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A selection of the best tracks from May 2017. Chosen by the Danish music blog Musik Mig Blidt
www.musikmigblidt.dk

Artwork: Laurent Hrybyk -  http://laurenthrybyk.com/

Guldkorn maj 2017

With You

Rainbrother is Bjarke Bendtsen’s (ex-The Migrant) new project with a group of musicians from the Copenhagen indie scene. The group released their first track earlier this summer, ‘East African Dream’, a tribal inspired track with chanting choir, a steady beat and slide guitar references to Pink Floyd.

The song is mixed by Noah Georgeson (Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, The Strokes) who has agreed to become midwife for Rainbrother’s first full length album.

Bendtsen ended The Migrant earlier this year in Austin, Texas at Austin’s Psych Fest, Levitation. Since the first Migrant album came out in 2010 he has been backed by musicans from Austin on his American tours and by fellow Danes when touring Europe.

The birth of Rainbrother marks an end of this era, settling down in Copenhagen and a move from indie folk to electric rock territory.

The electricity is present on the first Rainbrother live video for the song “Break Out”. The group will be releasing this song as a single later this autumn prior to the album release which will be out in February next year.

You can watch the live version of “Break Out” here: ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZwiyslCj6Q ​ and listen to “East African Dream” on ​https://soundcloud.com/rainbrother

Visit:
www.rainbrother.com 
www.facebook.com/rainbrothersongs
www.twitter.com/RainbrotherBand 
www.instagram.com/RainbrotherBand 
www.rainbrother.bandcamp.com 
www.soundcloud.com/rainbrother

FatCat Records Demo

Rainbrother - Riverside

1st single off the Rainbrother debut album 'Tales From the Drought'
Vinyl & downloads available at Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2t6Hhuu
Spotify: http://sptfy.com/1TDD
iTunes: https://apple.co/2F0DLmV

Tales From the Drought

Break Out

Rennen

Hard Liquor

I See You

Say Something Loving

"What's That Perfume That You Wear?" off Jens Lekman's 'Life Will See You Now,' out February 17, 2017 on Secretly Canadian

Pre-Order 'Life Will See You Now': https://jenslekman.lnk.to/lifewillseeyounow

Life Will See You Now

WHAT'S THAT PERFUME THAT YOU WEAR

Jens Lekman - What's That Perfume That You Wear?

Taken from the debut album 'Lines' released 27 Jan 2017 (http://phonofile.link/charliecunningham). 
Tickets on sale now from https://charliecunninghamlive.com

7 Feb - Edinburgh, Sneaky Pete’s
8 Feb - Aviemore, Old Bridge Inn 
9 Feb - Ullapool, The Arch Inn
10 Feb - Stornoway, The Woodlands Centre
11 Feb - Inverness, Tooth & Claw
12 Feb - Elgin, The Drouthy Cobbler
13 Feb - Aberdeen, Aberdeen Tunnels 
15 Feb - Besancon, Festival Generiq - Eglise St.Louis
16 Feb - Dijon, Festival Generiq - ENSA (National Art School)
17 Feb - Mulhouse, Festival Generiq - TBA
18 Feb - Belfort, Festival Generiq - Le Planetarium
23 Feb - London, Union Chapel 

14 Mar - Austin, SXSW
22 Mar - Paris, Trois Baudets,
24 Mar - Neustadt am Rübenberge, Schloss Landestrost
25 Mar - Konzerthaus Dortmund
26 Mar - Hamburg, Kampnagel
27 Mar - Berlin, Kammermusiksaal Philharmonie
29 Mar - Münster, Jugendkirche Effata!
30 Mar - Cologne, Kulturkirche 

1 Apr - Frankfurt, Heiliggeistkirche
2 Apr - Mannheim, Atlantis
3 Apr - Munich, Carl-Orff-Saal
5 Apr - Vienna, Chelsea
6 Apr - Salzburg, Rockhouse Bar
8 Apr - Zurich, Papiersaal
9 Apr - Stuttgart, Theatrehaus
11 Apr - Brussels, Botanique Witlof Bar
12 Apr - Amsterdam, Paradiso

25 Apr - Madrid, Costello Club
26 Apr - Barcelona, Festival Mil·lenni

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/78CiW0UJbHspFaVuVexOK6
iTunes/Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/album/-/id1164800045
CD & Vinyl: https://charlie-cunningham.backstreetmerch.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/charliecunninghammusic
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/cunninghamcharlie
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cunninghamcharlie/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Charlie_C_Music

Lines

Minimum

one from the vaults...

Catching Flies Sample Pack for Producers: https://sellfy.com/p/9cLa/

www.catchingflies.com 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/catchingfliesmusic 
Instagram: www.instagram.com/catchingfliesmusic 
Twitter: www.twitter.com/catchingfliesuk 
Catching Flies on Spotify: smarturl.it/cfspotify 
Catching Flies Bandcamp: www.catchingflies.bandcamp.com

Free Download

Daymarks

She is Lost (Album Version)

Written, composed and performed by:
Mikkel Borbjerg Jakobsen, Morten Hansen, Henrik Fischlein

Produced & mixed by The Foreign Resort

Engineered by The Foreign Resort & Bo Karlsson

Recorded at White Dwarf Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark

Mastered by Chris Cline

She is Lost - Single

She Is Lost (Album Version)

Siv Jakobsen - Like I Used To
Single out 31 March 2017. 

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/3RC0PQuDJC5mfaZSxCiJEL
iTunes:  https://itunes.apple.com/no/album/like-i-used-to-single/id1214623540?l=nb
From the upcoming debut album, out later this year. 

Label: The Nordic Mellow
Release-date: March 31st 2017.
ISRC: NOTXB170106

Management/contact: Glenn Larsen - glenn@indianer.nu

Written by Siv Jakobsen
Produced by Matt Ingram at Urchin Studios in Hackney, London, UK
Mixed and engineered by Dan Cox
Mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy Mastering in London, UK

Arranged by Siv Jakobsen and Matt Ingram
Voice and guitars: Siv Jakobsen
Drums, percussion, keys and backing vocals: Matt Ingram
Upright bass, Electric bass and Guitaron: Nick Pini
Guest-vocal on "Like I Used To" : Andrew Davie

c & p 2017 The Nordic Mellow / Siv Jakobsen

Photo by Jørgen Nordby (jorgenordby.com)

www.sivmusic.com

Like I Used To

Lasse Matthiessen 
Music & Lyrics by Lasse Matthiessen

Lasse Matthiessen, vocals, guitar
Johanna Weckesser, guitar
Niels Wilhelm-Knudsen, bass
Martin Krümmling, drums
Anders Hjort Straarup, keyboards
Recorded by Zpektakel & Lasse Matthiessen
Mixed by Joe Joaquin

Lasse Matthiessen reinvents himself - from a singer-songwriter who could have happily followed in Nick Drake's footsteps, the Dane transforms into an organic electro-indie-pop act who, with his remarkable deep, knowing vocal, conjures up hyperrealistic moments of the human experience.

Lasse has demonstrated his great songwriting talent with his previous releases - while he wrote contemplative indie folk to perfection on his first albums and concentrated on reduced arrangements, he retired for the EP "When We Collided" from 2017 back to darker pop realms.

The single of the same name “When We Collided” from 2017 developed into a sophisticated underground hit: the song was streamed more than 900,000 times, was featured in the New Music Friday Germany & Switzerland playlists, and its electro-folky DNA was considered Lasse Matthiessens from then on signature sound.

In 2021 he took a first step towards transforming to the more electronic, darker side. With the EP "Coordinates Remain" Lasse Matthiessen discovered a new keyboard of the sound landscape for himself: powerful, filtering basses create an atmosphere as if you were dancing empty and still high from the emotions of the night in front of a Berlin club on the steps, while the sun rises. The move from acoustic guitar to sophisticated synthpop began.

With his upcoming new album ’Dreams’, slated for a winter 2022 release, he deliberately crosses the border to electronica with complete assurance. He composes shimmering indie pop with organic synths, electronic beats and velvety basses that lives and dances in the nocturnal streets of Europe.

Lasse Matthiessen is Danish, lives in Berlin and has toured almost everywhere in Europe. He has performed at various festivals and played as support for Clueso, Anna Calvi, Glen Hansard and Suzanne Vega.