Tag: songwriting
Arooj Aftab: Night Reign
In the wake of two independent ambient experimental electronic projects (Bird under Water in 2015 and Siren Islands in 2018), Pakistani American singer-songwriter and composer Arooj Aftab emerged on the international stage in 2021 with the incredible Vulture Prince. The ambitious project embracing Hindustani classical…
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek: Dost 1 & 2
Over the last decade or so, Anatolian psychedelic rock has been enjoying a phenomenal revival both in Turkey with artists like Gaye Su Akyol and further afield. Spurred by members of the Turkish diaspora, London-based fusion duo Kit Sebastian, Satellites from Israel or the formidable…
Cinder Well: Cadence
Born in California and now sharing her time between her native homeland and County Clare in Ireland, Amelia Baker is a singer songwriter who started her career as a member of Santa Cruz-based folk-punk band Blackbird Raum. She launched her solo career in 2015 as…
ØXN: CYRM
Comprised of Radie Peat on vocals, keyboards and guitar, Katie Kim on vocals and piano, John “Spud” Murphy on vocals and bass and Eleanor Myler on vocals and drums, ØXN is the first new act in eighteen years to record for historical Irish traditional music…
Shana Cleveland: Manzanita
A Michigan native now based in rural Northern California, Shana Cleveland is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and visual artist. A founding member and lead vocalist of all-woman surf rock band La Luz with whom she has released five albums to date for the Seattle-based Hardly Art…
Moor Mother: Jazz Codes
From Philadelphia, Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother is one of the most fascinating multi-disciplinary artists to emerge on the contemporary music scene in the last ten years. A poet, songwriter and vocalist, Moor Mother is also a visual artist working through the medium of video…
Rogê: Curyman
Already a veteran of the Música Popular Brasileira scene with nine albums released to date since his début in 1998 – either as a solo act, with a band or in collaboration with Arlindo Cruz or Seu Jorge – singer songwriter Roger José Cury aka…
Lisa O’Neill: All of This is Chance
There is the source from which all cultures rise,And all religions,There is the pool in which the poet dipsAnd the musician.Without the peasant base civilisation must die,Unless the clay is in the mouth the singer’s singing is useless.Patrick Kavanagh – The Great Hunger (1942) section XIII A…