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Badly Drawn Boy, Schauspieler Robert Carlyle und BBC-Moderator Huw Stephens sind nur einige der Bewunderer des irischen Folk-Singer/Songwriters Aaron Smyth. Nachdem dieser viel Lob für seine Arbeit als Vann Music erhielt, liefert er nun ein höchst beeindruckendes Solodebüt mit Anklängen an progressive Folk-Mavericks wie Fionn Regan (Bray) und Phil Selway (Radiohead). "Last Animals" wurde von Darragh Nolan (Asta Kalapa) produziert und von JJ Goden gemastert und erscheint auf gelbem Vinyl.

Bhi Bhiman ist ein US-amerikanischer Sänger, Songwriter und Produzent. Er erhielt kritischen Zuspruch und arbeitete mit Boots Riley, Rhiannon Giddens und dem verstorbenen Chris Cornell zusammen. Sein neuestes Album Peace of Mind bietet eine Mischung aus psychedelischem Rock, Pop und Folk mit modernem / elektronischem Produktionsstil. Jeder der 8 Songs hat ein anderes Thema; z.B. Einwanderung, Unterdrückung von Wählern, psychische Gesundheit usw. Gäste auf dem Album sind Dave Eggers, Reza Aslan, Rabia Chaudry und viele mehr.

Keys, the debut album from Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles, is, on first blush, a collection of guitar and banjo duets - but from the opening moment, it is clear that Bill and Nathan's agreed-upon duo is a living organism, growing as it goes. Behind the stately figures of "Idumea", a 19th century southern hymnal played out on their stringed instruments, a low organ drone hums persistently, signaling that this music, while coming from traditional places, is asking more of itself, seeking sparks of inspiration to light the path forward.Bill and Nathan met a few years back, if time has any meaning. It didn't seem to at the time - after the first night they hung out, it seemed as if they'd known each other for awhile already. A year later (2018, if you're counting), they were booked as a duo at Cropped Out. Preparing for playing the show involved a correspondence exchanging lots of provisional ideas, thoughts and music back and forth from Chicago to Durham NC, then dashing through the ideas again on the festival grounds an hour before the show. From this seemingly hectic preparation, their playing that night was remarkably serene, a spiritual treatise clothed in the casual and natural manner of the proverbial porch-, or in this case, riverside-jam, as the stage literally straddled the edge of the Ohio River! It was a stellar, simpatico first moment that asked for more moments like it.After several more sets the following year, they felt ready to roll tape (as the saying goes) and chose to do so in Chicago, with Nick Broste at The Shape Shoppe. Again, an easy rapport prevailed, allowing them to work through their collected ideas quickly and freely, with the moments of spontaneous decision that can come only with comfort and trust in each other's presence. Throughout Keys, Bill and Nathan propel their power-folk engine with intent and feeling, joy and solemnity, as images of wariness, wonder, anger, deliberation, forgiveness, trust and devotion rise up from the music and roll it forward into the unknown, a...