by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Premiere | Linda Vogel – Isis & Osiris
We’ve discovered a new drug. We’re not yet sure of its name, but it’s delivered through the fingers and the voice of harp-extraordinaire Linda Vogel. The Swiss is following up her debut EP with a new single ‘Isis & Osiris’,…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Video Premiere | March to May – ‘If I Told You I Could Stay’
Comprised of singer-songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Darren Guyaz and Beth Wesche, March to May incorporates a broad palette of harp, piano, strings, and horns into their sound. Together, they develop a delicate world set somewhere between that eternal, magnetic push and…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Single | Benjamin Dean Wilson – ‘The Smartest Person in the Room’
Benjamin Dean Wilson’s newest single, ‘The Smartest Person in the Room’, opens with a compelling swirl of the fiddle. Its warm, full sound may indicate that more of the type of chestnut folk or bluegrass music that you’ve grown up…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Jasmine Karimova – From the Womb
Every so often, an artist emerges from the woodwork with music so brilliant that you can just tell that they are headed places. Such was the case with the likes of Orange Room-era Ed Sheeran or Hozier from the moment he dropped…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | King Ropes – Green Wolverine
If the story of Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs is anything to go by, sometimes you don’t even need to leave the comfort of your own garage to deliver something innovative to the world. Now, that isn’t to say that…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Video Premiere | Ben Noble – Little One (Living Room Session)
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: a songwriter from the American Midwest who retreated to a cabin to record his debut album. Yeah, you’re probably thinking about Bon Iver right now. But shift your sights from Wisconsin to…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | Jarle Skavhellen – ‘Coming Home’
Evoking shades of Noah Gundersen and The Tallest Man on Earth, Norwegian up-and-comer Jarle Skavhellen presents ruminative, lilting folk to captivate the senses. In this case, the atmospheric layers of sound that Skavhellen introduces to listeners in ‘Coming Home’ represents…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Paul Maged – The Glass River
Sometimes, artists burst out of their respective scene with a real humdinger straightaway. Most of the time, however, music takes time to settle into and own, regardless of passion. For every Jackson 5 bursting out of the scene in preadolescence,…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Video | Arden and the Wolves – ‘Poison Heart’
In her pursuit of music and magick, Arden Leigh has taken a multi-folded path in life. What seems to converge these paths more than even the creative light between them, though, is a search for passionately expressed truths. You can…
There are records which, from the moment you start listening to them, let you enter their unique world, connected but different from the real one. This pervasive feeling cannot but come from a very clear, honed by time and work,…