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Playlist at a I Am Oak

Play some tuned at a I Am Oak concert recently (last saturday). Absolutely great show by the way.

I Am Oak:

 

 

The tracks:

 

De plaatjes:

Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day
Balthazar - Bunker
Cold Specks - A Broken Memory
Allah-Las - Worship the Sun
Steve Gunn - Tommy's Congo
Destroyer - Savage Night At The Opera
Bear's Den - Elysium
Poliça - Vegas
Villagers - Courage
Madagascar - Follow Me
Ryan Adams - Feels Like Fire
Alt-J - Something Good
James - Bitter Virtue
Limblifter - Hotel Knife
Grizzly Bear - Half Gate
Young Statues - Run The River Dry
Majical Cloudz - Turns Turns Turns

- Holden Goldmund -

Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle
Menomena - Pique
Eerie Wanda - I Am Over Here
Ultimate Painting - Kodiak
Julia Holter - Sea Calls Me Home
Landlady - The Globe

- I Am Oak -

Majical Cloudz - Downtown
Fat White Family - Cream of the Young
Ulrika Spacek - Beta Male
TV On The Radio - Careful You
Savages - Surrender
Lower Dens - To Die In L.A.
Szymon - Medusa
Dutch Uncles - I Should Have Read
Matthew E. White - Vision
Widowspeak - Dead Love (So Still)
Ryan Adams - Kim
Josef Salvat - Open Season
Spoon - Do You
Tame Impala - The Moment
Baywaves - Time Is Passing U By
Bon Iver - Calgary
Foals - Black Gold
Poliça - Warrior Lord
Szymon - Katyusha
Yeasayer - Henrietta

Daily Pick #378

 

Back to the 70ies and with some neo-folk in there. Great dark funk to this track. 'Psychedelic escapades.'

The Dandelion - Daddy Long Legs

Album: Seeds Flowers and Magical Powers of The Dandelion (2015)

 

 

Is there a Julia Holter hype coming?

With many great releases on the rise this year, Julia Holter's release might not be one of the main things in everyone's agenda. But keeping in mind that her last release was still largely and in most places underrated, I would like to argue that this is definitely one of the records to watch out for this year. She is an artist in the true sense of the word, in her best days. And the track: Sea Calls Me Home is not one step away from that trend. She does not sound as the same Julia Holter. She has worked on her sound, perfected it perhaps, made it more smooth for sure. The feeling her music can give you, for example in the whistling part around 1:30, followed by the sax, is truly unique and is her true selling point.

So what has changed, her offbeat tempos, her echoing has made room for a more folky approach, a brighter song, with a simpler beat. More of a Beirut-song actually. Also she's bringing the vocals with more urge.  Unchanged is the creative instrument-use (saxophone here), here meaningful lyrics and her unprecedented feeling of freedom that comes with her tracks.

I feel a Julia Holter hype coming. And rightfully so.

I Can't Swim, It's Lucidity, So... Clear.

Enjoy!

 

Daily Pick #366

Beautifuly subtle song by folk-man Little Wings.

Little Wings - By Now

Album: Explains (2015)

Label: Woodsist Records

 

Daily Pick #345

D.D Dumbo is an artist so original (he's playing solo, yes solo) that it is hard to compare him to anything else. I'm just getting an Alt-J feel, that's all I can say, which is a positive thing for sure.

He is featured on London Calling within a few weeks.

Speaking of that festival, very, very onfortunate that Phantogram and John Wizards had to be cancelled, luckily the line-up turned up pretty good anyway as you can clearly hear in the updated playlist: London Calling Autumn 2014

 

Playlist Updates (Channel: here) :

Favorites:

Bat for Lashes - Oh Yeah

Burning Hearts - Sea Birds

Coasts - Golden City

Empires - How Good Does It Feel

Liars - Mess on a Mission

D.D Dumbo - Tropical Oceans

Bad Breeding - Age of Nothing

Spoon - Do You

The Amazing Snakeheads - Here It Comes Again

 

And there is now an electronic playlist by Ears Are For Feeling:

Electronica

 

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Enjoy!

 

Daily Pick #337

My review of TEEN live yesterday (in dutch) on 3voor12gelderland.nl . Not every show is a succes, but I still really like the band though.

That's why I share this track today. Absolutely stunning track.

TEEN - Huh

Album: In Limbo (2012)

Label: Carpark Records

 

Daily Pick #335

A new dutch act I have grown quite fond of lately. After opening the shows for Moss a while ago, Beginners has announced their debut LP will come out this September. And I believe it's going to be something special. Singer Susanne Linssen has gained experience in Hospital Bombers amongs other acts and seems to be more than ready for her own project.

At the very least this is another great song by them. 

 

 

BKS '14 Highlights: RY X impresses

The beauty of this performance was that its beauty was unexpected. RY X's music has been raging across the Indie-scene lately and without doubt it showed some great promise. But I honestly did not see this coming. 

The music is best described as a slow, but very tense (due to his voice mainly) kind of Folk, in which song composition and raw emotion are key. From second one Ry took the (in the beginning a small one) crowd on a journey, the atmosphere was just right and you could clearly notice the effect it was having on both the crowd and band (great support by the way). To the point that the band and crowd have reached some sort of harmonic mutual understanding which is only reached at the most special of shows. That is exactly what a performance on a festival like this should do. Jaw-dropping delivery of his key tracks Howlin' and Wanderlust, actually every track hit the spot from that point on and before you could say: "wow, this is pretty good", the tent stage was packed.

Every longer intro and outro was spot on, and played with exactly the right intensity. Goosebumps were spread across everybody who was there to witness an artist actually discovering how much people appreciate their music and perhaps even discovering themselves. Definitely an artist that is thinking out of the box and wants to make some more than honest and believable music. He might be able to do just that. Definitely one of my main highlights.

Here is a promo video for the festival, with RY X performing Berling.

Enjoy!

 

 

The Sound of 2013: Local Natives

8. Local Natives - Hummingbird, Infectious Records, January 29th, Folk/Folk-Rock/Indie

A band who never succeeds in disappointing me. 

 

 

The Sound of 2013 Pt. 7 : My 11th favourite album.

11. Torre Florim & Roos Rebergen - De Tweede Speeldoos, Independently released, April, Experimental, Folk, Singer/songwriter

This album is the sequel album (or in this case only sold in a classic playbox version that plays one of the 6 songs as an authentic playbox) to one of the biggest experiments of Dutch Indie music. Touching songs based on texts from a acting class of mentally disabled people. Only 6 tracks long but very impressive, not an album I will easily forget. Combining the bands of Ms. Rebergen and De Staat to play the songs live, made sure that it was one hell of a show. 

  

Funny how these lyrics are actually among the best lyrics I have heard all year, they contain the right emotion and intensity, and it was never so clear what the writer or I-person actually really meant to say. That is truly beautiful and unique.

 

I do hope this will not turn out to be their final collaboration.

 

Daily Pick #325

Oh Canada! New Timber Timbre material, again great!

 

Daily Pick #316

Nowadays I'm not much into the singer/songwriter genre anymore, but this is just freakin' beautiful.

Yellow Red Sparks - Mr. Wonderful

Album: Yellow Red Sparks (2013)

 

Daily Pick #314

10 days in the year, this is the most beautiful thing I've heard so far. Beautifully subtle and intense at the same time. These Northern Americans know what they are doing. 

Northern American - Wander

Album: Happiness Hungover (2014)

 

 

Daily Pick #301

Jonathan Wilson - Her Hair is Growing Long

Album: Fanfare (2013)

 

Daily Pick #296

Father John Misty - I'm Writing a Novel

Album: Fear Fun (2012)

 

Daily Pick #294

Julia Holter - Horns Surrounding Me

Album: Loud City Song (2013)

 

Daily Pick #289

The Mountain Goats - Indonesia

Album: All Hail West Texas (2013/Reissue)

 

 

Daily Pick #286

Eart Mk. II - Memories

Album: Music for Mammals (2013)

 

Daily Pick # 276

The Antlers - Drift Dive

Album: Undersea (EP) (2012)

 

photo from: prettymuchamazing.com

Daily Pick #261

Spilt Milk - Tea at The Palaz of Hoon

Album: Funeral Blues (2013)