week.05
Allan Thomas "Deep Water" (Black Bamboo)
"Anyone who miss that late 70's L.A. westcoast sound, just listen to 'Deep Water' and grab it at once....."
- Gabor Kleinbloesem / Strutterzine -
"Almost three years in the making, but here it is, the fifth studio album by Allan Thomas and he still keeps his promise that he will release at least one album every 10 years of original material. As always, very well worth waiting for!"
- Gerrit Vermeij / Muziekvenster -
"Brought to you in a laid back style, crossing borders between americana and jazz, 'Deep Water' gives us some really nice songs like the title track, 'The Longest Ride' (featuring Crosby & Nash) and 'Homegrown'."
- Mr Blue Boogie / BillyBop -
“With an interesting mix of folk and jazz music, singer-songwriter Allan Thomas is offering a pleasant time to anyone listening to his 5th album ‘Deep Water’. Five records is not that much in a musical career which is lasting more than 40 years, but when the qualitative level is as high as on this record, we don’t mind to wait a bit longer to welcome his next release!”
- Valére Samperman / Rootstime -
week.04
Janni Littlepage "Strange Angels" (Little Pages Music)
"What a pleasant surprise, the excellent folk pop from this elegant piano player and singer-songwriter from California deserves your full attention...."
- Cis Van Looy / Keys & Chords -
“Janni Littlepage convinces as singer and as songwriter through the songs on her latest album ‘Strange Angels’, which can also be seen as an ultimate tribute to last year deceased singer-songwriter Kenny Edwards, who played bass and was singing harmony vocals on each track of this well arranged and nicely balanced record.”
- Valére Samperman / Rootstime -
"To form lyrics and music as a wonderful unit as this, makes this album a precious little jewel!"
- Wolgang Giese / RockTimes -
"'Strange Angels' is a finely balanced album from an artist well worth to discover. Highly recommended!"
- Ingo Andruschkewitsch / Musik An Sich -
"With a taste of spring and early summer, the music of Janni Littlepage comes sweeping over you like a warm breeze in May. Definitely needed in these dark and cold days in Sweden. The production of 'Strange Angels' feels like velvet to your skin, or why not whale song to your ears. Janni takes the listener on a journey through folk, americana, country, as well as piano driven pop, on her new album. She's got a beautiful voice and I really like this!"
- Kaj Roth / Melodic Net -
week.03
Steven Casper & Cowboy Angst "Kindness" (Silent City Records)
“When we get such qualitative work after waiting for more than 3 years to hear the latest full CD, we don’t mind sitting in the waiting room for another few years. Meanwhile, we do now, of course, have this beautiful record ‘Kindness’. The broad variety in styles and rhythms, as well as the excellent songs, provide us sufficient moments of joy to play this album again and again, to help us through such long waiting period.”
- Valére Samperman / Rootstime -
"Steven Casper is a citizen of the world. He was born in New York, but grew up in Japan, Italy, Nigeria and Mexico, and finally Santa Monica, on the California coast. In 2006 he released an album titled 'Cowboy Angst' which he later called his accompanying band. The music is a blend of roots, blues, folk and country. The latest album from this band is called 'Kindness', and here the collaboration with producer Ira Ingber continues. We also find a number of guest musicians on this album: The Brotherhood Horns, Carl Byron on keyboards and accordion, pedal steel on John McClung and Matt Cartsonis on mandola and autoharp. Highly recommended!"
- Gerrit Vermeij / Muziekvenster -
"With a backing band who look like they’ve not only been round several blocks, but slept on most of them, Casper’s a LA based singer and songwriter who grew up in Japan, Italy, Nigeria and Mexico, listening to his parents records of Hank Williams, Leadbelly, Bob Wills, and Woody Guthrie. He sings with that Southern twang, the band rock out with ringing guitars and keyboards that mixes a roots rock sound ('Solid Gone') with Texicali flavours ('Maria'), some r&b colours ('Down Home Girl') and bar room rock n roll ('Be My Baby Tonight'). There’s nothing to make them stand out of the crowd, but, headed up by the shuffling Southern country rocker 'Broken Hearts & Cadillacs' (which sounds exactly like you’d imagine), they’ll go down well with a cold Bud."
- Mike Davies / Roots & Branches -
"Artist Of The Week!"
- Benny Sørensen / Skagenexpressen -
week.02
Árstíðir "Svefns Og Vöku Skil" (ÁRCD)
"Extremely subtle and adult vocal folk from Iceland, somewhere between English Canterbury and classical music...."
- Johan Leifsson / Red Hot Rock Magazine -
"It's a cold and tough climate in the Nordic seas, especially if you live in Iceland, the island with no trees. You can truly touch the melancholy of Árstíðir's music. Their 2nd album, 'Svefns Og Vöku Skil', is a beautiful and relaxing affair of folk music and indie pop. Árstíðir ('Seasons' in English) is a vocal-based indie band from Reykjavík with a sound unique to the Icelandic music scene, with artists like Sigur Ros, Björk and Jonsi."
- Kaj Roth / Melodic Net -
"Beautifully floating music with various vocalists and dreamy sounds. Let in the dream of trolls, goblins, and haunted forests, with roots in that folk music, as reflected in the late 60's and early 70's, for example in Great Britain established - sometimes even some elements of Incredible String band. My rating; Particularly valuable, or more simply - Buy!"
- Wolfgang Giese / RockTimes -
"'Svefns Og Vöku Skil' by Árstiðir is a very suitable album, imported from Iceland, to overcome this coming horrorwinter..."
- Ivan van Belleghem / Keys & Chords -
“I really can’t pronounce their name and I don’t understand a word of what they are singing about, but I do love the heavenly sound of the music that this sextet from Iceland is presenting on their 2nd album release. With the contemporary hype over Icelandic performers in Europe, Árstiðir might soon become a big act in our region, next to already well known country fellowmen like Björk and Sigur Rós.”
- Valére Samperman / Rootstime -
" Árstiðir attracts sympathy with, beyond an undeniable talent for writing, their ability to foster imagination and invent atmospheres, as simple as they are..."
- Hyperunknown / Music Waves -
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