Scandinavian mistress of avant-piano, Flavia Faas has a background in circus performing, which serves her alternative music quite well. Here on the odd and wonderful Your Daughter, hear the carnival flair, the raucous, flamboyant exuberance of Flavia Faas in all of her quirky charm! Your Daughter is from the upcoming long-player, Love, Death & Vegetables, due out in just a few days (September 22, 2013). Check out Flavia Faas web site. It is nicely formatted and complete, and has a great little bio on…
Read MoreA beautiful, natural voice is one of the staples of singer / songwriter Myla Smith, seen here on This Time I Mean It from her October 2012 EP, Drugs. Myla has been making great music since at least 2006 and is about to release (as of this writing) a new long-player, Hiding Places, due out this month. (Due to forward posting, it is probably already released, check the link below for status.) You can find a host of information on Myla…
Read MoreUpdate: The video for this track no longer exists. There is no suitable replacement. (a poor quality live version exists) Safe To Say is from Russel Howard’s double EP City Heart +, which is six songs covered both in electric and acoustic settings and was released July 2013. Russel has a commanding high tenor vocal that projects the lyric with decisiveness, making sure your ears get every word and every nuance. Even though iTunes has apparently not figured this out yet, Russel Howard the comedian and Russel Howard the musician are mutually exclusive. Which is why a browse to the i-tunes purchase…
Read MoreA year ago I would have been hard-pressed to foresee that The Civil Wars (Joy Williams and John Paul White) would be on the precipice of a breakup as a group but after a stormy tour that ended early, the writing may be on the wall. This ahead of the recently released self-titled second long player (August 2013). It’s hard to imagine that the duo responsible for setting the folk-pop world on it’s ear and creating a space…
Read MoreCould it be a modern day Roches on your speakers? Well, not exactly, but The Beautiful Word do have the quirky folk-pop that the Roches mastered so long ago, re-created in their own image. Also, unlike the Roches, The Beautiful Word is a male/female band. What a lot of fun it is, too! Here on the February 2013 single, May Not Be Love, you get the idea of what The Beautiful Word are all about. Fun quirky, sometimes minor-key, gems…
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