Summer Girl
HAIM
«HAIM is an American pop rock band from Los Angeles. The band consists of three sisters: Este Haim (bass guitar and vocals), Danielle Haim (vocals and guitar) and Alana Haim (guitars, keyboards, and vocals). In addition to their primary instruments, each member is also proficient in several others. The group’s pop sound on their studio work stands in contrast to the more rock-based music of their live shows. The sisters grew up in a musical family, and began playing instruments from an early age in the cover band Rockinhaim, fronted by their parents, Moti and Donna. Haim has been compared to Fleetwood Mac though the group says they are ‚squeamish’ about this comparison and insist they are influenced by more recent music.» (Wikipedia)
Polydor, July 2019
Urkututu & Amor bo
Metsä
Used in Ayahuasca ceremonies by Shipibo and other shamans, traditional, magical healing songs from the Amazon called icaros cast their hypnotic spell through repetition and childlike singing patterns. These often ancient folk chanting songs deal with specific topics, designed to reconcile us with our world, and to retrieve parts of our soul that may have been lost in life events like accidents, falling in or out of love, birth, illness and social conflict. Credited to plant spirits, they can be sung using a high and a throat voice at the same time and bring negative energies to the surface, and working differently on each participant of a medicine circle. Metsa or Metsa Nihue is internationally renowned in hre field of Amazonian plant medicine. He calls himself a vegatlista due to his direct relationship with South American plants. Many call him shaman but it is a term he does not promote
Metsa Music, September 2019
Your Capricious Soul
Michael Stipe
After performing instrumentally, Michael Stipe, former frontman of R.E.M., has released a new song for the first time in eight years, hopefully the frontrunner of an album yet to come. „Available as a download on MichaelStipe.com, with proceeds going to the climate activism group Extinction Rebellion, the song signals this longtime environmental advocate’s support for a new generation’s protests. Co-written with Athens, Georgia-based producer Andy Lemaster, “Your Capricious Soul” is sonically dazzling if not necessarily groundbreaking, with droning low-end, jangling tambourine, crisp electronic beats, thrumming guitar, even a jubilant horn fanfare. Stipe’s tender vocals are in fine form, burnished with subtle vocoder-like effects, and he’s as oblique as ever.” (Pitchfork)
michaelstipe.com, October 2019
Two Hands
Big Thief
This indie band from New York is based in Brooklyn, New York and made up of Adrianne Lenker (guitar, vocals), Buck Meek (guitar, backing vocals), Max Oleartchik (bass) and James Krivchenia (drums). If songwriting were a form of therapy, Adrianne Lenker would have a lot to do. Before shaping the music of Big Thief with her personal songs and fragile voice, she experienced a childhood that canot be called anything but «difficult». She grew up in a sect, lived in isolation, wrote her first song at age eight, and moved fourteen times within th space of a few years. Her parents separate when she is twelve, and she moves in with her father who tries to turn her into a TV pop star, something she does not want to be at all. She leaves home when she is sixteen and hooks up with Buck Meek. The rest is – music – history. Two Hands is Big thief’s fourth album, It is bound to meet the same kind of success of the first three to attain cult status within days of its release. (sgs)
4AD, October 1019
Trilogy 2
Chick Corea
Legendary pianist/composer Chick Corea likens the experience of playing with fellow jazz greats, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade, to “taking a stroll down the street and having a casual conversation.” Such is the level of familiarity shared between the three, who made their debut as a trio on the acclaimed 2014 record Trilogy, which immediately established them as one of the best groups of Corea’s unparalleled career. Now, they return for a second full-length outing titled Trilogy 2, which collects a number of energetic live performances culled from their recent world tour. The program features renditions of jazz standards, modern classics and favorites from Corea’s remarkable catalog.
Universal Music, October 2019