"Feelings" is one of my favourite tracks with its breakneck acoustic melody and dead-pan vocals. This is crafted and raw acoustic music and well worth a listen.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Willie Ames - night owl
California born singer-songwriter and skilled instrumentalist Willie Ames produces atmospheric alternative folk/rock with a bluesy and gritty edge with shades of Dylan. The title track "Night owl" is a perfect example of his style with hard picking and a vibe that seems to come straight out of a broken boxcar abandoned in the desert (under a starry sky natch).
"Desert run" has a relaxed acoustic feel underpinned by a slap melody which he apparently does himself while playing the guitar. Tracks like "Dance with you" have a simple yet effective melody. Tracks like "Black widow" are darker though and include some banjo, this is not happy bluegrass but hard and raw picking.
"Feelings" is one of my favourite tracks with its breakneck acoustic melody and dead-pan vocals. This is crafted and raw acoustic music and well worth a listen.
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"Feelings" is one of my favourite tracks with its breakneck acoustic melody and dead-pan vocals. This is crafted and raw acoustic music and well worth a listen.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Monday, October 29, 2012
The Dreamscape - la-di-da recordings (Kranky)
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c86,
CDs,
secret shine,
shoegaze
The Dreamscape, the lovely Dreamscape. A prototype Secret Shine if you will, they released a fantastic single "Blackflower" at the start of the 1990s... unfortunately that isn't on here but we do get the rest of the Dreamscape's product including their follow-up EP to Blackflower and some songs which never saw the light of day until now including their recorded but then buried third EP.
I've always liked the Dreamscape with its sometimes laid-back and atmospheric but also non-dominating shoegaze, mostly for Rebecca Rawlings vocals which rate among my all-time favourites. The songs are simple, vocals, guitars and drum machine but so effective. The Dreamscape certainly are one of those long-lost bands who should have been so much more, but there is no justice in the universe we all know that.
But happily in this case there was Secret Shine to follow and they did the odd decent tune...
I've always liked the Dreamscape with its sometimes laid-back and atmospheric but also non-dominating shoegaze, mostly for Rebecca Rawlings vocals which rate among my all-time favourites. The songs are simple, vocals, guitars and drum machine but so effective. The Dreamscape certainly are one of those long-lost bands who should have been so much more, but there is no justice in the universe we all know that.
But happily in this case there was Secret Shine to follow and they did the odd decent tune...
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Friday, October 26, 2012
Top 5 Records (October)
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1) la-di-da recordings - The Dreamscape
2) rapproacher - Class Actress
3) deception - Cave Cat
4) all things must pass - George Harrison
5) afar - The Ice Choir
2) rapproacher - Class Actress
3) deception - Cave Cat
4) all things must pass - George Harrison
5) afar - The Ice Choir
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