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Really enjoying this new album by Tunng! Folktronica at its best! Some great immersive qualities to the recording mix too!
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Great band! I went to one of their gigs in Rotterdam, about 20 years ago.
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This looks good; I’ve added it to Roon’s Listen Later.
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I love the Etudes in particular; thanks for the reference, @thumb5!
No-one quite knew what to expect when Mary Chapin sought a collaboration with two of the most adventurous and versatile artists in Scottish music, Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart – least of all the trio themselves. Conceived in the remote west of Scotland and recorded in Spring 2024 at the renowned Real World Studios with D. James Goodwin and Katie May at the controls, “Looking For The Thread” is a rich, resonant and unique record, one which supports and illuminates the core characteristics of each artist while bringing a powerful collective identity to the fore.
The 10-track album is produced by Bonny Light Horseman’s Josh Kaufman (Bob Weir, The National, The Hold Steady) and features a world-class musical ensemble: Rob Burger (piano, organ, accordion, keys), Chris Vatalaro (drums, percussion), Cameron Ralston (bass) and Kaufman himself (guitar, keys). The stunning contributions of Caoimhin O’Raghallaig, whose globally recognised innovations on the hardanger d’amore, a ten-string fiddle, can be heard in The Gloaming, in productions at the Abbey Theatre and in the film Brooklyn, encapsulate the collective spirit of adventure and creativity which defined the sessions… [YouTube]
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They describe their music as folk and the album indeed has a solid traditional folk feel in the vocals and wonderful three-part harmonies, in the tempo of some of the tracks and in their descriptions of a connection to the natural world. However, there is a swing in some of the songs, and lap steel and slide guitar are added to give a country feel at times. You can see why they also describe themselves as “Maritime Appalachian Folk” .
~Andrew Raw [Americana UK]
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In late 2022, Asheville, NC songwriter and performer Anya Hinkle met famed Irish producer Kevin Moloney (U2, Sineád O’Connor). The result of their collaboration is OCEANIA, a collection of songs that uses the vast and deep Pacific Ocean as a metaphor for our collective journey through the human experience. Oceania, the great Pacific, is wide and deep, the perfect metaphor for a life’s passage, with the probability of finding shore as remote as tiny islands in a vast ocean. The courage it takes to voyage through its waters is measured by the uncertainty inherent in the journey. [YouTube]
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