Picture rural Wales. Somewhere about an hour or two from the nearest town. Somewhere on the edge of a deep, dark forest or somewhere that’s perched just next to a vast expanse of the Atlantic. Find that place and you’ll come close to finding the landscape that shapes Novo Amor’s music.
The Cardiff based multi-instrumentalist, better known to family and friends as Ali Lacey, brilliantly capture vast, melancholic scenes with his latest EP Woodgate NY. Blending his gentle vocals with guitars, banjos and the odd suspended bathtub (he also happens to be an experimental sound designer) Lacey recently signed to Brilliance Records, a small indie-folk label based on the west coast of Norway. in “Holland” for example you can hear the sound of an old garden hose being hit with a hammer. Whatever I think will give an added bit of interest or texture. Once you get the hang of it it’s quite a straight forward process. Each object makes a certain sound so once you’ve worked out what that sound is you can then pitch on a keyboard, and from those collections of sounds you can begin to construct a melody.
The Fat Angel Sings 