Posts Tagged ‘Guernsey’

MURA MASA – ” Someday Somwhere ” EP

Posted: November 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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Gorgeously downcast, glitchy garage-pop … Mura Masa (No 78)

Alex Crossan (vocals, music) from Guernsey in the Channel Islands,

The background: Round about this time of year, everyone pretends not to care who is going to feature in the BBC’s annual Sound of… poll. So you can start filing your nails now as we tell you that Mura Masa – along with Frances, Jack Garratt, Alessia Cara, Honne, Rat Boy, Tink, Clean Cut Kid, Billie Marten, Loyle Carner and Nao – will be appearing in the Sound of 2016 longlist.

Mura Masa’s real name is Alex Crossan and his alias is taken from a 16th-century Japanese swordsmith “possessed of a violent and ill-balanced mind verging on madness”. Crossan is unlikely to come at you with a scimitar, but the poor thing, still only 19, has been feeling the after-effects of a particularly nasty split. “I recently went through my first really terrifying breakup, and I can’t express how powerful that is for me,” he admitted. “It’s not something to be shy of or try and avoid; catharsis is so healthy. I feel like a lot of really seminal records come from being deeply upset.”.

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Crossan – who got into music through his dad’s Yes and Joni Mitchell records – has been using that heartache as grist to his production and songwriting mill. He’s like Hudson Mohawke if he fell in (and out of) love and used all of that maximal energy of his to create gorgeously downcast, glitchy garage-pop. His latest single, Love for That – featuring Shura, who incidentally was in the Sound of 2015 poll – is decorously detailed and danceable, He employs instruments you wouldn’t expect – flute, thumb piano, bells – and tones and timbres you’d imagine might jar, and somehow makes them work in a club context.

 

ROBYN SHERWELL – ” Islander ” EP

Posted: February 20, 2015 in MUSIC
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Robyn Sherwell’s new single is an excellent pick-me-up. The London-based singer packs rumbling percussion, lush, irresistible vocals, and a head-bobbing pop melody into “Islander.” Inspired by her days growing up in Guernsey—an island located in the English Channel—the groovy three-minute track sounds like a tribal dance party that lasts til sunrise. In other words, exactly what you need to get through the winter, because, it’s only the beginning. Just take it from Sherwell:
“The song was written in 2013 and recorded in David Kosten’s studio in West London that year. I’ve always been a bit fixated on the idea of home and belonging. My family moved around a far bit when I was small and eventually settled in Guernsey which is a pretty unique place to grow up. The song references the island’s past and explores that feeling of knowing a place well, knowing it is part of you, but also the conflict of needing to get away from what you know so well too. It was written in minutes, almost—it was a quick one! Just banging drums and vocals in the first instance, and that’s still the basic vibe. I wasn’t sure if it was really anything special until David heard my rough demo and insisted it should go on the record.
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ROBYN SHERWELL – ” Islander “

Posted: November 20, 2014 in MUSIC
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Winter’s upon us and while nothing can slow the forthcoming cold nights and frosty mornings and dark days, Robyn Sherwell’s new single is an excellent pick-me-up. The London-based singer packs rumbling percussion, lush, irresistible vocals, and a head-bobbing pop melody into “Islander.” Inspired by her days growing up in island of Guernsey the groovy three-minute track sounds like a tribal dance party that lasts til sunrise .it’s exactly the type of sound that you need to get through the winter, Sherwell says of the song,

“The song was written in 2013 and recorded in David Kosten’s studio in West London that year. I’ve always been a bit fixated on the idea of home and belonging. My family moved around a far bit when I was small and eventually settled in Guernsey which is a pretty unique place to grow up. The song references the island’s past and explores that feeling of knowing a place well, knowing it is part of you, but also the conflict of needing to get away from what you know so well too. It was written in minutes, almost Just banging drums and vocals in the first instance, and that’s still the basic vibe. I wasn’t sure if it was really anything special until David heard my rough demo and insisted it should go on the record.”

ROBYN SHERWELL – ” Low ” and ” Love Somebody “

Posted: October 26, 2014 in MUSIC
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Singer Songwriter Robyn Sherwell is from the small island of Guersney but now moved to London, “Love Somebody” is a sultry vocal track  quietly confident and very soulful pop a perfect song for any occasion available on Birdland Records, been promoted by BBC radio presenter Lauren Laverne and recently played on the wonderful Simon Raymonde radio show on Amazing Radio station. Sherwell’s acoustic driven songs have been helping her increase fan base.

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