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Der Nachfolger zum 2019er Blue With Lou-Album! Nils Lofgren, aufgenommen in die Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Mitglied der E Street Band und Crazy Horse sowie Solokünstler, meldet sich mit einem klanglich und visuell beeindruckenden Werk zurück. Es waren ein paar arbeitsreiche Jahre für den Rocker Nils Lofgren, und es wird nicht ruhiger. Nachdem er als Mitglied von Neil Youngs Crazy Horse sowohl das Barn-Album (und den für einen Grammy nominierten Film) als auch das World Record-Album (produziert von Neil Young und Rick Rubin) aufgenommen hat, gefolgt von dem kürzlich erschienenen Album All Roads Lead Home der Bandmitglieder Molina, Talbot, Lofgren und Young und nach dem Abschluss der Aufnahmen für sein neues Soloalbum Mountains, erhält Nils einen Anruf, dass Bruce Springsteen und die E Street Band auf eine ausgedehnte Welttournee gehen werden. Aber während die Solotournee also auf Eis gelegt wurde, müssen die Fans nicht auf Nils' neues Studioalbum Mountains warten. Auf Mountains bewegt sich Nils nahtlos zwischen bluesigen und geradlinigen Rockern und zarten Balladen, wie nur wenige es können, alles mit Nils' klanglicher Detailverliebtheit, unverwechselbarem Gesang und speziellen Gitarre veredelt . Mountains enthält Nils' beste Geschichten in ihrer besten Form, mit 9 brandneuen Eigenkompositionen und einer Coverversion von Bruce Springsteens Back In Your Arms. Zu den namhaften Gästen auf dem neuen Album gehören Neil Young, Ringo Starr, David Crosby, Cindy Mizelle, der Howard Gospel Choir und Ron Carter. Die Bandkollegen von Vorgänger Blue With Lou, Andy Newmark und Kevin McCormick, sind erneut dabei. Nils merkt an: "Da wir in den letzten Jahren der Pandemie mit neuen und ungewohnten Herausforderungen konfrontiert waren, habe ich Mountains geschrieben und aufgenommen, um diese Reise zu reflektieren. Ich kann mich nicht erinnern, dass ich mich bei einem neuen Album stärker gefühlt habe. Rau, zärtlich, ein inspiriertes Werk für mich, dankbar." Mountains wurde von Nils und seiner Frau Amy produziert. Er fügt hinzu: "Ich bin begeistert, diese neue, sehr persönliche und emotionale Musik zu teilen. Das atemberaubende Artwork stammt von Künstlers Ed Mell, LP im Gatefold mit bedruckter Inenhülle, CD als Digi-Sleeve mit Booklet.

In the past two decades, Tashi Dorji has travelled a long road. Making several dozen albums and touring the world, playing his guitar solo and in tandem with inspired others. Gifted with a sensitive and restless ear, he reaches through his guitar to find new sounds. The title of this forthcoming record, Stateless, is about more than just playing one's way into somewhere else. It invites us to perceive hair-raising truth; these are free pieces in more ways than one.A native of Bhutan, Tashi has lived in Asheville NC with his family since 2000. His career as a musician has flourished during this time - even as, in recent years, the government presiding over this country that he and we call home has taken a series of entirely despicable positions on the status of immigrants, refugees and foreigners of all kinds. On any level that we can imagine, this is a corrupt human policy. Our immigrant ancestors once lived in fear - must immigrants always? Or is this the cluttered and sinking path of a nation drifting into a sea change?Stateless is a probing recital in which music, the texture of the instrument and the nature of the moment in which it is played are all of equal significance. Like a sculptor, Tashi flecks away at his acoustic guitar, percussive strikes discovering the shades of folkish melodies within, while continuously shaping other contours in a flow of improvised actions.Stateless measures the miles on the charred highway we're all presently stalled upon - not going home again, at time on a march for no reason, other moments insensibly in the weeds, rummaging, looking for something.

A new instrumental album of acoustic guitar playing from Six Organs of Admittance's Ben Chasny!KPM Music, the legendary British library music company, extended an offer to Ben to make some songs for their library. The field of library music (music made for hire, for use in placement in films and advertising) is one that's come to public consciousness only relatively recently in the long century of record-making, but the influence of such records has been felt for years in the aesthetics of many diverse artists, including several who've recorded for Drag City. So it's a special thing for Drag City, whose appreciation for Ben's unique artistry has been borne out over a countless variety of releases, to issue this really amazing entry in both the KPM Music tradition and the ever-expanding Ben Chasny/Six Organs of Admittance ouvre.Ben chose the acoustic guitar for these recordings after considering the width and breadth of possible music he could make for the occasion. His approach while playing it was simple - deceptively so: to make music as present and immediate and beautiful as possible. This type of playing requires a deep breath before beginning, as it has to generate from within, as well as at the fingertips.The resulting music is inventive and engaging, both in and out of the astral style of Ben's music and the utilitarian genre of music to which he's contributing. The album's title is a clue to these dual intentions, as is Ben's use of his given name rather than the 6OOA alias he has preferred in his career. These songs manifest lovely themes played on acoustic guitar, recorded with spacious, almost pastoral ambiance; richly evocative pieces that can fill the multiple purposes of any sound library around the world.Two decades-plus into his life in music, Ben's got the craft and ability to make music that can be encompassingly heard as intimate AND universal.Going for melody, Ben employs a relaxed technical facility, supported by a few guitar overdubs, plus several well-placed synths and a...

Ty Segall meets a new non-rock challenge head-on; soundtrack music for the documentary film Whirlybird. A variety of synth sounds, electric keyboards, drums, percussion and saxophone (and yeah, a few guitars) form a shifting impressionist counterpart, instrumental music that dialogues with and serves to frame the film's compulsive themes and images.

"I've been driving through the darkness....through the smoke and fire on the ground"Lingering at the remains of a campfire before dawn, with the politics of the personal burnt into ash, running his stick through what's left, Wand singer/guitarist Cory Hanson is reflecting on a series of moments in which he steps farther into himself, finding the ultimate big sky country on the inside of his skull. It's a combination of songs and sounds that journey through bleak and broken territory and places of sweet, lush remove, and it adds up to the best record he's been involved in yet: his second solo album, Pale Horse Rider.Cory's first solo, The Unborn Capitalist From Limbo, was an intense affair, a grand experiment that produced inspiring, unconventional music - but this time around, he wanted to breathe a bit easier, to feel that breath in the music as well. So he and his band drove out to the desert to record in a low-stress environment: Brian Harris' Cactopia, a house surrounded by 6ft tall sculptural psychotropic cacti. They built a studio inside and then they made music and lived off pots of coffee and chili and cases of Miller High Life as they played guitars, bass, keyboards and drums in what seemed increasingly like a living biomech, their tech made out of fungal networks and cacti needles.It was loose and flowed onto tape well. Recorded by Robbie Cody and Zac Hernandez (who assisted on Wand's Laughing Matter), the sounds were great from the get-go. First takes were mostly best takes. Fueled with DNA lifted from country-rock cut with native psych and prog strands, Cory guided his craft toward the cosmic side of the highway, a benevolent alien in ambient fields hazy with heat and synths, early morning fog and space echo spreading the harmonies wide.Pale Horse Rider's got a lot to get out of its mind, looking around and seeing that, on the surface, things don't always look like much. A lifelong Californian, Cory's naturally found himself standing to the left of most of the country. The west may b...

Der Nachfolger zum 2019er Blue With Lou-Album! Nils Lofgren, aufgenommen in die Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Mitglied der E Street Band und Crazy Horse sowie Solokünstler, meldet sich mit einem klanglich und visuell beeindruckenden Werk zurück. Es waren ein paar arbeitsreiche Jahre für den Rocker Nils Lofgren, und es wird nicht ruhiger. Nachdem er als Mitglied von Neil Youngs Crazy Horse sowohl das Barn-Album (und den für einen Grammy nominierten Film) als auch das World Record-Album (produziert von Neil Young und Rick Rubin) aufgenommen hat, gefolgt von dem kürzlich erschienenen Album All Roads Lead Home der Bandmitglieder Molina, Talbot, Lofgren und Young und nach dem Abschluss der Aufnahmen für sein neues Soloalbum Mountains, erhält Nils einen Anruf, dass Bruce Springsteen und die E Street Band auf eine ausgedehnte Welttournee gehen werden. Aber während die Solotournee also auf Eis gelegt wurde, müssen die Fans nicht auf Nils' neues Studioalbum Mountains warten. Auf Mountains bewegt sich Nils nahtlos zwischen bluesigen und geradlinigen Rockern und zarten Balladen, wie nur wenige es können, alles mit Nils' klanglicher Detailverliebtheit, unverwechselbarem Gesang und speziellen Gitarre veredelt . Mountains enthält Nils' beste Geschichten in ihrer besten Form, mit 9 brandneuen Eigenkompositionen und einer Coverversion von Bruce Springsteens Back In Your Arms. Zu den namhaften Gästen auf dem neuen Album gehören Neil Young, Ringo Starr, David Crosby, Cindy Mizelle, der Howard Gospel Choir und Ron Carter. Die Bandkollegen von Vorgänger Blue With Lou, Andy Newmark und Kevin McCormick, sind erneut dabei. Nils merkt an: "Da wir in den letzten Jahren der Pandemie mit neuen und ungewohnten Herausforderungen konfrontiert waren, habe ich Mountains geschrieben und aufgenommen, um diese Reise zu reflektieren. Ich kann mich nicht erinnern, dass ich mich bei einem neuen Album stärker gefühlt habe. Rau, zärtlich, ein inspiriertes Werk für mich, dankbar." Mountains wurde von Nils und seiner Frau Amy produziert. Er fügt hinzu: "Ich bin begeistert, diese neue, sehr persönliche und emotionale Musik zu teilen. Das atemberaubende Artwork stammt von Künstlers Ed Mell, LP im Gatefold mit bedruckter Inenhülle, CD als Digi-Sleeve mit Booklet.

For their Drag City debut, the enigmatic duo expand into eight-armed wonder; all the better to reach ever-deeper into their bag o' tricks. Slinky and sliding elegantly, the kids forge tunes with a harmony of ambiguity and nostalgia, effortless yet precise, and rounded with thick bottom - a dancing clash of cognition and dissonance!Since 2015, Kamikaze Palm Tree have been a relative mystery. Now, in times no less mysterious, Drag City welcomes them, celebrating the energy of their second LP, where KPT play their offbeat strain of 21st century rock.Making MINT CHIP, Dylan Hadley and Cole Berliner reach deeper into their bag of tricks than ever before, dialoguing with an absurd shared intent they haven't yet paused to question. The off-center pieces gathered together for Good Boy have given way to pulsing aquatic compositions on MINT CHIP. Cole's guitar tones, wire thin, bell-like, bluesily downtuned, slinky and sliding elegantly, arc purposeful around their peripherals. Dylan's kit work, effortless yet precise, grounded with heavy bottom, drives and interacts organically with all the emerging structure, nailing down finely detailed frames and canvases to backdrop her singing and the unremitting landing of melodies and songs. With the addition of Josh Puklavetz, things that didn't make sense before - like bass - are now on the beach, fully lotioned, essence to essence. Violin and clarinet (Laena Myers Ionita and Brad Caulkins, respectively) round out the tonal spectrum. All strung together in the foothills of Altadena's Wiggle World Studios with Hartling back in the engineer's seat and Tim Presley producing the proceedings!

With their duo debut, Dean Spunt and John Wiese invite you to experience the frenzy of percussive space and discreet sound found inside The Echoing Shell.This is the first official collaboration between the two veteran music-makers, though their connection goes back to 1999. As John recalls, "[Dean] was in a high school arts program at CalArts. A friend and I were recording the first Sissy Spacek demo in the design studios there, and taking a tape to my car over and over again to check the mix. Dean was walking through the parking lot with a Locust shirt on, we said hello, and he immediately got into a car with two strangers to 'listen to a tape'."The tape-listening ended well, apparently. Dean and John became friends and fellow travelers in L.A. circles and beyond: in 2005, John did a remix for Dean's first band, Wives; in 2007, Dean played percussion with Sissy Spacek's 13-Tet Los Angeles; John toured with No Age several times and collaborated live with them in 2010. Under the Sissy Spacek name as well as his own, John's recordings for his own Helicopter label and many others kicked things off for him around the end of the century; since then, he's been constantly engaged in solos and collaborations on record, performances, and installations around the world.In addition to Dean's ever-growing discography with No Age, he curates his own label, Post Present Medium. In 2018, Radical Documents released Dean's solo debut EE Head, which explored concrète and experimental techniques in a four-part, album length piece.The Echoing Shell is born of Dean and John's shared understanding, using John's process common to Sissy Spacek: elaborate sound-collage works using source material originating from punk, hardcore and improvised music. A series of impositions, tape manipulation and edits recompose the material, cracking open the crust of the source, freeing its implied guts to steam forth in gushes of extreme noise. On The Echoing Shell, this is as often noise as it is extreme intimacy, seeming at times t...

An electrical tension enters the room - a guitar, left to its own devices, is surfing the breeze. Breaking in the air, smiling from ear to ear. Bicoastal, even! Suddenly, The Peacers are back with their third album.The time has been kind. Three years since they went about their sophomore affect, Introducing the Crimsmen - but you know how it is in these important years, everything changing. Lots goes down, lots to go back through later. That second Peacers record was made by the second Peacers lineup, after 2/3rds of the first gang made for the door after the first LP. In came Bo Moore, Shayde Sartin and Mike Shoun - but after they'd finished making Crimsmen, singer Mike Donovan moved out of his old San Francisco digs to the east coast and made two solo albums. So, who êtes vous this time, The Peacers?Check the 'Better Than Ever' box, that's who! Up til now, The Peacers records were consistently great no matter who they were, delivering Mike D's irrepressible subterranean pop in a full color spectrum of moods from purple to blue-black to sometimes white. Blexxed Rec is a different time in the band's life - a second album from the same lineup, plus with a country in between them. Also, Bo, who had a song on the last one, brought three in for this one, and Shayde's got the closing number. Suddenly, three singer-songwriters under The Peacers' flag! So now they're the Beatles and Blexxed Rec is loaded like a Revolver? Uh, yeah. The band's vernacular is singing out of everyone's mouth, strumming on every guitar and every bass drum, rebuilding perfect pop in their own fiendish image, slanted and spread left and right in the speakers. Hard seps = classic!Everybody wants to be a guitar band, with two of 'em up front and a bass and drums, but The Peacers are already one, sending out a mad variety of the thrills and chills of modern rock - whether glam-tinged ("The Thunder Is an Electrical Love God"), psyched-out ("Colors for You", "Dandelion"), folky ("Irish Suit"), riding the knifeblade of post-garage fus...

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Mit ihrem bahnbrechenden Album 'Here in the Pitch' hat sich die in Los Angeles lebende Künstlerin Jessica Pratt als Songwriterin einer neuen Generation etabliert und ist die klare Nachfolgerin von Folk-Ikonen wie Nick Drake und Joni Mitchell sowie von genialen orchestralen Pop-Komponisten wie Brian Wilson und Burt Bacharach. Das unaufdringliche und doch ehrgeizige Album hat bei Kritikern und Fans gleichermaßen Anklang gefunden und brachte ihr bis heute über 15 Millionen Albumstreams ein, wichtige Beiträge in der New York Times und bei Zane Lowe, ausverkaufte Shows von Los Angeles bis London, Kollaborationen mit den Modemarken Chanel, Valentino und Chloé und einen Live-Auftritt in der Late Show mit Stephen Colbert, wo sie ihre herausragende Single „Life Is“ vorstellte. Pratts einzigartige Stimme und ihr Stil erregten auch die Aufmerksamkeit von A$AP Rocky, was zu ihrer brillanten gemeinsamen Single „HIGHJACK“ führte, die im Sommer 2024 veröffentlicht wurde.