Karen Malka Releases her Debut Album – October 2010
Karen releases her debut album on 4th October. Having spent many years working in the music industry this is the obvious next step for the female vocalist and composer.
The album, titled ‘Lady of the forest’ is a beautiful mix of her own compositions, influenced by her past and present, a track composed by Avishai Cohen who also performs on the album, and a traditional Hebrew poem.
With every new album, Nucleus Torn open new vistas of sound in the realm of avant-garde rock music. Fredy Schnyder, multi-instrumentalist and founder of this ambitious project from Switzerland, plays up to twenty electric and acoustic instruments and ventures radical musical innovations. Following “Nihil” (2006) and “Knell” (2008), “Andromeda Awaiting” provides the disillusioned, yet conciliatory completion of a conceptional trilogy.
As on the two precursors, Nucleus Torn are creating a new sonic realm on “Andromeda Awaiting.” This acoustic and ethereal production blends elements of Progressive Rock with influences from Early Music (Middle Ages, Renaissance) and Impressionism as well as Folk and Jazz. Unique musical and compositional abilities are reflected in a pioneering synthesis of various stylistic elements often deemed incompatible. With “Andromeda Awaiting,” Nucleus Torn release the most daring and ambitious album of their career to date – they have reinvented themselves and their music for the third time in a row.
The VILLAGE VOICE calls Keating “…A cross between Willie Nelson and John Prine and you don’t get any better than that.” Passionate songs — tough and tender. No frills or posturing — her sultry voice cut straight to the heart. PERFORMING SONGWRITER raves…”…A rocker in the best possible sense of the word…enough twang to be called country, lyrics that tell a folksinger’s story, but throw in her road-wizened voice and wailing electric guitar and what you’ve got s rock. As in rock solid.”
Gabrielle Fraser (born December 15, 1983 in Wellington, New Zealand) is an award-winning New Zealand singer-songwriter. She is also one of the main worship leaders of popular Christian praise and worship band Hillsong United. Almost everyone in New Zealand knows Brooke Fraser as a 19 year-old singer-songwriter from Wellington whose debut album What To Do With Daylight catapulted her into the charts with four number one radio hits and sales exceeding seven times platinum.
After two critically acclaimed albums released under the stage-name Lole, the Swiss artist was able to take her particular brand of folk music beyond the borders of her own country (France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Scandinavia) as a headliner or as an opening act for renowned artists such as Joe Cocker, Paul Simon, Alain Bashung, Donovan, Marianne Faithfull, Nouvelle Vague…)
Olivia Pedroli is now back with “The Den” an intriguing new record at the crossroads between classical, folk and experimental, entirely produced in Reykjavik, by Valgeir Sigurðsson, the Icelandic producer well-known for his collaborations with Björk, Camille, CocoRosie, Bonnie Prince Billy, etc.
“Y La Bamba makes fractured folk that sounds as if it comes from dog-eared diaries. The author is statuesque Luz Elena, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, whose vintage vocals seem to come from the 78-rpm era.” – Buzzbands LA
“…mixes Devendra Banhart-influenced art-folk with hazy femme vocals and traditional Mexican sounds to weirdly entrancing effect.” – LA Weekly
Sea Oleena is the sudden rush of inspiration. The long anticipated conclusion. The layer of dust on the bookshelf. The missed flight. The memorized view from a window. The space between.
Sea Oleena is the voice of someone you used to know, in the body of someone you’ve yet to meet, following you through a dream.
Needing no introduction, Anika Moa returns to our sound waves plucking the heart strings of love and loss on her 4th album Love In Motion, due for release on April 5.
After 12 years in the music business, numerous Apra Silver Scroll nominations, a debut double platinum album with Thinking Room, platinum status with her third album In Swings The Tide, Moa could be termed a minor veteran. But that would suggest she has lost the confessional nature that has become her signature in the world of pop music. She may be turning 30 this year, and life evolving to incorporate new ambitions – but as always – Anika Moa lays bare her soul & casts a tender and cheeky grin across every song and crowd.
It seems an almost perversely guilty pleasure to fall for a roots/country singer in the midst of the multicultural bustle of Toronto. But Lynn Miles’ eighth studio album, brimming with 10 of her own creations, is seductive for the very reason that this genre of music exists in the first place: sheer emotional honesty, unbridled by pretension or irony. It doesn’t matter if we love opera or hip hop; all we want is to move forward in our lives, come what may.
But, as Miles sings in on the title track, “Something Beautiful,” “there is no clean getaway.” The songs’ style ranges from old-country waltz to light rock (on the title track) and outright pop. Each match of poetry and melody has its own insinuating wiles. A lot of credit goes to Miles’ rich voice and deft hands on acoustic guitar and piano. She gets help from producer Ian Lefeuvre, who picks up a number of instruments, double-bass player Maury Lafoy and violinist Drew Jurecka.
Top track: “Time to Let the Sun,” as it unleashes a dramatic resolve to “put your dress on/ It’s time to swing and sway/ It’s time to let the sun have its day.” Miles performs live at the Glenn Gould Studio on Nov. 10.
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Anne Marie Almedal, the folk-pop femme fatale and soundtrack maestro with a voice so beautiful that time stands still…
After years of wonder, fronting the art-pop band Velvet Belly, Anne Marie returns centre stage with a hotly-tipped new album ”Blue Sky Blue” and stunning concert film ”Live At Aladdin”.
Following up from her soon-to-be-classic album ”The Siren and The Sage” in 2007, her massive hit theme-song to Norway’s most watched TV drama ever ”Himmelblå”… Anne Marie has once again teamed up with producer and film-composer Nicholas Sillitoe, recording a wonderful new collection of songs in both London and Kristiansand.
”Blue Sky Blue” also features the one and only Danny Thompson, the legendary British bassist who has played with the all-time who’s who of folk-pop…Nick Drake, John Martyn, Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Everything But The Girl…
Timeless songs, timeless music, and a voice to haunt you…
Pearls Before Swine 