ALASDAIR ROBERTS – Pangs (Drag City, 2017) Come pochi altri cantautori folk di questi anni Alasdair Roberts incarna la sintesi tra contemporaneità creativa e linguaggi musicali radicati in tradizioni secolari. Nella sua alternanza di collaborazioni e album pienamente solisti, di riletture di classici e brani originali, l’artista scozzese presenta nel suo nono album “Pangs” una…
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[streaming] Ned Roberts – Drifting Down
“Drifting Down” is the opening track from “Outside My Mind”, the new album by Ned Roberts, out March 24th via Aveline Records. Ned Roberts is an acoustic singer-songwriter based in London. Ned first started gigging when living up in York, playing old folk covers and the odd Dylan tune. Not long after writing his first…
[streaming] Ian William Craig – Contain
Taken from the forthcoming album-length EP, “Slow Vessels”, released May 5th on 130701 / FatCat Records. Ian William Craig is a Canadian musician known for using broken tape machines. He is based in Vancouver. Craig was classically trained in vocal performance and uses modified tape reels to distort his recorded voice. Music magazine Rolling Stone…
TIMID, THE BRAVE – Firesale (Other Songs Music Co., 2017) Compassati come la sua musica sono i tempi di creazione di Tim Selles, che ha impiegato ben cinque anni per dare un seguito al suo omonimo debutto sotto l’alias Timid, The Brave. Frutto di un certosino lavoro da autentico artigiano delle canzoni, “Firesale” conferma tutti…
[video of the week] Tom Woodward – Beautiful Shadows
Single from the album “Beautiful Shadows”, available March 8th, 2017. Born in Canberra, 1984, alt-country singer songwriter Tom Woodward has performed countless gigs by himself and with his bands The Henchmen, The Spirits of the Dead and The Mating Season at various pubs, clubs and festivals across Australia. His songs are imaginative depictions of human…
NADIA REID – Preservation (Spunk / Basin Rock, 2017)* Quasi per caso, due anni fa, il nome di Nadia Reid ha cominciato a circolare nel microcosmo indipendente internazionale, superando l’isolamento fisico e creativo della sua Nuova Zelanda, dove alla fine del 2014 aveva pubblicato l’album di debutto “Listen To Formation, Look For The Signs”. Ci…
[streaming] Raoul Vignal – Hazy Days
“Hazy Days” is the first single taken from Raoul Vignal’s upcoming “The Silver Veil”. From 2010 to this day, 26-year-old Raoul Vignal has been playing authentic, modern folk music. Forming the essence of his compositions, soothing vocals and delicate fingerpicking played on alternate tunings are Vignal’s trademark. His music has often been described by audience…
[streaming] My North Eye – How Many?
Taken from “My North Eye II”, out now via Reverb Worship. My North Eye is the one-man band by Yann Lafosse (ex Dirge). My North Eye plays intimate and minimal rock songs on guitar and harmonium, that can make think to Silver Mount Zion never lifting, or a male Nico or even La Monte Young with a melodic…
MOLLY BURCH – Please Be Mine (Captured Tracks, 2017) Non più solo nostalgie wave hanno diritto di cittadinanza in casa Captured Tracks: benché già da qualche tempo, l’etichetta newyorkese sia andata ampliando lo spettro delle proprie proposte, un album come “Please Be Mine” sembra fatto apposta per scompaginare certezze, ridefinendo il paradigma di un contesto…
[streaming] Brenda Xu – Lovely Storm
“Lovely Storm” is the first single off of the album “Overflow” by Brenda Xu, out on March 24th. Ambient/folk artist, Brenda Xu (pronounced “shoo”) has been building a steady following since her arrival on the Seattle music scene a few years ago. The momentum she created with the release of her last album “For The…
[video of the week] Chantal Acda – Fight Back
Taken from the new album by Chantal Acda, “Bounce Back”, coming April 21st at Glitterhouse Records. Chantal Acda released her first solo album ‘Let Your Hands Be My Guide’ in 2013, followed by the evenly beautiful ‘The Sparkle In Our Flaws’ in 2015. Past collaborators and musical soul mates include Nils Frahm, Peter Broderick, Heather…
SHANNON WRIGHT – Division (Vicious Circle, 2017) Trascorsi ormai vent’anni da quando la sua figura di ragazza fragile e aggressiva con la chitarra elettrica aveva colpito l’immaginario dell’universo indipendente, Shannon Wright ha trovato una propria collocazione creativa defilata rispetto all’attenzione generale. In quella dimensione, l’artista originaria della Florida non ha comunque smesso di dosare la…
[streaming] Christine Leakey – Walks Like An Angel (feat. Linda Perhacs)
Taken from Christine Leakey second solo record, “Wanderlust Wishing Well”, due out March 3rd. Once upon a music time, a 10 month old baby named Christine began to whistle. Then at 3, she sang made up songs to her dog. She took piano from a belching nun at 9 and taught herself guitar at 22….
HAND HABITS – Wildly Idle (Humble Before The Void) (Woodsist, 2017) Pur essendo originato da una dimensione “da cameretta”, il debutto sotto l’alias Hand Habits della newyorkese Meg Duffy ha qualcosa di diverso rispetto a quelli di tanti giovani artisti che si affacciano alla produzione musicale. Non solo, infatti, la Duffy è stata scoperta ed…
[video of the week] Aldous Harding – Horizon
“Horizon” by Aldous Harding, out now on 4AD/Flying Nun. Aldous Harding’s music is not for the faint of heart. Disarming in its desolate imagery and stark instrumentation, it deals with the raw materials of life: death, birth, grief and love. There are few happy endings, but the power is in how Harding enters into battle;…
[streaming] Moon Moon Moon – Hazelverse
Moon Moon Moon is a universe created by Mark Lohmann, a 23-year-old musician from Heerhugowaard, The Netherlands. His illustrations, music and games are all part of his personal, dark fairytale. He fills his days working on this Gesamtkunstwerk from his bedroom studio. In 2014, Mark recorded his debut album “I Want! I Want!” at home,…
NOEMIENOURS – Songs From The Life Of Bears E.P. (Self Released, 2016) Quattro tracce per poco più di una dozzina di minuti sono più che sufficienti per scoprire una voce sommessa ed espressiva, che in una raccolta dimensione personale crea delle autodefinite ninnenanne slo-fi, animate da una sensibilità tutta femminile per il mondo animale, legata a…
[video of the week] Shevek – Analysis
From the “Jonasstrasse” EP released through Musclemilk Records on 3rd February 2017. Shevek is the new project by Tristram Bawtree (Tristram, Eye And No Eye). Shevek cobbles together noises to arrest the slow slide into apathy. Sings songs about care-work, Paul Auster novels, hubris, the Id, staring at cities from a distance, and trying to…
[streaming] Emma Gatrill – Skin
Taken from the album “Cocoon”, out March 17th. Emma Gatrill is a multi-instrumentalist based in Brighton, UK. Her debut, 2012’s “Chapter I“, was a poignant collection of songs based around her then-latest acquisition – the harp. Subtly accompanied by various members of Brighton’s Willkommen Collective, her intricate harp playing coupled with a unique vocal fragility…
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