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Starflower – The Sea Is The Harbour

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Back in december my focus was on just getting through the tough Christmas schedule at work and therefore several criminal things took place. One of them is the fact that I failed to mention the release of this beautiful Finnish album. The new Starflower album The Sea Is The Harbour came out on Karkia Mistika Records on december 5th, 2012. You’ll find their brand new video The Turning below and you can stream the whole thing on their bandcamp.

Starflower – The Turning from Starflowerband on Vimeo.

Starflower at Facebook
Starflower at Bandcamp

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Leif Vollebekk – North Americana

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Montreal-based singer-songwriter Leif Vollebekk has a new album coming out on Outside Music in february. The lead-off single Off The Main Drag surfaced a few weeks back and it sounds really good to me. North Americana might turn out to be a special album. Release date is set for february 19th, so I’ll have to settle for this great single for the time being.

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Leif Vollebekk Website

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Thomas Hine – Forgive My Future

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Time to start writing the blog again, because a lot of great albums have already been released this year. Thomas Hine’s new album Forgive My Future definitely seem to be one of the great ones. I don’t know much about this Colorado-based songwriter. In fact, a week ago I didn’t even know who he was. But then I heard the song Bright Shining Mountains and instantly loved it. It reminded me of Iain Matthews early 70s solo albums (+ Matthews Southern Comfort stuff) and I’m totally into that kind of easy-flowing beautiful folk/folk rock. Further investigation has proved that the album Forgive My Future is full of magnificent folk songs. You’ll find two excellent sample songs (Bright Shining Mountains and Owen) below. I might need to start hunting for a physical copy.

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Thomas Hine at Facebook

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