rooted in the timeless lyricism of Dylan and Cohen.’ With influences as diverse as Nick Cave, Joan Baez and Jacques Brel, she moves…
[streaming] Swimming Bell – For Brinsley
Taken from “Wild Sight”, out April 5th. Swimming Bell is the solo project of Brooklyn-based folk singer Katie Schottland, an intimate and conversational story where experience and forgotten memories blur into the last trailing rays from the setting sun. https://www.swimmingbell.com/
[streaming] Lucy Roleff – A Woman’s Worth
Estimable Melbourne folk artist, Lucy Roleff returns to us with “A Woman’s Worth”, the first offering from her new record “Left Open in a Room” – the follow-up to 2016’s, “This Paradise“. Drawing on the stories of women in her life, Roleff ponders on the weight of emotional labour and prioritisation of others, whilst trying…
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