songwriter

Rachael Dadd’s Table is the second video today that first went to our video tumblr, but then got on the main site, because it’s a masterpiece and we’d be terribly sorry if it was lost in the avalanche that is the net.

Canadian songwriter Barzin crafts melancholic folk songs for the suicide lane. Today though I received an email from Bad Panda announcing that they have gotten a previously unreleased Barzin song and released it with CC license, now I’m sitting in my depression cardigan, drinking red wine and contemplating why it has come to this…

Squeezed out of our inbox in the last couple of weeks, this two part edition for Nov 09 has some great tunes. The first part is consisted mainly of indie / indiepop / folk stuff, which makes up about 80% of our inbox. Brown Bird’s new release on Peapod Records. Sticklips’ debut. LA Singer songwriter Yael Mayer and Tristeza.

The Essential albums of 2009 are starting to appear, and one of the first (together with the Mulatu & Heliocentrics) that get the undomondo seal is American singer-songwriter Bill Callahan’s sophomore on Drag City. And it’s coming from a blog that is highly skeptical of the thriving indie/hipster scene which produces hundreds of unoriginal bands everyday both in the US and the UK.

In hindsight, the first thing that attracted me to this fine gentleman was his pseudonym. A frenchman singing acoustic folk songs in English, trying to represents among what, like ten thousand folk bands from the US? Yet somehow after a few months of coming back to this album, it’s July and I should say this album has solidified its place in my heart now.

15 Battles – Mirrored (Warp Records) : Everybody’s been talking about “Mirrored” this year, and they kind of deserve it for getting their oddtimed dissonant music to find strange acclaim from mainstream circles as well as mathheads.
14 Deejay OM – Reheated Naan and Curry (Galapagos4) : A fine hybrid of Indian samples mixed with beats. Somehow liked it much more than Madlib’s take. Past

Been listening to Mill Pond’s Luke Temple with his second full length called “Snowbeast” for some time and Brooklyn based guitar/banjoist & songwriter straight away charmed me with his frail falsetto voice and exceptionally versatile songwriting I should say. Temple’s indie pop/folk has many elements of psychedelia and prog which moves “Snowbeast” apart from all the American guitar folk artists.

After a two year silence Australian singer-songwriter Xavier Rudd has issued a new album called “White Moth” on Salt-X Records, his 4th. 1978 born multi-instrumentalist is known for his easy going beach/surf sound that’d be very suitable for the hipster and eco-concious multiculturalists from say Canada & Australia and Roots folk festivals.