Posts Tagged ‘singer songwriter’

MITSKI – ” Folkadelphia Session ” ​26​th April 2015

Posted: December 24, 2015 in MUSIC
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Folkadelphia Sessions are completely free, just enter $0 when prompted. That being said, any donation you give here on our Bandcamp site will be used to help us bring you more exciting projects and developments from Folkadelphia! .Recorded at the WXPN Performance Studio on April 26th, 2015 by James Clark Conner and Brian Goehrig. Mixed by Conner in Philadelphia. The first half of the album’s opening track is a beautiful, restrained ballad, which aches with quivering vulnerability. The second half of that same track is a screeching, thumping rock song. And the rest of the album continues in this brilliantly contradictory vein, layering Mitski’s emotive, scale-leaping vocals over squelchy rock riffs and a sea of noise. Its lyrics, too, are astoundingly beautiful

Songs:

First Love/Late Spring

Francis Forever  I Don’t Smoke, I Will, 

Last Words Of A Shooting Star

Philadelphia-located folk music organization, WXPN radio show, airing Wednesdays 10-11 PM ET on 88.5 FM orxpn.org, and WKDU radio show

BETH BOMBARA – ” Give Me Something “

Posted: December 24, 2015 in MUSIC
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Beth Bombara is a singer-songwriter from St. Louis. Drawing inspiration from artists ranging from Gillian Welch to Laura Veirs, she writes frank, elegantly-crafted Americana. Her fifth, self-titled album will be out later this year

St. Louis is the only place Beth Bombara could have created her fifth album, which borrows gracefully from the city’s proud alt-country and blues traditions while embodying the collaboration, experimentation and resolve of the tight-knit scene developing there today.

Beth has been a musician for most of her life. She started a punk band in high school and, after college, began playing guitar with Samantha Crain. She moved to St. Louis and started a solo project in late 2007. “The city requires you to be active in your engagement of it,” she says. “There’s not much room for takers. But if you put in the work, the city rewards you.”

Today, Beth tours extensively across the country and is hailed as one of St. Louis’ finest songwriters. She is equally comfortable headlining the rock club Off Broadway and the Missouri Botanical Gardens’ Whitaker Music Festival, where she recently performed for a crowd numbering over 10,000.

Beth’s new, self-titled album displays its authors’ finest work to date. Previous efforts have served as explorations of Beth’s musical personality (you’ll find records written in the languages of folk, rock and Americana in her back-catalog). There is no easy way to describe the new album. It is full of crafty melody and effortless instrumentation. Her lyrics find the shortest path to the truth.

This also marks a major progression in Beth’s collaboration with her husband, fellow musician and producer Kit Hamon. “We’ve always worked together on Beth Bombara records,” she says. “They’re an extension of our relationship, and the efforts that make a good song are not unlike the efforts that make a healthy relationship. Whether the result of that work is good or bad has to do with how graciously we can sort the strong ideas from the weak ones.” On this new album, they have found grace and strength to spare.

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HARRISON STORM – ” Broken Feather “

Posted: December 22, 2015 in MUSIC
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Harrison Storm is a 23 year old singer/songwriter based in Melbourne. Harrison Storm gave Melbourne Unplugged a great acoustic performance of his original song ‘Broken Feather’.

This was recorded in the grounds at Abbotsford convent, which lent its warm and historical feel to the vibe of the video.

His much anticipated debut EP ‘Sense Of Home’ was noted as “Stunning” when released in April 2015. It was recorded with producer Hayden Calnin and mastered at Studios 301 by Andrew Edgson (Vance Joy, Matt Corby, Angus Stone).
The first single ‘Be Yourself’ has already received over 500,000 plays on Sound Cloud, airtime on Triple J and Triple R along with highly praised live performances on ABC radio Australia. It also gained airplay overseas on US radio KCRW after spending a number of weeks in the Hype Machine top 50 most blogged songs.
Harrison has gained invaluable experience playing at venues across Melbourne such as The Toff In Town, The Evelyn Hotel, Howler, The Workers Club, Gershwin Room and The Shebeen whilst sharing the stage with acts such as Husky, Kagu, Daniel Champagne and Woodlock. For all those people asking about a physical copy of the EP, they’re available through my band camp site: https://harrisonstorm.bandcamp.com/

HARRISON STORM – ” Sense Of Home “

Posted: December 21, 2015 in MUSIC
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Produced and Mixed by Hayden Calnin, Justin Lewis playing some guitar, Ruby Whiting on backing vocals.

Harrison Storm singer/songwriter based in Melbourne, Australia.

Harrison Storm is a 22 year old singer/songwriter based in Melbourne.
Harrison is greatly influenced by hischildhood, where he grew up by the beautiful beaches of the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria. Exposed to music from a young age through his mother’s guitar playing and father’s poetry, Harrison began creating his own music inspired by his parents’ record collection.

Four great songs that deeply speak to the heart and soul. A very smooth combination of voice and music.

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LUKE SITAL SINGH – ” The Breakneck Speed of Tomorrow EP “

Posted: December 20, 2015 in MUSIC
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This seems to return to his roots. The songs are of a very high quality and his vocals are spot on as usual. ‘Still’ and the title track are very catchy. With brilliant song-writing , Such a great talent, surely it can`t be long before Luke makes it into everyones music collection.

The release is to arrive via RayGun after Luke Sital-Singh’s departure from previous label Parlophone Records. He’s shared a “bio” which you can read at the bottom of the page, detailing his experiences over the past few years.

The Breakneck Speed Of Tomorrow is out now digitally, and it follows last year’s debut LP The Fire Inside. There will also be a limited edition 10″ vinyl (with hand-printed sleeve) which came out on 25th September.

BILL RYDER JONES – ” Wild Roses “

Posted: December 20, 2015 in MUSIC
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Bill Ryder-Jones – Wild Roses (Official Video) This is Bill’s finest album to date, and a master class in how to write painfully honest vignettes about the struggles of everyday day life. These stories from the urban prairie are  told with compassion and a wry wit which should finally cement Ryder-Jones reputation as one of the UK’s finest young songwriters.
Taken from the album ‘West Kirby County Primary’ out now:

BRIANA MARELA – ” Surrender / Take Care Of Me “

Posted: December 19, 2015 in MUSIC
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Briana Marela is an ambient pop/experimental singer/songwriter from Seattle. I don’t know anything about her and had never heard of her until I got an email promoting the new album, which came out this year on  Jagjaguwar Records.

She self-released a cassette-only album called Water Ocean Lake in 2010, followed by the Speak From Your Heart album in 2012. She immediately got to work on the new album, writing the songs in 2012/2013. Through a series of circumstances, her new songs found their way into the hands of Sigur Rós producer Alex Somers, and they started working together in Iceland to get All Around Us made. At some point in the process, she joined the roster at Jagjaguwar. While this is her third album, it’s the first with label support and the first that will have a significant tour to back it. Her tour, by the way, is a run through North America as the opening act for ambient/electro songstress Jenny Hval.

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”I started out that song with just the chorus, ‘you take care of me like I’m the only one’. I had written the first verse for it, then I felt that I wanted a song with a beat and I had a little Casio keyboard with beats on it. I’d recorded different beats and put them in a computer, then I panned one left and the other right before I put them together and slowed it down a bit. There was something with the beat that I liked. From there I just recorded the vocals I had over it and then started writing chords. There was an earlier demo version that was on a cassette compilation in a magazine called The Believer, a very early version of the song when I just had recorded it. This guy Calvin Johnson from K Records had asked me to put it on the compilation, and I was like ‘okay, it’s not really done yet but I’ll put it out”.

I wrote it about the person I was dating at the time. I’ve really only had two big relationships in my life, I’m kind of flick, I don’t really date people that much. I’m kind of shy and weird. So it was my second big relationship and it was a lot different than my first where I felt like I was the one nurturing the other person a lot, trying to help take care of him. Making sure things were okay for him, he was an artist and kind of unstable. Then the second was almost the opposite, I was the unstable one, frantic and weird and he was always helping me. I felt it was so nice to be helped and have someone who made things right when you were just feeling helpless and distraught.”

– Briana Marela

SMALL HOUSES feat. SAMANTHA CRAIN – ” Seventeen in Roselore “

Posted: December 19, 2015 in MUSIC
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”A fun thing I like to tell people about this song cites the 3rd verse. ‘Now the ferry way back 88, while John sang Crain and Hearst’. The ‘Ferry’ is in reference to my car, The Cripple Creek Ferry, which comes from a Neil Young song. 88 is a highway that cuts through Illinois. John Davey, a fella that sings on my record, is humming along with songs by Samantha Crain and Cary Ann Hearst (Shovels & Rope). Sort of a loaded couple of lines!

I wrote the song in the wake of moving out of a town in Michigan called Kalamazoo. There are references to places around the area like Water St., and Scio county. Getting Samantha Crain involved is a pretty simple task for Small Houses. She sings with me whenever we get the chance. When we were still recording, Samantha was on her way overseas to do a string of shows with Neutral Milk Hotel. I told her to make sure her layover was in Atlanta so we could fit in a day of catching up. I picked her up from the airport, we went straight to the studio, sang some songs, and within a few hours I was driving back towards the plane.”

EAVES – ” Dove In Your Mouth “

Posted: December 17, 2015 in MUSIC
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Folk singer Joseph Lyons, aka Eaves, doesn’t sound like a 23-year old and his debut LP What Green Feels Like doesn’t feel like a debut album. Eaves’ lyrics and sound are unbelievably mature for his age. What Green Feels Like is one of the most underrated records of the year but to be fair, it’s not an album you can fully appreciate if you listen to it in your daily metropolitan life. It demands a more intimate and quiet environment, only then you can really discover record’s rewards.

BARNS COURTNEY – ” Goodbye John Smith “

Posted: December 17, 2015 in MUSIC
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A Tom Waits comparison is the cross to bear for every male singer-songwriter with a deep baritone, so Barns Courtney might as well get used to that. In reality, this piano ballad hovers somewhere between Waits, Tom O’Dell and Carl Barat’s more tender moments (the latter perhaps shouldn’t be a surprise, seeing as Barns and he have written together). Anyway, it’s very pretty and with supports sets with The Libertines and Ed Sheeran behind him, and one with The Who coming up. you sense he won’t be ‘new’ that much longer.

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