BUCK CURRAN – Immortal Light (ESP-Disk / Obsolete Recordings, 2016) Come un fulmine a ciel sereno, il sodalizio artistico e personale tra Buck e Shanti Curran è giunto al termine, lasciando in eredità i cinque incantati dischi realizzati insieme nei quasi dieci anni di attività del duo Arborea, vero e proprio ponte tra le radici polverose…
Tag: songwriter
[video of the week] Lizard Kisses – Take Comfort
Lizard Kisses is the collaborative songwriting project of Cory Siegler and Marc Merza. The duo have been releasing music over the past five years, working alongside different like-minded musicians in their Brooklyn community, including members of Florist, Mutual Benefit, and Share-a-tories as well as the Spookfish’s Dan Goldberg. Siegler and Merza front the Lizard Kisses…
[streaming] Julia Jacklin – Leadlight
“Leadlight” is on Julia’s debut album “Don’t Let The Kids Win”, which is out October 7th via Transgressive (UK/Europe/Asia), Polyvinyl (North America) and Liberation (Aus/NZ) Julia Jacklin thought she’d be a social worker. Growing up in the Blue Mountains to a family of teachers, Jacklin discovered an avenue to art at the age of 10,…
[streaming] Epilogues – Picture, Paper, Mirror
First single release from the forth Epilogues album, “My Captain”. Epilogues is the brainchild of London-based musician Mikey Donnelly. Epilogues have been firm purveyors of their unique brand of ethereal, contemplative folk for several years. Initially a totally solo venture, Donnelly launched Epilogues with the self-titled, debut EP in 2012, which was written and recorded…
[video of the week] Great Horned Owl – Cascade Summer Waltz
New single released on July 7th, 2016 via Crooked Antler Recordings. Music video by Vanderson Langjahr and Cheyenne Jensen. Download this single for free at http://music.greathornedowl.org. Great Horned Owl is the music project of multi-instrumentalist Vanderson Langjahr. Current members also include E. Hanson (electric guitar, vocals) and Cheyenne Jensen (bass, vocals). http://greathornedowl.org/
LUCY ROLEFF – This Paradise (Lost And Lonesome, 2016)* Una voce che viene da lontano, nello spazio e nel tempo: è quella di Lucy Roleff, cantautrice di Melbourne già segnalatasi con l’Ep “Longbows” (2013) e adesso al debutto ufficiale sulla lunga distanza con una raccolta di dieci brani intrisi di una distanza fisica, data la…
EMILY RODGERS – Two Years (Misra, 2016) I due anni richiamati dal titolo del secondo album di Emily Rodgers a proprio nome non corrispondono al tempo trascorso dal suo debutto “Bright Day”, risalente invece al 2009. In tale lungo arco temporale la cantautrice di Pittsburgh ha lasciato decantare il proprio profilo creativo, già in origine…
[streaming] Southern Moon – Sleeping Swan
Southern Moon is Teresa Louise, a folksy singer-songwriter based in Malmö, the south of Sweden. She plays electric guitar and writes and sings on all the songs she posts on her soundcloud page. All songs are produced by the great lo-fi artist Bakers At Dawn with whom she collaborates a lot. “Sleeping Swan” just came to Teresa during a yoga session…
EMMA RUSSACK – In A New State (Spunk, 2016) La nuova dimensione di un’artista solitaria, che fa leva sull’introspezione quale propria cifra espressiva, può coincidere con l’apertura del proprio piccolo mondo alla collaborazione realizzativa e al tempo stesso con la sempre più ostinata autonomia di ispirazione e scrittura. Entrambe le dinamiche ricorrono nel terzo album…
SICKER MAN – The Missing (blankrecords / Broken Silence, 2016) Tobias Vethake potrebbe essere l’archetipo dell’ampiezza di linguaggi raggiungibile dalla produzione casalinga: da oltre un decennio l’artista tedesco conduce sotto l’alias Sicker Man autentiche scorribande tra stili, impiegando un’ampia serie di strumenti che spaziano dall’acustico al sintetico. È quel che avviene anche nelle otto dense tracce…
[video of the week] Lucy Roleff – Aspen
Recalling the sublime fingerpicked purity of folk singers-past such as Bridget St John and Linda Perhacs, estimable Melbourne folk artist Lucy Roleff releases her debut album “This Paradise” via Lost And Lonesome on July 15, 2016. The follow-up to “Longbows” — Lucy’s acclaimed EP of 2013 — was recorded with Tony Dupé (Holly Throsby, Grand…
THE DRIFTWOOD MANOR – For The Moon (Folkwit, 2016)* La ricerca di tradizioni folk risalenti e di ambientazioni arcane rappresentano da sempre l’essenza espressiva dell’irlandese Eddie Keenan, il cui progetto The Driftwood Manor, spesso accompagnato da una varietà di collaboratori, ha sviluppato via via uno spiccato lirismo, tradotto in ballate dalle atmosfere antiche, innervate da…
MI AND L’AU – Four Pair Of Wings (Alter K, 2016) C’era una volta una casa in un bosco innevato e i dolci sospiri di due amanti sotto forma di scarne canzoni acustiche. Sono trascorsi oltre dieci anni dalle cartoline incantate confezionate in totale isolamento creativo da parte di Mira Anita Romantschuk e Laurent Leclère…
[video of the week] A Singer Of Songs – Tall Dreams
“Tall Dreams” is the first single of “Fading”, A Singer of Songs’ fifth studio album, out in September 2016 via Son Canciones. Jonas Balmer made the video, based on the photos Rafa Arocha took during the recording of the album in Pastallé Sound. “Tall Dream” has been featured as the latest “single of the week” of the radio show L’Attimo Fuggente….
[streaming] Emily Rodgers – No Last Call
Taken from “Two Years”, out in June via Misra Records. It’s clear from note one of Emily Rodgers’ new album, “Two Years”: she’s up to something a little different. Different from her past records, but different especially from so many of her contemporaries. In a world of indie-folk sameness, where epic and bombastic are the…
DAN MICHAELSON AND THE COASTGUARDS – Memory (The State51 Conspiracy, 2016) Si conclude all’insegna dei ricordi, del nostalgico rifugio nel passato, la trilogia in bianco e nero di Dan Michaelson, che con i suoi Coastguards ha scandagliato i diversi momenti di una storia d’amore, dal romanticismo di “Blindspot” (2013) alla dolorosa separazione di “Distance” (2014)….
ADAM HAYES – The Boy Next Door But One (Self Released, 2016) Da una casa delle Midlands a orecchie e cuori senzienti: parte così il “messaggio in bottiglia” di Adam Hayes, archetipo del cantautore “da cameretta” tale da mettere in circolazione scarni video delle proprie canzoni, registrati nel salotto di casa. Analogamente, anche nella sua…
[streaming] Owen – Settled Down
“Settled Down” appears on Owen‘s upcoming full-length album, “The King of Whys”, out 7/29/2016. Owen – the acclaimed solo musical guise of singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Mike Kinsella – has made an astonishing leap forward with The King of Whys, the first work in his two-decade-plus career to be made entirely outside of the greater Chicagoland area. Produced…
[video of the week] Benjamin Francis Leftwich – Mayflies
Taken from Benjamin Francis Leftwich’s forthcoming album “After The Rain”, out August 19th. Benjamin Francis Leftwich (born 4 September 1989) is an English singer-songwriter from York. Leftwich released his first album ‘Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm’ in 2011 which peaked at #35 on the UK charts. Leftwich began playing at the age of ten and…
music won't save you 