Bandcamp Hunting #7 - 5 Things You Should Hear

Hidden Cabins/Brother Octopus - Landwater

This record has 6 songs, 3 from each band. It's pretty amazing to find an album of two bands together, but if that helped them to pass the financing barrier so we all earn from this mutual effort. Each of them have got another inspiration but it seems like they enjoy what they're doing and it sounds wonderful as well...

Grace & The Magic Roots - I Don't Know/Here Comes The Dogs

Grace Roots has got a beautiful voice, that's for sure. She reminds me something between Joanna Newsome and Olof Arnalds, who make great Folk music with Reggae touch

Natalie Holmes - Child EP

A young singer/songwriter from Bristol, who plays magical Acoustic Folk songs. I love this EP

The Yellow Melodies - Fan #2

I haven't heard Indie Pop from Spain before, but this band from Murcia are doing it great: Melodious and joyful....

Bretvovk - Can You See Behind The Moon

Bret Vovk gathered some of his friends in a living room, put a type II bias cassette type and recorded a wonderful Bedroom Indie Folk record. For few moments it reminded me Beirut and it sounds fabulous. This musician had to be discovered and signed!

Postcards (Pick Word #14)

These days we can see that all forms of communication are in rapid change. What was once impossible to achieve is getting easier day by day. In the past, when we wanted to tell someone far away about our feelings, he should have waited few days or even weeks until he got the letter. Today we can reach each other by mili-seconds by sending an Email to the other's smartphone. I think that we lost some of the excitement in waiting while the speed of communication (and life...) accelerated. I remember that I've been waiting over a month until I've got a beautiful postcard from a girl I met in a Polish school for future train workers near Krakow, but it worth it. The hand writing, the questions and even the mistakes she made had human scent. Here are five songs by Beirut, Faithless, Alexandre Desplat, Mark Knopfler and The Walkmen, that will try to remind us something that might disappear soon...

Faithless Featuring Dido - Postcards (Taken From Sunday 8PM, 1998)

The Walkmen - Postcard From Tiny Islands (Taken From You & Me, 2008)

 

Beirut - Postcards From Italy (Taken From Gulag Orkestar, 2005)

 

Alexandre Desplat - Postcards (Taken From The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Soundtrack, 2008)

 

Mark Knopfler - Postcards From Paraguay (Taken From Shangri-La, 2004)