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Praised by Pitchfork as “one of the most exciting fgures in solo
guitar music“ masterful 12-string guitarist and vocalist Sarah Louise
integrates elements of drone, spiritual jazz, and minimalism into her
compositions. Her Thrill Jockey debut Deeper Woods is her frst
album to prominently feature her voice. Louise enriches her warm
singular vocal sound with a lush variety of instruments as well as
layers of harmonies that together create a tapestry of texture. Deeper
Woods features performances by Louise’s House and Land bandmate
and Steve Gunn collaborator Sally Anne Morgan, as well as drummer
Thom Nguyen, and Jason Meagher (Black Dirt Studios), who also
mixed the album.
Steeped in Appalachian folk traditions, Louise’s in?uences are much
broader with shades of psychedelia and experimentalism, pushing
her beyond genre constraints. Incorporating both traditional and
modern methods of composition, Deeper Woods is a re?ection on
the struggle between peaceful isolation and the need for community.
By reframing traditional music styles and lyricism with a feminist
stance, the album blends the spiritual with the cerebral.
Louise has toured extensively over the past year both solo and with
House and Land. 2018 will see an appearance at Pickathon Festival
as well as continued touring.
“Sarah Louise’s music is spiritually and tangibly set apart from her
peers’, her 12-string compositions culled from birdsong and rivers as
well as the sacred drone of Appalachian folk music.”
– NPR Music, Songs We Love
TRACK LISTING:
1. Bowman’s Root
2. When Winter Turns
3. The Field That Touches My House and Yours
4. Pipevine Swallowtails
5. Up On the Ridge
6. On Nights When I Can’t Sleep
7. Firepink and Milkweed
SALES POINTS
“Louise has become one of the most exciting fgures
in solo guitar music, with a style of fngerpicking
that aligns her more with banjo players and pianists,
notes cascading in constant patterns like rain.”
– Pitchfork
Louise’s previous albums have been praised by
NPR Music, Pitchfork, and Aquarium Drunkard
Louise is also a member of House and Land with
Sally Morgan (Black Twig Pickers). Their debut
album was released last year to critical acclaim from
NPR Music, Uncut, Pitchfork, Magnet, and more
LP version pressed on virgin vinyl and packaged
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color vinyl. CD in 4 panel mini-LP style gatefold
package.
Louise toured extensively with House and Land in
both the US and Europe last year. Louise plans to
tour both solo and with House and Land throughout
2018 including an appearance at Pickathon Festival
“River streams and falling leaves ?oat around the
12 strings of Sarah Louise’s acoustic guitar, at once
one with nature and trying to make sense of its
mystery.” – NPR Music
“Sarah Louise is exploding our ideas of what folk
and acoustic music can be and do.” – Bandcamp Erhältlich ab 11.05.2018
Cherry Red setzt das Re-Issue-Programm für den Katalog einer der besten Indie-Bands fort, die die Musikgeschichte der 80er Jahre mitgeprägt hat. Felt stammten aus Birmingham und veröffentlichten in dieser Dekade 10 Studioalben und 10 Singles auf den Labels Cherry Red und Creation, welche 2018 endlich wieder erhältlich sein werden.
Die CD-Editionen erscheinen jeweils in einer 7″-Box mit dem Original-Artwork im Gatefold-Sleeve, einer seit Ewigkeiten gestrichenen Non-Album-7″, Gig-Postern und 4 Badges. Die limitierte Erstpressung ist von Lawrence persönlich handsigniert. Die Vinyl-Ausgaben wurden allesamt von Lawrence remastered und sind nun im Gatefold Sleeve erhältlich.
“Ignite The Seven Cannons” ist das vierte Studio-Album und erschien ursprünglich 1985. Der Klassiker wurde damals von Robin Guthrie von den Cocteau Twins produziert, und Elizabeth Frazer ist auf der Indie-Hitsingle “Primitive Painter” zu hören! Da Lawrence allerdings nie ganz zufrieden mit dem Soundergebnis war, wurde das Album für diese finale Wiederveröffentlichung von John A. Rivers neu abgemischt. Erhältlich ab 02.03.2018
Getaggt mit: Neue Produkte Das Debütalbum des Schotten Lomond Campbell, Ende 2016 in einer kleinen Auflage über sein eigenes kleines Label veröffentlicht, erscheint nun über Heavenly in einer Re-Mastered-Version. Ein Album, das zwischen Melancholie und Euphorie pendelt und vom grauen Rauschen der Stadt und der Stille der Natur erzählt. Mit einem zehnköpfigen Streicherensemble (unter der Leitung von Cellist Pete Harvey) erschuf der Singer/Songwriter ein gefühlvolles Werk.
– Formate: CD / LP inkl. DL Erhältlich ab 24.11.2017
Getaggt mit: Neue ProdukteMit ihrem brandneuen Studioalbum “Red Hands Black Deeds”, produziert von Keith Armstrong, beweisen Shaman’s Harvest, dass sie zu Recht als die Zukunft des Southern Rock gefeiert werden. Shaman’s Harvest, bestehend aus Sänger Nathan Hunt, Bassist Matt Fisher, Rhythmusgitarrist Josh Hamler, Leadgitarrist Derrick Shipp und Schlagzeuger Adam Zemanek, begannen mit dem Schreiben im Kompletter Artikel →
A sense of place has been essential to the music of Brokeback since guitarist/bassist
Douglas McCombs frst launched the project in 1995. Initially conceived as a solo
outlet, the Chicago group has taken on new dimensions over the past two decades,
morphing from the lean, pastoral ambience of the frst album, Field Recordings
from the Cook County Water Table, to the more muscular, taut arrangements
and dynamic swells of the last release, Brokeback and the Black Rock, for which
McCombs assembled a new quartet lineup. Each album develops with exacting
detail, revealing McCombs’s gift for dialing in the essence of a mood, feeling, or
distant locale with a handful of reverb-laden guitar tones, elegant and sustained,
strategically placed and sparingly deployed. The instrumental landscapes he creates
on Illinois River Valley Blues are utterly transportive, evoking familiar open-frontier
soundtracks and charting out new sonic territory.
McCombs’s singular approach to guitar and bass, characteristic of his work with
Tortoise, is expertly enhanced here by James Elkington (Tweedy, Steve Gunn) on
second guitar (moving over from drums on the last record). The two salute one of
McCombs’s favorite bands, Television, with latticed dual leads on the stately yet
aggressive “On the Move and Vanishing,” while Elkington’s subtle layers of pedal
steel and organ burnish more ruminative forays like “Andalusia, IL” and “Ursula.”
Their intertwining ?ights are anchored by the sturdy yet versatile rhythm team of
bassist Pete Croke (Exit Verse, Tight Phantomz) and drummer Areif Sless-Kitain
(the Eternals), the newest member of Brokeback.
Thematically this is McCombs’s most personal offering yet, re?ecting on his early
years growing up along the Illinois River corridor between Peoria and Chicago.
Though the inspiration is McCombs’s, the execution is wholly a group effort. With
the same instrumentation and mostly the same lineup as the previous album, the
band stretches its leader’s eternal fascination with the roots of American guitar
music in bold new directions. A serpentine mystique runs through “Rise, Fernanda,
Rise!,” and “Cairo Levee” conjures a desert atmosphere closer to the Sahara than
the American southwest. Side one of the album closes with a moody, meditative
take on “Spanish Venus,” a ballad written by cornetist and sometime Brokeback
collaborator Rob Mazurek (Chicago Underground, Exploding Star Orchestra). “I
could hear Brokeback doing the tune from the moment I heard him workshopping
it with Pulsar Quartet at a little cocktail bar in Logan Square,” says McCombs.
Several songs feature lush, multi-layered vocals by Amalea Tshilds (the Paulina
Hollers), who made a deep impression on McCombs with a spellbinding a cappella
performance a couple years ago. “I often imagine female vocals on Brokeback
records, but I wanted it to be someone that I have personal history with, someone
who can nail it, not to mention someone who I know digs the music,” he says.
“That’s why Mary Hansen (Stereolab) sang on all those earlier records and why I
wanted Lea for this.”
Illinois River Valley Blues is a winding, wistful travelogue that not only captures
darker textures but mines their depths. That’s been part of McCombs’s vision for
Brokeback from the start: “To me a song is not worth writing if it doesn’t have a
strong sense of melancholy,” he says
TRACK LISTING:
1. Ride Ahead and Light
the Way For Me
2. Cairo Levee
3. The Canyons of Illinois
4. Andalusia, IL
5. Spanish Venus
6. On the Move and Vanishing
7. Rise, Fernanda, Rise!
8. Ursula
9. The Strollers’ Memorial
10. Night Falls on Chillicothe
SALES POINTS
Brokeback is the longstanding project of Douglas McCombs.
McCombs is a member of Tortoise, Eleventh Dream Day, The
Sea and Cake, and Pullman, and has worked with Tom Ze,
Azita Youseff, Will Oldham, Calexico and Yo La Tengo
The current Brokeback quartet lineup features McCombs
joined by James Elkington (Tweedy, Steve Gunn), Pete
Croke (Exit Verse, Tight Phantomz), and Areif Sless-Kitain
(The Eternals)
Illinois River Valley Blues was produced by John McEntire
(Stereolab, Yo La Tengo)
Album photography by Sam Prekop (The Sea and Cake)
Brokeback will tour extensively throughout the year
The album features guest vocals from Amalea Tshilds (the
Paulina Hollers) and a cover of a Rob Mazurek written ballad
(Chicago Underground, Exploding Star Orchestra)
“for anyone who appreciates an outstanding rhythm section
pushing interesting song structures, topped with emotionrich storytelling that’s done through a guitar”
– Premier Guitar
“… at its center it’s all ragged glory, guys banging out riffs
and solos, a clear-cut delve into the rock frmament. You can
practically feel the band members blowing the dust off their
old plaid shirts and cracking open a six pack” – Pitchfork Erhältlich ab 24.02.2017
Silverhead war eine britische Glam-Rock-Band, die Anfang der 1970er Jahre aktiv war. Die Bandbesetzung bestand aus Michael Des Barres (Gesang), Robbie Blunt (Gitarre), Rod Rook Davies (Gitarre), Nigel Harrison (Bass) und Pete Thompson (Drums). Auf Cherry Red Records erscheint jetzt eine exklusive Kompletter Artikel →
Lucifer’s Friend sind eine progressive Hardrock-Band aus Deutschland, die auch Elemente des Jazz und der Popmusik in ihre Musik integriert. Sie entstand 1970 zum Teil aus den Überresten der Star Club-Band German Bonds. Passend zur letztjährigen Reunion der Formation erscheint jetzt mit “Live @ Sweden Rock 2015” ein Live-Album der Band auf Cherry Red Records. Die erstklassige Setlist Kompletter Artikel →