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In 2008 appeared the first installment of the Australian Training The Middle East. This album released only in their country of origin is the album of the break as the group in its original configuration will end its short existence. The following year, under pressure from the fans, the band re-released this disc in an …

Aged just 18 at the outlet of his first album in 2008, the Englishwoman Laura Marling cover their tracks in spite of herself. A nice head of hair blonde dominated peroxidized, a British diction sometimes pronounced, songs that ranged from acoustic pop and folk song to the old, Laura Marling as much by his talent …

Thus, in 2009, two years after the first album of Angus and Julia Stone, the album Smoking Gun arrived in stores in Australia. Angus, orphan sister sailing in a musical universe radically different from that ascribed to him in the usual way. If we find out the bit of folk we know it, can think …

Sometimes I wonder if this is not in my head. This guitar distant sounding as if it came to me from another era. “When the wolves go blind” they sing a Latin tempo that reminds me of the Mexican border is not far … Bloody border, I crossed there forever it seems and while the …

At 18, Anja Plaschg has a large cutaway. Composer from his childhood in his native village of Gnas, Austria. His parents are farmers. His village, located in eastern Styria, not far from Hungary, has no more than 2,000 inhabitants. At 14, the Berlin label Shitkatapult (T. Raumschmiere, Warren Suicide particular) took her under his wing. …

When the difference makes the difference. The simple fact that 17 international musicians work remotely is already amazing! But what about the music? New, different, “marginal”,  surprising? But then, here even if the information are not easy-we are dealing with a Greek composer coordinator, Stelios Romaliadis. He federated around the project sixteen other musicians, including the …

This young singer from Calgary (Canada) will not stay long self-produced. The first album released thisSeptember 6th is really too strong and powerful. The great voice of this young lady does not mean the resultsin musical mawkishness. She does not hesitate to tamper with records and bluesy ’big mouth’ and the guitars have little remorse to saturate on compositions of great beauty. We are far from sentimentality so often alleged to singeuses-songwriter, even if the true sensitivity is not necessarily absent. Samantha often compared to a female Devendra Banhardt equally mystical … To follow, no doubt, the packaging having matched only by the content! Picture from http://lindseybakerphoto.com/

It’s been a week since I listen to this album, and I am told that I would not have to chronicle. Too much, too much difficulty to step back to analyze … it will build a labyrinth excellently, which is already contributing to the preservation of capital sympathy that I maintain for the duo. Subjectivity, …

A few piano notes, a melody, a voice soft and sensual … Note you may fall in love with Agnes Obel. Agnes obelalbum ObelAttention talent! The surf from the north come here and may well just get on its way. Yet it is only sweetness, subtlety and tenderness. Our hearts can only listen to capsize …

Humble but not shy, but with simple ease, Angus Stone and her sister Julia returned beautify the spring with their second album ‘The Way Down’, a basket pop-folk multi-season neat and captivating. The art and by extension the music has never been an exact science. Each group or artist has his influences, desires and priorities. …