Taken from “Juniper Street”, out October 5th on Team Love Records. Portland, Oregon-based songwriter Darci Phenix bought her first bass guitar in her home town of Sacramento with the counsel of her mother, a lawyer turned musician, and Michael Roe, the leader of 80s rock group “The 77s.” A community of musicians and artists has…
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JAKE NICOLL – Stone Arch (Self Released, 2018) È opinione diffusa – e almeno in parte fondata – che la ritrovata attenzione posta sui linguaggi del folk non conduca a qualcosa di radicalmente nuovo, ma è anche vero che ogni lavoro a grandi linee inscritto nel loro paradigma reca con sé la personalità, la voce…
[streaming] Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover – Slow Talkin’
An organic farm in the middle of nowhere in Spain. Dry wind through dry leaves. Dogs sleeping a siesta in the sun. Rain that never comes. And horses. Always horses. This is wherethe critically acclaimed singer-songwriters Haley Heynderickx (Portland, Oregon) and Max García Conover (Portland, Maine) have been dropped off , along with a bunch of…
DAKOTA SUITE, DAG ROSENQVIST AND EMANUELE ERRANTE – What Matters Most (Karaoke Kalk, 2018)* La condivisione delle sensazioni e degli affetti più personali è ormai da tempo pratica ricorrente per Chris Hooson, che non manca di dischiudere l’intimità della propria ispirazione di scrittura e composizione ad altri musicisti che ne amplifichino il già pronunciato contenuto…
[streaming] Nighttime – Lamb’s Ear
Taken from “Hands In The Dark”, the new album by Nighttime, releases October 13th 2018. Nighttime is the haunting and ethereal folk of Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist Eva Louise Goodman. Layers of guitar, violin, ambient noise, and voice craft a dense yet elegant soundscape suspended somewhere between the droning lull of Grouper and the gauzy melodic pop…
[streaming] Rivulets – Everything Goes
Rivulets “Everything Goes”, taken from the upcoming album “In Our Circle”, out on Talitres, Oct. 19th, 2018. To simply categorize the music of Rivulets as spare or desolate is to unjustly deny it the hot blood sizzling through its very veins. Sure, on the band’s 6th album “In Our Circle”, there are prairies of space…
[streaming] David Allred – The Garden
Following on from last year’s collaborative release “Find The Ways” with Peter Broderick, the Californian singer and multi-instrumentalist David Allred returns with a first solo album on Erased Tapes out November 2nd, titled “The Transition”. Hailing from Loomis, a small town outside of Sacramento, via Portland, Oregon – David worked as a sound engineer and…
JFDR – White Sun Live. Part I: Strings (Morr Music, 2018) A un anno dal pregevole debutto solista “Brazil“, Jófríður Ákadóttir dà alle stampe il primo capitolo di quella che si era originata quale una semplice alternativa di arrangiamento di brani dei suoi progetti Pascal Pinon, Samaris e appunto JFDR. Assistita dalle orchestrazioni d’archi del compositore…
[streaming] Keto – Sublime Was The Warning
Taken from Keto’s debut album “Blackened Pool”, to be released on the 29th October 2018. Crowdfunder for LP here – finishes September 14th: https://qrates.com/projects/16513 Described as ‘incredibly dark, minimal songs, with dreamy backdrops.’ Detuned nylon string guitar and distinctive vocal, recorded together on one mic form the foundation of most of the tracks. With sparse piano,…
MAXINE FUNKE – Home Fi + Eternity (Brierfield Flood Press / I dischi del barone, 2018) Come lo stesso titolo lascia intendere, una raccolta di casalinghi bozzetti di canzoni, diffusa in occasione di un suo recente tour australiano, fa riaffiorare dal suo isolamento creativo Maxine Funke, sotterranea cantautrice di Dunedin. Maxine non corrisponde tuttavia al…
[streaming] Advance Base – Your Dog
“Your Dog” is taken from “Animal Companionship”, the new album by Advance Base, out September 21st on Run For Covers Records. Advance Base is the electronic solo project of Chicago, IL singer/songwriter Owen Ashworth (formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone). Using a two-handed arsenal of electric pianos, autoharps, Omnichords, loops, samples & drum machines,…
NED COLLETTE – Old Chestnut (It Records / Feeding Tube, 2018) Dopo oltre un decennio di artigianato cantautorale, per Ned Collette è giunto il momento di espandere il proprio spettro creativo, tanto in termini di contenuto quanto di respiro di un’opera che non può considerarsi semplicemente come il quinto album di una serie cominciata nel…
[streaming] Sucker Crush – Clementine
Taken from “Middle Mattress Chasm” E.P., just out on limited edition cassette via Ephemeral Stream Recordings. “Middle Mattress Chasm” is the debut studio offering from Sucker Crush, the solo songwriting project of Oakland-based musician/composer Marissa Deitz, formerly of The Vale. “Middle Mattress Chasm” is a concise reflection on loss and the deadweight of intimacy, as…
[video of the week] Juanita Stein – All The Way
Juanita Stein, the Howling Bells frontwoman turned solo artist, releases her brand new album, Until The Lights Fade, on Nude Records on 31st August. Stein, who has recently completed tour dates with The Killers and Bryan Ferry, as well as festival shows including Latitude and Green Man, has just announced a London headline show on…
TUNNG – Songs You Make At Night (Full Time Hobby, 2018)* Benché lo iato produttivo dei Tunng sia durato i cinque anni trascorsi dal precedente “Turbines”, in realtà è da “…And Then We Saw Land” (2010) che la sigla onomatopeica che contraddistingue la band inglese non era riferita alla combinazione delle sensibilità musicali di Mike…
[streaming] Kristin McClement – Love Doesn’t Have To Come At Such A Price
“Love Doesn’t Have To Come At Such A Price” is the first new track by Kristin McClement since her outstanding debut “The Wild Grips” (2015). Here are her own words about the track, shared earlier this week: “While climbing the mountain that is my second album (trying to finish songs that have been with me…
KIN HANA – Au Sable (Black Meadow, 2018) Quando un musicista di estrazione diversa si avvicina al formato del cantautorato acustico produce spesso risultati sorprendenti. Non fa eccezione Aaron Carroll Hodges, canadese finora dedito alla ricerca di oscure sonorità elettroniche e kraut-rock, che per cimentarsi per la prima volta con le canzoni utilizza come alias…
KATHRYN JOSEPH – From When I Wake The Want Is (Rock Action, 2018) L’intensità vocale ed esecutiva del debutto “Bones You Have Thrown Me And Blood I’ve Spilled” (2015) avevano già segnalato il peculiare carattere espressivo di Kathryn Joseph, ben distante dai cliché della “donna al piano”. Dopo un paio di singoli e numerose collaborazioni,…
[streaming] Me For Queen – In This Skin
Me for Queen aka Mary Erskine is inspired by people and their stories. Growing up feral in rural Fife/Scotland in a big old house near the sea, she started writing songs when she was 13, around the same time that she started dressing herself. At this time music was her method of making her mark…
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