Browse by tag folk

Wes Tirey – Home Recordings

2014 # american primitive, lofi, folk, instrumental

Wes Tirey was recently touring Italy and in the meantime the tape label Orange Milk Records released a cassette with Tirey's homerecordings. Orange Milk Records usually releases experimental synthy bleep drone cosmo electronica and with Tirey the …

J.T. Jamieson – home recordings live & demo

2013 # american primitive, folk, solo guitar

American Primitivism and no end. Is it a trend right now? I don't think so. Solo guitar music was always around, just the media attention wasn't as big as it seems to be now. Which is fine if it helps artist to make a living from it or just i …

Lukas Read – Long Live Sam!

2014 # american primitive, country, folk

This is fantastic! I featured Austin, TX based Lukas Read last year, with his great Ramble Man, Ramble album. A fresh cosmic-country-music one-man show... He just released a mini ep, recorded on a mono tape recorder with plain guitar songs and his cr …

Zachary Cale – Folkadelphia Session 10/4/2013

# singer-songwriter, folk

In addition to my last post on christmas last year, about several Zachary Cale sessions, here is another superb one. He and his band entered the XPN Singer-Songwriter Radio Studio in Philadelphia, to record a Folkadelphia Session and add to the g …

Luke Hirst
Breaking The Hex

2014 # american primitive, solo guitar, folk

With Farewell Adventures, Yorkshire based guitarist and if I remember right, music teacher, Luke Hirst introduced himself to a wider audience. It was a nice collection of well know solo guitar standards in best Takoma School fashion. With Breakin …

Holiday Rambler – There is No End to the World, and Nothing Can Shatter the Earth

2013 # folk, dark folk, americana, blues

If you are alone at Christmas, join the lone stroll of the Holiday Rambler. D. Alex Meeks aka Holiday Rambler from Toronto presents a very bleak and minimal take on americana. It's a lazy fingerstyle played guitar and the guy's voice. That …

C.Strøm – A Christmas Carol

2013 # folk, americana, outsider music, bedroom

Outsider Christmas Carols from Norway. Christian Strøm lives on the island of Ellingsøy and right now it seems pretty mild there. Instead North America is freezing. Lately, Strøm put a shitload of his tunes on bandcamp an …

Zachary Cale – The Lagniappe Sessions + more

2013 # singer-songwriter, folk, indie rock

Zachary Cale put his hands on Brian Eno, JJ Cale, The Stooges and Peter Laughtner in a recent session for Aquarium Drunkard. Cale got featured here at DFBM a lot and with Blue Rider the big players finally catched up. So this gives him hopefully more …

Moses Nesh
Don't Speak To Me / Bird Nest Bound

2013 # old time folk, americana, folk, blues

... or a chain of coincidents. In August this year I stumbled upon a bandcamp recording by Moses Nesh who sounded really really old-timey for his young age. We exchanged a few mails where he explained a bit, why he is in old time american blues a …