Dutch indie label Snowstar Records are completely new to me, which is surprising as they're celebrating their tenth anniversary this year, and on the evidence of these nine tracks the music they release is very good indeed. I often worry that I'm too Anglocentric, and while I do often feature music from our American cousins, I very rarely explore music from Europe or the wider world. When such music does penetrate my insular listening bubble it generally turns out to be very good. Snowstar Records have an eclectic selection [...]
inizierà domenica prossima il tour italiano di I Am Oak - qui sotto tutte le date, e il singolo Palpable , estratto dall’album Nowhere Or Tammensaari : Palpable by I Am OakOnto Shore by I Am Oak 21 Modena @ Happen 22 Ravenna @ Hanabi 23 Torino @ Esperia 24 Castiglione Delle Stiviere (MN) @ Arci Dallo’ 25 Perugia @ Kandinsky pub 26 [...]
Tipps für eine Woche voller besserer Musik. Diese Woche mit favorisierten Sängerinnen und nordischen Versprechen. Montag, 15. April 2013 Mal düster elektronisch, mal Balladen so sanft wie weiches Licht: John Grant vermischt Klänge und Atmosphären mit geübtem Händchen. Der US-Musiker bringt sein neues Album «Pale Green Ghosts» in den Zürcher Papiersaal. Dienstag, 16. April 2013 Oropax rein: Trail of Dead sind da. Am Dienstag schreit sich die amerikanische [...]
Sep 6, 2012, 5:31pm
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Tweet I don't often listen to Dutch Folk music. Partly because I don't tend to listen to music from the Netherlands (there ain't much of it around see) and also because I don't often listen to folk. Understand? Complex reasoning I know... However, I Am Oak has taken my fancy. Maybe it's because their name makes no sense, though I guess it's catchier than I Am Horse-Chesnut or I Am Quercus (a joke for Naturalist readers of SGTMT, by 'Naturalists' I mean [...]
This arrived in my mailbox and captured a mood just perfectly for me. Watch and listen. I am Oak - Palpable Homepage
Although we now have a regular Video of the Day post on Mad Mackerel, we still can't keep up with all that we're being sent and here are a few more of the videos we would like to have featured well before now. Face-melting UK four piece Trails are making quite a name and quite a noise for themselves. Latest video is for new track Is My Purple Your Purple? , which they are also giving away as a free download. a [...]
Despite this being called the Applecast (imaginative, don't you think?) and being recorded in New York, it has preciously little to do with anything American. We just happen to be here at the moment. As soon as I record and publish this I will be heading out to watch England's inevitable hard-luck story as we go out of the Euros to Italy in the quarter finals, as seems to be traditional with England. And then I get on a ferry to the Governor's Ball, which is a music festival on Randall's Island, which looks like it will be [...]
The past few weeks have been great- school is done for the summer and I haven't yet started working, so my days have consisted of spending time with my friends and scoping out new music to share with all of you. Today I introduce you to I am Oak , the indie/folk work of the musician Thijs Kuijken . Based in The Netherlands, I am Oak has been described as providing "warm and soothing songs with an acoustic guitar and vocal backbone, complimented with strategically placed layers of colorful vocal [...]
Nowhere Or Tammensaari è il nuovo album di I Am Oak , uscito la settimana scorsa per We Will Never Be Boring #WWNBB : Nowhere Or Tammensaari by I Am Oak
Yo homies. Y'all got to go over here , where you can download the brand new single by Dutch indiefolky I Am Oak for free! A beautiful track "Palpable" is waiting for you over there. It's free for a like or a tweet , so nothing can hold you back. Expect when you're that kind of hipster who doesn't use Facebook or Twitter ; then you're fucked! Anyway, make sure you listen to the stream above, because that's what you'll miss bad-ass hipster. Yeah that's right, that's an amazing track right there: melancholic, [...]
This week's mixtape Friday Mixtape was curated by yours truly... @thelastminute aka @FridayMixtape aka duncan.co . Enjoy your weekend and don't forget to go buy some music, attend a show, or buy some merch. Please support the artists. Play Friday Mixtape 141: Download Friday Mixtape 141 Tracklist: oops! I left the tracklist on another computer. I will update this post later today with the tracklist in the right order. For [...]
♫ "On Trees and Birds and Fire" - I Am Oak "i can still feel your warmth..." ♫ "Bella" - Angus and Julia Stone "that made you feel real..." ♫ "Let It Go" - Fossil Collective "longest night i've ever known..." ♫ "Help You Breathe" - Oliver Tank "music is like air to me..." ♫ "Alone" - Trampled By Turtles "the days [...]
"Chateau" (Mickey Remix) from Housse De Racket "Gliss" from I Am Oak "Afria Talks To You" from Delicate Steve "Take Me Out To The Coast" from WATERS "Ghost Ship" from Christopher [...]
Sea+Air @ The Painted Lady: photo by Michael Ligon Another year's edition of Canadian Music Week / Canadian Musicfest has come and gone and one of the most striking aspects of this year's edition as how mild the weather was. It was pretty much the mildest weather for Canadian Musicfest I've ever experienced to the point it almost felt like NXNE . Consider that, in stark contrast several years back, The Breeders, who were on their reunion tour stopped in during Canadian Music Week to play a show at [...]
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This year was my fourth South By South West and before I left for Austin, I was apprehensive about the festival's status as a relevant music event in its 26th year. Over 2,000 bands visit the Texas capital to try and advance their careers and I wondered why they bothered anymore? Was there actually worth in them playing? Any band who travel the large distance must have a profile, a buzz or are there to strike a deal on Texas soil to make it really worth their while. Bands that travel on blind faith and hope that something [...]
Every Friday I write a column about internet-related things for Irish Independent's Day & Night . Every week, I pick out four great music picks from the best of the music blogosphere. Follow Day & Night on Twitter or Facebook . Out today in print. Also this week, see the best of SXSW downloads . Mirel Wagner Ethiopian born Finland raised singer songwriter Wagner sounds like she was influenced by mean and moody singers like Nick Cave. This is stark fingerpicking night-time music for dark hearts. [...]
Mar 15, 2012, 5:50pm SGTMT
Tweet I Am Oak . Sounds like some sort of Entish greeting from Lord of the Rings doesn't it? Well it's not, don't be so silly. I Am Oak is not Entish, Elvish or some other Tolkien obscurity, it's actually the band and vehicle of Thijs Kuijken from The Netherlands and Oasem is his folkish debut album. If you like Folk you'll be all over Oasem like a herbal remedy treating a rash. I'll be straight with [...]
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