THIS WEEK: ERGO SCHMIDT Ergo Schmidt is a musician based in the West Country. One song is all it takes sometimes. Ergo's 'Touche' was that song. Submitted to our dropbox,selected for our Listening Post and voted by the lovely FOTN readers into the Fresh Faves - all within the space of a few days. It was like a young unheard-of whippersnapper appearing out of nowhere…
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THIS WEEK:CLARA HILL Clara Hill is a music artist based in Berlin. For the life of me I can't remember where I first heard Clara's music but I do know it was a good day or at least it was a bad day that instantly got better. That the song was called 'Dawn of a new day' seemed very apt. With an acoustic heart built…
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THIS WEEK: RAEL JONES Rael Jones is a Composer and Multi-Instrumentalist, based in London. He recently came to our attention when his wonderful piece 'Silflay' popped into our dropbox and you dear public voted it into that weeks Fresh Faves. Rael is certainly different from the usual type of artist featured on Prick and Ding with his classical leanings but I found Silflay so refreshing,relaxing & such…
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THIS WEEK:MERZ Merz is British song musician Conrad Lambert who is currently based in Bern, Switzerland and - in my humble opinion - one of this country's finest musical talents. With four spellbinding albums to his name - in 'Merz', 'Loveheart', 'Moi Et Mon Camion' and 'No Compass Will Find Home' - Merz is an artist who should be celebrated as an aural sculptor of…
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Allyson Ezell is a new music artist originally from Iowa & now based in Paris. I really like her voice, her melody, her rhythm and rhyme (brought to the fore by British producer Matthew Ker, aka MaJiKer). Allyson only came to our attention a couple of weeks ago when you voted her song 'Pick it up' into our Fresh Faves. FOTN's Sam Bonham wrote "This…
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THIS WEEK: WASUREMONO Wasuremono is a band based around multi-instrumentalist William Southward who resides in Bradford-on-Avon. I always feel an affinity to a man who records in his shed or attic like William, plus most importantly in inviting Wasuremono to do an interview it was the music which jumped up and gripped me. The music washes over me like a warm shower, in a beautiful field,…
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THIS WEEK:VIDEOTAPES Videotapes are a three-piece Folk-Americana band from Colchester, Essex. I have caught them live a number of times which is where they have shown most promise - with their charming delivery of great harmony, rhythm and rhyme. Alongside - the last time I saw them - madcap questions for the audience between songs that seemed to revolve around Pokemon characters. The three members compliment…
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THIS WEEK:BRYNOVSKY Brynovsky is the coming together of frontman Leroy Jones, early member of roots reggae band The Congos, Edinburgh singer, Idana and songwriter/producer, Tim Brynovsky. Spread across the UK in Scotland and London, Brynovsky have a classic sound with Leroy's soft cutting vibrato melting into Idana's round tones. This is melodic reggae fusion with soul, dub, funk and rock stirred in. (more…)
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THIS WEEK:THE PICKLED ONIONS The Pickled Onions are from Dublin & they number just one man-Paddy McGovern.Paddy plays everything himself & what a gorgeous sound he makes,right up my boulevard. My ears pricked up as soon as they dropped into the FOTN dropbox in the last few weeks. (more…)
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THIS WEEK: LITTLE LAPIN Little Lapin is an artist originally from Plymouth & now based in New Zealand. We bumped into her lovely 'Waiting Room' on a recent Fresh Faves & I was instantly taken by this stadium-filling indie song with its gorgeous vocals,buzzing strings and larger-than-life melodic disposition. The echoes of The Pretenders were just too much for a boy to handle when it…
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