The Dime Store Companion for February is up on Mixcloud, Soundcloud, and Spotify overflowing with folk, country, blues and soul!  
Curated by @pauldufrene 
Linx in bio & story 

Tommy Jarrell - Let Me Fall 
Jackson C. Frank - Blues Run the Game 
The Doc Watson Family - Your Long Journey 
Willis Alan Ramsey - Goodbye Old Missoula 
Furry Lewis - Shake 'Em On Down 
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Trouble In Mind 
Townes Van Zandt - When Your Dream Lovers Die 
Mississippi John Hurt - Here I Am, Oh Lord, Send Me 
Mimi And Richard Farina - Pack Up Your Sorrows 
Norman Blake - Church St. Blues 
Amede Ardoin - Si Dur D'etre Seul 
Lightnin' Hopkins - Back To New Orleans 
Ry Cooder - Tattler 
Jerry Jeff Walker - I Love You 
Lily May Ledford - Wild Bill Jones 
Charley Pride - I Know One 
Wilson Pickett - For Better or Worse 
Clarence "Frogman" Henry - Troubles, Troubles 
Jerry Reed - Amos Moses 
Dewey Balfa - La jolie blonde 
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Marie Knight, Sam Price Trio - Up Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air 
Son House - John the Revelator 
Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Banks of the Ohio 
Solomon Burke - Can't Nobody Love You 
Charlie Poole - If the River Was Whiskey 
Aretha Franklin - Dark End of the Street 
Rufus Thomas - Walking the Dog 
Lefty Frizzell - Mom and Dad's Waltz 
Anita Carter - Bury Me Beneath The Willow

Dime Store Companion #3 :: March '24

Disquiet

Harmonic Dream Sequence

Harmonic Dream Sequence (Single Edit)

Sweep

Song Of The Damascene - Featuring Pet Twin (Single version)

The Weight Of Goodbye

Der Freischütz

Pure ethereal ambient soundscapes. Chillout, relax and enjoy!

SFA- PURE - SUMMER RAIN

From TRACED, Sonic Pieces, Pattern Series, 2017

Boundless Informant

From the upcoming album "A Visible Length of Light" out on 4/16/21. Available at https://leabertucci.bandcamp.com/

An Arc of the Horizon

A self-taught pianist from the age of 7, Dustin O’Halloran’s personal histories give us some clue to the thickly-woven tapestries of his music: he has lived in LA (where he studied art at Santa Monica College and formed the much-adored Devics with Sara Lov), Italy (in the depths of rural Emilia Romagna) and Berlin. His arresting, heartbreaking music is as much an elegant exercise in nuance and grace as it is a pure, intuitive, personal expression – and here is where we see some explanation into Dustin’s quiet rise to notoriety and his continued ascension.



Having gained serious recognition with his stunning score to Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film Marie Antoinette (which sits neatly alongside his soundtrack work for William Olsen’s An American Affair (2010) and Drake Doremus’ Sundance-winning Like Crazy (2011),



Dustin has quickly become one of the most recogniseable names in the broad-reaching “post-classical” field, a definition of the genre rather than vice-versa. Now sitting alongside peers and friends Max Richter, Hauschka and Johann Johannsson (who, incidentally, aided Dustin in mixing his newest album) on FatCat’s dedicated orchestral imprint 130701, new album Lumiere is a glowing addition to O’Halloran’s musical canon, at once an amalgamation of everything that his music has been leading up to, and an unprecedented step forwards in terms of timbral palette and harmony. Featuring NYC’s ACME Quartet, Stars Of The Lid’s Adam Wiltzie and prodigious young composer Peter Broderick among the guest musicians, the scale of Lumiere is expansive: “it made me realize how important it is to find players that truly understand what you do and to create a language with them,” writes Dustin.



Dustin’s rock background - primarily with Bella Union’s “dream-pop” outfit Devics – has yielded an unassuming, perceptive approach to composing modern classical pieces. Inspired by, among others, Arvo Part,  Philip Glass, Hans Otte, John Luther Adams, Olivier Messiaen, Ennio Morricone, Gavin Bryars, there is no lack of articulation or academic musicality in Dustin’s work, but there is also none of the aloofness or detachment that is so readily perceived around contemporary classical music. This can perhaps be attributed to the environments in which Dustin has worked - Lumiere is full of those rare elements of life shared by both vibrant cities and lush countrysides: colour, both organic and rich, sensorial intrigue and a deep awareness of space. Or perhaps it is a product of Dustin’s synaesthesia, a condition he first noticed around the time of his performance at New York’s Guggenheim Museum for their Kandisnky retrospective and 50th anniversary gala. Able to visualize his compositions as vividly as a painter might see his own work, Dustin’s expressiveness is beyond compare.



Lumiere will be Dustin’s third solo full-length, following Bella Union albums released in 2004 and 2006 respectively (Piano Solos vol. 1 and Piano Solos vol. 2). These two records were originally opportunity for Dustin to express a non-Devics creative streak: gently and privately pieced together piano suites written and recorded on a beautifully-restored 1920’s Sabel piano in his Italian farmhouse. The compositions, however, gradually grew into fully-formed solo pieces as Dustin’s ambitions and designs developed. The path, of course, would eventually lead him to Lumiere’s majestic, swooning ensemble arrangements and a focus-shift away from the piano as his work’s primary timbre without losing any of the affection for the instrument that bore his first two records.



A sublime solo live album - entitled Vorleben – will be released by FatCat / 130701 in June.

Harmonic Dream Sequence (Single Edit)

Dustinohalloran

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