Lily Seabird
Trash Mountain
Since 2023, Vermont songwriter Lil Seabird’s life has been in perpetual motion, spending nearly half of that time on the road performing her own music and as a tournig bassist with Greg Freeman, Lutalo, and Liz Cooper. While she thrives in transit, back home she in anchored by “Trsah Mountain,” a ink house surrounded by other artists and creators situated on a decommissioned landfill site as the back of Burlington’s Old North End. Here, Seabird has found belonging, friendship, and inspiration.
Macro Sound
Jethro Tull
Aqualung
One of the iconic band of the seventies, Jehtro Tull is back on the road, Ian Anderson showing that the flute is as suited to Rock ‘n Roll as any instrument. “Frontman Ian Anderson has wielded the instrument – a favorite among middle-school-band girls and wandering minstrels for almost a thousand years – like a madman onstage, aggressively blowing solos usually reserved for guitars or saxophones. But paired with the band’s era-spanning brand of prog-folk music – expertly displayed on 1971’s breakthrough ‘Aqualung’ album – the flute has become a weapon of mass destruction in Anderson’s hands.” More here.
Chrysalis Island
Country Orchestra Christina Brunner
Fahre (Travelling)
Kristina Brunner (1993) studied cello with a focus on folk music and Schwyzerörgeli (swiss arcordeon) with Markus Flückiger at the Lucerne School of Music. Since 2019, she has been teaching Schwyzerörgeli at music schools in the Gürbetal region and the city of Lucerne. She also performs regularly in concerts, primarily in duos with Evelyn Brunner and Albin Brun. Kristina Brunner’s roots lie in traditional Swiss folk music. After eight unique works by male composers, Kristina Brunner is the first woman to be commissioned to write a piece for the traditional “Stuberte am See” (Lake Session). The same piece newly available here.
Global Sounds
Shouse
Collective Ecstacy
Shouse is Ed Service and Jack Madin from deep in the colony of Melbourne/Naarm Australia. They are two best friends who like to hang out tinkering on drum machines and synths making weirdo-house. From time to time they get the local choir together to make a global anthem. Sometimes they lead choirs of thousands in a cathedral into ‘communitas’, rituals of transcendence. Shouse is all about collective effervescence, communal ecstasy, singing, dancing, musiking, together as one. Check out the far out visuals on their website here.
Smooch
Wet Leg
CPR
“Since Wet Leg emerged three years ago, its trajectory into indie-rock stardom has been a series of alm,ost absurd feats. Pals from the Isle of Wight, England — a far reach from a musical hot spot — the group saw its self-titled debut LP explode, a chart-topper in the United Kingdom that also earned two Grammys. “Chaise Longe” perhaps history’s catchiest track about a grandfather’s upholstered chair, had vocal fans in Elton John, Lorde and Dave Grohl; seemingly overnight. Wet Leg ascended from dingy clubs to stadiums, opening for Foo Fighters and Harry Styles.” (The New York Times)
Domino