From the digital single by Alaskan Tapes & The Last Dinosaur, out now via Bandcamp. In the artists’ words: “This was originally intended to be a beautiful 7″ record but the manufacturing industry is so backed up at the moment that it could be a year before that’s a reality so we’ve chosen to release…
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[video of the week] My Home, Sinking – Among the Ash (feat. Lindsay Anderson)
Taken from the album “Let It Fall” out now via 2020 Editions. Directed and edited by Gianguido Perzolla. My Home, Sinking is the ambient/modern classical/folk project of Enrico Coniglio. The new album features Lindsay Anderson (L’Altra band / Hefty Records) on vocals on two tracks; it comes with a stunning design by Chris Bigg. Carefully…
[video of the week] Efterklang – Living Other Lives
Taken from the new album “Windflowers”, out October 8th 2021 via City Slang. Efterklang is a Danish band consisting of the 3 childhood friends Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen & Rasmus Stolberg. Every year as spring arrives, a sea of tiny flowers blossom across the Danish forest floor. They’re an explosion of colour, a symbol of…
[video of the week] TJO – A Sunday 2020
On July 23, Orindal Records will release “Dispatches from the Drift”, a new album of solo synthesizer improvisations by TJO (aka Tara Jane O’Neil). Recorded at home in California between April 2020 & February 2021, Dispatches from the Drift plays like a series of private meditations; music made for the pure & joyous purpose of…
[video of the week] Mirabai Ceiba and Markéta Irglová – Take On A Thousand Forms
Taken from “A Quiet Hour”, out August 27th on Spirit Voyage. In an intimate duet, Mirabai Ceiba’s Angelika Baumbach and Academy-Award winning singer/songwriter Markéta Irglová bring the poetry of Goethe to life. Working with a core group of virtuoso musicians who each recorded from studios across the globe, multi-instrumentalist Jamshied Sharifi co-produced the album with…
[video of the week] Ida Wenøe – Echoes
New single from Nordic songstress Ida Wenøe taken from her forthcoming third album Amongst a digital mountain range littered with accomplished folk-ish bands and singersongwriters, it is a rare miracle to come across a cave so rich in jewels as the one beneath Ida Wenøe’s ribcage. While she has an obvious appreciation of Americana, her…
[video of the week] Hollie Kenniff – Sunset Chant
First single from “The Quiet Drift”, the new album by Hollie Kenniff, out on Western Vinyl July 16th, 2021. “On The Quiet Drift Hollie Kenniff wholly escapes pop-culture feedback loops into transcendent, shimmering realms, and she brings the listener along with her. In this age in which we have all been called to reevaluate our…
[video of the week] David John Morris – New Safe
Taken from David John Morris’s debut album ‘Monastic Love Songs’ – out May 21st 2021 via Hinterground Records. This is the first single taken from the debut solo album by the Cornish songwriter from Red River Dialect. It was written during the last weeks of a nine-month retreat at Gampo Abbey, a Buddhist monastery in…
[video of the week] Bryan Away – The Lake
From the upcoming album “Canyons to Sawdust”. Animated by Qianwen Yu. About the track: “The Lake” began in an email poem with the subject “Hello new email freestyle” to my then girlfriend who I was in a long distance relationship with. It was when I first registered the bryanaway.com domain, and I wanted to show…
[video of the week] Colleen – Hidden In The Current
Ahead of the release of her forthcoming new album The Tunnel and the Clearing on 21 May via Thrill Jockey, Colleen aka multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Cécile Schott, has shared the mesmeric new video for “Hidden in the Current”, directed by visual artist and animator Daniel Baretto. Closing out the record, “Hidden in the Current” forms the sonic and emotional climax of The…
[video of the week] BSÍ – Vesturbæjar Beach
New single by Icelandic duo BSÍ. Reykjavík’s central bus terminal BSÍ is no longer only the most miserable location you can find in all Iceland – it’s also finally reincarneted and praised as the name of a very new band. While people still wonder if BSÍ actually stands for Brussels Sprouts Intl., it’s at least sure…
[video of the week] Molly Linen – A Lot To Give
Written and performed by Molly Linen. Recorded at Green Door by Ronan Fay. Video directed and edited by Tommy Perman. Released on digital platforms on March 31, 2021 and via Lost Map’s PostMap Club subscription service in the month of April (backed with an exclusive remix by FOUND’s Tommy Perman), ‘A Lot to Give’ is…
[video of the week] Moneira – The Bird (Interesting to See)
“The Bird (Interesting to See)” is a minimalistic undertaking, sparsely arranged with piano and voice, at times accompanied by a lone mellotron. Moneira fits rightly within the Scandinavian Folk ballad traditions in the likes of Ane Brun, Frida Hyvönen or Stina Nordenstam. What are we but the sum of the experiences we carry within? Often…
[video of the week] Laura Masotto – Blue Marble
“Blue Marble” is the first single from “WE”, the new album by Laura Masotto, out on 7K! Records on June 11th 2021. “Blue Marble” is an evocative, powerful and emotional string-based track, born one morning towards the end of the first national lockdown. “I felt the energy in the notes I was playing, in the…
[video of the week] Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles – Dowsing
“Dowsing” is a track from “Keys,” available on LP/CD/Digital on April 9, 2021 from Drag City Inc. “Keys”, the forthcoming collaborative album from Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles, showcases the duo’s deep knowledge of folk traditions and their congenial improvisational coalescence. Performing only a handful of times before embarking on this project, Bowles and MacKay…
[video of the week] Quivers – Gutters of Love
Opening track of “Golden Doubt”, out June 11th 2021 via Ba Da Bing (US), Bobo Integral (Europe) & Spunk Records (Australia). Filmclip directed by the band from super 8 footage collected in late 2020 in Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia. Edited by Michael Panton. “Golden Doubt” is carried by shimmering guitars and the harmonizing vocals of…
[video of the week] epic45 & Babybird – Another Year
‘Another Year’ will be released on Friday 19th March 2021 via Wayside & Woodland Recordings on Bandcamp and other streaming services (Spotify, apple, Deezer etc). A bold return, as epic45 & Babybird collaborate on a brand new song ‘Another Year’ to be released digitally on Wayside & Woodland Recordings in March 2021. Ten long years…
[video of the week] Lady Dan – No Home
“Intro To Loss/No Home” is the second installment to Lady Dan’s upcoming album “I Am The Prophet”, out on April 23rd through Earth Libraries. Lady Dan is the project of Tyler Dozier, a singer-songwriter originally from Dothan, AL and now based in Austin. Dozier turned to music after a few major turning points in her…
[video of the week] Satomimagae – Numa
Taken from “Hanazono”, out April 23rd 2021 via RVNG Intl. Director: Soh Ideuchi Satomimagae’s “Hanazono” is an invitation to revel in your immediate and imagined surroundings, to make time and space for guileless curiosity and garden variety enchantment. A tribute to everyday mysticism, “Hanazono” is an ecology of simple, cyclical refrains and elegiac entreaties cross-pollinating…
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