Name: Margot - Walk With Me by fulltimehobby
Duration: 3 min 49 s
Description: Walk With Me will be released on 7" on 19th Feb 21. Pre-order here: https://smarturl.it/margot-wwm-fibd

Crystal Ball

Feel Nothing

Written by Nation of Language
Produced and Mixed by Abe Seiferth
Mastered by Heba Kadry

This Fractured Mind

Here's a tune by Zach Miller (Dr. Dog, Philadelphia).  This is from my record Love & Harm.  I wrote the bridge part.  
The band is Aaron Otheim, Andrew Dorsett, Jon Hyde on keys, drums and pedal steel guitar respectively.   My brother Peter Ormsby Blau plays trombone on the bridge and my daughter, Poppy Jean Blau sings back up bumbums.  This song was mixed by Chet Delcampo at Hong Kong Stingray, Philadelphia.

Natural Limit

Stream 'I See You' Everywhere: https://orcd.co/echoframe-iseeyou

The Vancouver-based musician Echo Frame takes inspiration from all corners of the music world. His craft lies in blending indie, soul, surf-rock, disco and more to create a blissful musical experience. His new single ‘I See You’, will accompany you all summer long. Let yourself be guided by this seducing ballad, its groovy guitar lines and dreamy vocals are here to take you to a place of wonders.

I See You

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Limited 12": smarturl.it/MariaUsbeckVinyl
Spotify: smarturl.it/MariaUsbeckSpotify
Apple: smarturl.it/AmparoApple
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Maria Usbeck's solo debut, Amparo, is a collection of songs written and recorded across the span of three years in Ecuador, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Barcelona, Lisbon, Easter Island, Costa Rica, Florida, L.A. and her home in Brooklyn. Though the songs were composed electronically, Amparo called for an acoustic treatment, so Usbeck spent a winter in the studio recording the arrangements live with producer Caroline Polachek and mixer & engineer Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson. Fleshed out in full sonic color on the marimba, xylophone, quena flute, piano, and harp, the album stretched into something hi-fi and expressive, meditative but not meandering.

Amparo stems from Usbeck's desire to compose in Spanish, her native language. Growing up in Quito, Usbeck was immersed in salsa, merengue, bachata, and Andean music, but was more attracted to German and American culture than to her own, and moved to America by herself at 17. After five years of fronting new wave outfit Selebrities and writing songs in English, Usbeck experienced a delayed-onset homesickness and knew it was time to "let the mother tongue speak." The impulse manifested itself directly: Amparo takes its title from Usbeck's middle name and her mother's name, and translates roughly as "to guide, protect, and embrace." Usbeck wields her Spanish lyrics cleverly while folding in snippets of several other far-flung tongues: Rapa Nui from Easter Island, Quichua from Ecuador, Bribri from Costa Rica, and Catalan. Because these lyrics were composed while visiting the countries from which they originate, their usage is more impressionistic than literal, like a mockingbird imitating fragments of other bird calls. Similarly, Usbeck reinterprets the Ecuadorian music that she grew up with as a newcomer, returning home with fresh ears, and as such the sounds are very much her own.

The backbone of Amparo is percussion, vibrating throughout with timbales, tumbas, a talking drum, bongos, shakers, and an Indian flat drum, with the gaps filled in by her field recordings of birds, beaches, and jungles. The songs were written and recorded chronologically, with the exception of the closing track, a cover of Colourbox’s “Tarantula” reimagined in Usbeck’s Spanish translation. Amparo is a reflection of the textures of Usbeck's childhood. It is also a distinctly grown-up pop record – a travel diary, music made by a visiting outsider to tap into a shared core of human expression. Emotively, Usbeck is her most powerful on piano ballads "Uno De Tus Ojos" and "Jungla Inquieta," but is a magnetic narrator throughout, moving between whispers, chants, and lullabies. Amparo pulses with many stories in many voices, but they flow together seamlessly like water, leaving behind a wordless hum.

Amparo is released May 27 via Cascine in North America, Labrador in Euope and Rallye in Japan.
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Maria Usbeck - Ciudad Desnuda

L.A. (Remix feat. Westerman)

Waiting On Design

Walk With Me will be released on 7" on 19th Feb 21. Pre-order here: https://smarturl.it/margot-wwm-fibd

Margot - Walk With Me

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Please send any demo submissions to info@fulltimehobby.co.uk

Full Time Hobby is a small independent label based in London.

Margot - Walk With Me

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