Tag: Folk Rock

New Release: Natural Therapy

Natural Therapy is basically folk with synths. Soft and pleasant songs that alternate electric and acoustic guitars, always with a bed of pads and different keyboards. Sometimes close and friendly, sometimes more epic. But always avoiding shrillness, looking hopeful, between contained happyness and good times of melancholy.

Relaxing music, but with muscle. Again playing with contrasts: to contemplate or dream but not to sleep.

Influences… The War on Drugs, Kurt Vile, Bon Iver, out of tune instruments, wide open windows, autumn wind, Ryan Adams, Nebraska, Sufjan Stevens, Morning Phase, Vetiver, Father John Misty, Iparralde, The Jayhawks, night works, play guitar on the sofa, a forest…

Meet Point: HCA

“Housing Choices Australia (HCA) is one of the leading Quality Housing providers in Australia. A national, not-for-profit housing association, we own or manage more than 3,200 homes across Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and the Northern Territory, with plans to further increase our reach and help more people find quality, purpose-built housing across the country.

As a dedicated Quality Housing provider, we recognise the need to adapt to changing social and economic challenges to be able to deliver and improve on the homes and services that we offer to our residents.”

 

Your Story is Our Story…

 

Song: Bed

 

Song: Self-Portrait

 

Song: The Flowers Are Still Standing

 

Song: Going to

 

Review: Betterwithmusic 2014

Looking back… to move forward

 

Tumbling Dishes Like Old-Man’s Wishes


jahzzar_tumbling“A collection of intimate songs, naked in most of cases, that seek feelings from the simplicity of forms; from classic rock and folk sounds, with an eye on the latest trends.

Influences… The Band, detuned pianos, Van Morrison, Otis & Aretha, a journey from a farm to the city,Sugar Hill & La Marqueta, Mardi Grass, empty pubs, The War on Drugs, sepia photos, Phosphorescent, a lonely light in a office building, a church in the middle of a wheat field, gospel choirs, road movies…”

 

Servants


jahzzar_servants “The guitars were made with the almost complete domination of the sound. The acustic drums appeared and the original elegant ambient dried. Electronic arrangements and programmations became the background. The music turned in something direct and powerful […]

Some influences … White Stripes, NIN, a day of rage, abandoned industrial buildings, rust, drunk steps, Grinderman…”

 

 

Kuddelmuddel


KUDDELMUDDEL“Ethereal pads working as sound bed, motives and melodies on synth, reverb guitars, drum machines that seem suspended in time, arpeggiated basses, side chaining to highlight the bass drum… Soft rhythms, but not much. Dance Music, but without excess.

Influences… Lykke Li, CHVRCHES, Crystal Castles, Electric Youth, Zola Jesus, Hundred Waters, Jessie Ware, Chairlift, The Chromatics, Metronomy… A little bit of Dum Dum Girls, Todd Terje, Liars, Wild Nothing, Beach House or Daft Punk’s “Discovery”. It may contain traces of OMD, New Order and Grauzone.”

 

 

And for 2015? Well, I’m working on it…