A recent post on For Folk’s Sake had me jumping down a rabbit hole searching for more from this amazing artist, Paul Mosley, seen and heard here with The Red Meat Orchestra and a track (Galaxies) from the folk opera concept album, The Butcher (May 2016). Folkwit Records will soon be releasing the band’s latest EP, Wintertide, due out sometime in December. The Red Meat Orchestra spares no instrument, no matter how wildly unorthodox, to texturize Mr. Mosley’s compositions. While there is nothing that explicitly states it…
Read MoreAn amalgam of many styles, from the wonderful-if, unfortunately named, All Our Exes Live In Texas, is a good way to describe this Australian four-piece. If Vodka were to place their sound (or attempt to), we would put them in their own Avant-folk-pop realm. Delicious four-part harmonies combine with extremely interesting song-writing to transport the listener to new vistas. Here on When The Sun Comes Up, from the group’s debut long-player, When We Fall (March 2017), you get a taste. Let me explain…
Read MoreFrom time to time, Vodka takes a look back at an artist that graced our reviews some time ago to see how the group or artists is faring today. Sometimes we are disappointed to find they no longer exist, and sometimes, like this time, we find that the group/artist is still out there making great music. Enter Mipso, which first appeared on Vodka back in August of 2013 with Carolina Calling. Mipso is a folk-bluegrass group from Chapel Hills, North Carolina. They have been making music for a…
Read MoreIf Lights Out doesn’t blow you away musically, lyrically it will have you on the edge of tears. Lindsay White is a folk musician whose vocal and instrumental beauty flows freely, but the stories-Oh the stories! In Lights Out, the title track to her 2017 long-player, Lindsay sings of a person who fought her way through life and fought her way out. It’s a story of life and loss and everything in the middle. It’s about putting up walls that you can’t see beyond. It’s about walls as…
Read MoreItalian pop songstress Luana Maso uses a pop medium to tell folk stories. Take Legends (seen/heard here), for instance, from Luana’s debut long-player, Down The Rabbit Hole (April 2017). Legends tell the all too familiar story of growing up and how while we are young, we are in awe and wonder at the things around us. Unencumbered by adult reality borders, children see the vast world as a place where there are limitless possibilities. As adults, with work and life commitments, we tend to lose that sense of…
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