is simply perfect and beautiful. I always loved Songs of Green Pheasant

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The Danish-born Berlin-based singer-songwriter Agnes Obel landed a pan-European hit with her disarmingly beautiful debut album ‘Philharmonics’. After seven weeks at #1 in Denmark and hitting the Top 10 in both France and the Netherlands, the deluxe double CD version of the album will be released in the UK on May 2nd on Play It Again Sam.

Entirely self-produced and performed, ‘Philharmonics’ opens with the instrumental piano piece ‘Falling, Catching’ which sets the tone for Obel’s classically inspired songwriting. The next track, ‘Riverside’, flows with a depth of emotion embedded with further character by Obel’s love of combining her sweet melodies with carefully considered lyrics that evoke the song’s innate sound. ‘Just So’ works a similar trick, its blend of melancholy and optimism perfectly encapsulated into the opening line ‘Black turns beat me bright.’ Elsewhere, with ‘On Powdered Ground’, ‘Brother Sparrow’ or her interpretation of John Cale’s ‘Close Watch’, she melds different moods and atmospheres, all indelibly linked by the brittle majesty of her music.

The deluxe edition of the album adds a second CD featuring six tracks recorded at Obel’s recent acclaimed residency of sold-out shows in Copenhagen and five instrumental piano performances.

As a child, Obel was subconsciously guided into music by the influence of her mother and father, who would play and listen to a blend of the classical greats, folk music like Jan Johansson and the timeless sounds of Roy Orbison. After discovering the likes of Portishead and Elliott Smith as a teenager, she began writing her own piano-based songs, but it wasn’t until she moved to Berlin in 2006 that she began recording an album.

Many of the songs on ‘Philharmonics’ have subconsciously found an audience through their use in film and television. ‘Just So’ soundtracked a Deutsch Telekom advert, which gave Obel the unusual combination of having a song that everyone knew while having almost no profile as an artist herself. But soon opportunities presented themselves and continue to do so. One of Obel’s earliest breaks came when three of her demos featured in cult director Thomas Vinterberg’s film Submarino – ‘Riverside’ earned her a Robert Award (Denmark’s equivalent of the Oscars) for Best Song of the Year. Her music also reached a bigger North American and international audience when ‘Riverside’ was used in Grey’s Anatomy.

iTunes extended Obel’s profile further by requesting an exclusive release of ‘Philharmonics’ and highlighting Obel on the home page of their North American website. The attention of the press has been consistently positive with Vogue and culture magazine Telerama producing in-depth features in France, while Obel will also feature in both the North American and European issues of TIME.

Official website – www.agnesobel.com
Official facebook – www.facebook.com/agnesobelofficial
Official twitter - www.twitter.com/agnesobel
Official youtube - http://www.youtube.com/agnesobel


Agnes Obel - Riverside (Lulu Rouge Remix)

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Off of Cavegreen's new album, Vita Lucida.  To buy the CD or digital download, visit www.cavegreen.us .

Pacific Clouds

Restoration Of The Blue Whale Skeleton(featuring Christopher Votek and Yvette Holzworth)

Bird Song (featuring Christopher Votek and Yvette Holzworth)

minor planet

Midori Hirano - Haiyuki

Generationals' cover of "In Green" (Volcano, I'm Still Excited!!) is taken from the Polyvinyl Plays Polyvinyl covers compilation, out 11/25/2016. Featuring Sarah Quintana on vocals.

Order 2xLP/Digital: http://plyvnyl.co/pv20store

Generationals featuring Sarah Quintana  - In Green (Volcano, I'm Still Excited!!)-

Rahm - Wet Words
Flexible Records 2016

Bandcamp: https://flexiblerecords.bandcamp.com/track/wet-words
Apple Music: https://itun.es/us/XRr5fb?i=1172642557
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4ix1ZOX54oYaOQePt5BkAc

Rahm - Wet Words

walk around rice fields in Yachimata, Japan

YACHIMATA

YACHIMATA_161117

Sam Amidon - How Come That Blood

collaboration w https://soundcloud.com/carlsonsonson

Don't Wanna Hide ╰( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )つ──☆*:・ﾟsleep ∞ over & carlson

Songs of Green Pheasant - Deaf Sarah

Taken from the new album "Where It Hits You" - out now on Loose.

JIM WHITE - Chase The Dark Away

Buy it now: http://smarturl.it/AnAwesomeWave

An Awesome Wave

Dissolve Me

For his blogs 4th birthday Mr @Peenko asked 4 bands/artists to record a new song, which had to be strictly no more than 2 minutes long. Then he had a proper artist provide some beautiful artwork. He put them together as an extremely limited set of flexi postcards which are now available here:

http://peenkopostcards.limitedrun.com/products/505288-flexi-postcards

They look beautiful huh?

They all sound great too as they were all mastered by Jonathan Huxtable of Small Fish Recordings. 
http://www.smallfishrecordings.co.uk/

Buy a Flexi

All My Days Are Shorter

Dogman - known as 'the English Neil Young' was raised by the wolves of Winter Hill. downloadable from from CDBaby, I-Tunes or Amazon or buy the DIGIPAK - He Chose The Road - The Cat that solved The String Theory and The Whisperer.
David Sands is a singer-songwriter who enjoys playing intimate gigs MY BLOG http://dogman-dogman-david-sands.blogspot.com

'THE CAT THAT SOLVED THE STRING THEORY.  'THE WHISPERER', 2010 (CD BABY, I-Tunes and Amazon) includes early studio tracks. ~~~~~~~~~
"The 'English Neil Young' comparable with artists like early Townes Van Zandt, David Gates, Ryan Adams, Sufjan Stevens, Roy Harper and Mark Knopfler  - Home Fire and Love Thing played on BBC6 Music and included in Podcasts.

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MIKANS (Matt Baker) collaborates brilliantly on many tunes and on early songs 'Like an Inca in the sun' (Tribute to Neil Young) a sound epic. We are known as THE CROSSBREED. https://soundcloud.com/the-crossbreed
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Soundcloud Artist of the Day March 2011 
Was signed to Expat Records the Internet 'firework sensation' now a damp squid.

Songs of Green Pheasant - Deaf Sarah

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