International music, News

Denver – Denver

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This blog is not really up-to-date at the moment, but let’s write one news bit straight away. The excellent Mama Bird Recording Co. (also responsible for releasing Barna Howard’s debut album which is one of my top 10 albums of the year so far) released Denver’s self-titled album today 14th of august. I’ve been looking forward to the album since Mama Bird released the excellent first outtake Way It Is a month or two ago. I’m just listening to the album for the first time on Spotify and it really does sound like magnificent country album and I think this beauty will be ready to enter the album of the month/year contest once I’ve spent some quality time with it. I think I have to get my hands on that vinyl at some point, even though settling for the digital version would be a cheaper option. Denver comes from Portland, Oregon and shares some members with the wonderful Blitzen Trapper. It might be a lot said, but I think I even prefer Denver. Not that it’s a competition. Here are the first two outtakes The Way It Is and Reno from the new album.

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Denver Website
Denver at Facebook
Mama Bird Website
Mama Bird at Facebook

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Video of the Day #107: Johan Örjansson

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Tonight I’ve been mostly listening to Swedish singer-songwriter Johan Örjansson. I stumbled upon his single If I Were To Love You on No Deal Music’s spotify list and instantly liked it. Johan Örjansson’s songs remind me a lot of Ryan Adams, but that’s hardly a bad thing. I love Ryan and it seems like I could end up developing same kind of affection towards Johan. His new album Melancholic Melodies For Broken Times came out on june 7th and this is the aforementioned single If I Were To Love You.

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Johan Örjansson Website
Johan Örjansson at Facebook

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Woody Pines, Zachary Lucky and Carly Maicher

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Woody Pines – You Gotta Roll

North Carolinian Woody Pines released a new ep You Gotta Roll a while back and I really like their vintage country sounds. Old-fashioned American music delivered with heart and soul. Red Rockin’ Chair is an outtake from the excellent new EP, but I also had to re-post the earlier video of the day 99 Years Blues (not on the new EP), because it’s just so damn good.

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Woody Pines Website

Zachary Lucky – Saskatchewan

Canadian folk troubadour Zachary Lucky released his new album/mini-album Saskatchewan back in march and I just realized that I haven’t posted about this beauty more than an odd twitter comment or two even though I’ve been enjoying it ever since. Saskatchewan is a little folk treasure and makes Saskatoon feel like home even if you can’t find it from the map. Here are couple of magical examples. Across The Ocean and Leaves Are Falling. The latter one features another wonderful folk artist Carly Maicher on backing vocals.

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Zachary Lucky at Bandcamp
Zachary Lucky Website

Carly Maicher – Hiding

Well this one is actually from last year, but I couldn’t leave the opportunity to post a Carly Maicher song to pass me by. I think I first found her music late last year, when she toured with Ryan Boldt (The Deep Dark Woods). At the time I was curious about anything even remotely The Deep Dark Woods related and instantly noticed that Carly Maicher’s music was also something pretty amazing. Since then, I keep on coming back to her bandcamp every now and then. This is a beautiful song entitled Tundra.

Carly Maicher at bandcamp

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Seamus Cater & Viljam Nybacka – The Anecdotes

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Seamus Cater & Viljam Nybacka are Amsterdam-based experimental folk duo. Seamus Cater is british and Viljam Nybacka is from Vaasa, Finland, but has lived in Amsterdam for the past twelve years or so. Together they’ve created a captivating folk album The Anecdotes. At times the album goes out of my comfort zone, but in the end it’s rather refreshing to listen to something more challenging than those three minute pop songs and sad whiskey-soaked country tunes for a change. And obviously there’s the beautifully phrased vocals and the traditional folk elements that will keep simple pop fan on board even if the minimalistic experimentation occasionally becomes too challenging. Just listen to the magic of Folk Music to judge yourself and stream/buy the album on their bandcamp.

Seamus & Viljam at Bandcamp
Seamus & Viljam at Facebook

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