Matt Bauer may have one of the most chilling voices in folk. The simple yet entrancing new music video for "Flowering Deer", the closing track off The Jessamine County Book of Living (Crossbill), is haunting to say the least. The track features vocals from Dirty Projectors Angel Deredoorian, Jolie Holland, and Alina Hardin among others. Gareth Smith & Jenny Lee direct. "My friends Gareth and Jenny at Smith & Lee had been working on a video for another song of mine but hap...

Lots of exciting things have been happening on the home front these past couple of months whilst we've been gallivanting around New Zealand(thus the lack of daily posts). Perhaps the most exciting event on the local music scene in 2011 was the Valentiger Front Man Show - which took place in our home studio Stone House Recording . The ever-so talented Michael Knorr has started to put together videos from the show - with the always impressive Peter Fox providing the audio. [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Every Sunday through the end of the year, http://www.largeheartedboy.com /blog/archive/daily_downloads/ will feature 10 live performances by a single artist recorded over the course of their career. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: My Morning Jacket : 2010-05-01, Columbia [mp3,ogg,flac] My Morning Jacket: "Anytime" [mp3] [...]

Photo by Andy McLeod. Noting that Matt Bauer (Brooklyn) and Dana Falconberry (Austin) were opening for Frontier Ruckus @ the Pyramid Scheme earlier this summer - we jumped @ the chance to get Matt and Dana over to the Stone House. They kindly obliged - even if it was last minute. And they couldn't have been more gracious and kind. The two recorded Two Songs For Sadie - a two song EP from which the first song of the session comes from. Matt Bauer's [...]
Great understated orchestral folk-pop is hard to find, but Brooklyn's Matt Bauer nails it. His new collection of tunes conjure the misty dawn of an Appalachian landscape. Great understated orchestral folk-pop is hard to find, but Brooklyn's Matt Bauer nails it. His new collection of tunes conjure the misty dawn of an Appalachian landscape. PopMatters is pleased to debut this video for "White Lakes" from his new record The Jessamine County Book of the Living. It was shot and edited by Matt Bauer over the course of a three month tour through 30 states. Jolie Holland provides the additional [...]

After writing an entire album centered on the unsolved 1968 murder of a girl near his childhood home (2008's The Island Moved in the Storm), Matt Bauer has again turned to the subject of his native Kentucky with The Jessamine County Book of the Living, a record that is an intimate, personal, and often fantastical interpretation of the natural world. Read more »
die machen aktuell ganz schön was her! von crossbill records ist die rede. der laden aus dem kalifornischen davis wird angeführt vom dj und konzertveranstalter michael leahy und versteht sich als plattform für die darauf agierenden künstler. mit matt bauer oder auch sea of bees, mit garrett pierce und anderen mehr hat sich schon eine feine kundschaft versammelt. in 2011 wurde sehr fleißig veröffentlicht, aber ebenso emsig auch gefilmt. davon einige ausschnitte, nachfolgend. am 23. august setzte sea of bees , das projekt von julie ann bee, mit der "gnomes ep" nach, [...]
Loving the fact that that Matt Bauer's is getting a good push behind The Jessamine County Book Of The Living , and who am I to stop the momentum? No sooner has the guy wrapped a two and a half month tour which set foot in nearly every one of the 48 contiguous, when news comes that he's finishing up a soon-to-be-released follow-up EP. But first, Bauer's new self-directed video for TICS 1979 , a song that features Jolie Holland on backing vocals. [...]

Matt Bauer - The Jessamine County Book of the Living MMMM "Magical." It's a word that's thrown around a fair amount. Some might associate it with fairy tales, cartoon mice, or a beautiful piece of music. But what does it really define? That which is magical is often something fanciful, or elaborate, capturing attention with immense detail; a marvelous web of sound that catches the listener in its multitude of layers. Then again, the purest and simplest things are often the [...]

In this edition: Pallers is on the radar, Regurgitator has your summer fun, news from around the blogosphere, and videos! On the Radar: Pallers The ambient electropop of Pallers is gripping. Pallers are long-time friends, Henrik Martenson and Johan Angergard, who hail from the same town in Sweden. The pair combine elements of electronica, down-tempo, trip hop, and 802s synthpop to create atmospheric tracks where vocals are texture as much as they are lyrical expression. Their new LP, The Sea of Memories, [...]
Like many songwriters, Matt Bauer has a strong affinity for his home environment, which in his case is Kentucky. If you've previously seen or listened to him, this should have been obvious. He plays the banjo (the unofficial passport of Kentuckians), he sports an impressive beard (not exclusively Kentuckian but certainly not un-Kentuckian), and his photos more often than not show him in uninhabited, yet accessible natural settings found in midwestern states such as Kentucky. Beyond these superficial observations, however, is a poetic projection of Matt Bauer's Kentucky that is both haunting and ethereal. His songs are considerably illustrative and [...]
The latest Chasing the Moon session, produced by Elijiah Pahati and Scott McDowell, features former San Franciscan Matt Bauer . Bauer's latest album, The Jessamine County Book Of The Living , is out now on Crossbill Records . Related Posts: Live This Month: June 2011 — an audio guide through SF concerts this month (Podcast #250) Interview: Matt Bauer
The latest Chasing the Moon session, produced by Elijiah Pahati and Scott McDowell, features former San Franciscan Matt Bauer . Bauer's latest album, The Jessamine County Book Of The Living , is out now on Crossbill Records . Related Posts: Live This Month: June 2011 — an audio guide through SF concerts this month (Podcast #250) Interview: Matt Bauer

At the risk of preaching to the choir, I will state again that Matt Bauer's newest, The Jessamine County Book Of The Living , is easily one of this year's strongest releases. In fact, at 2011's halfway marker, if you held a gun to my head, I'd probably rate it just behind Josh T. Pearson's Last Of The Country Gentlemen in terms of visceral impact. The seemingly perfect Morning Stars is probably my favorite track on [...]

In 2008, Matt Bauer released The Island Moved In The Storm , one of our favorite records of that year that has continued to hold its weight in rotation since. Earlier this year Bauer released The Jessamine County Book Of The Living , a continuation of greatness which demonstrates Bauer's a firm grasp on the songwriting craft. If you live in Austin be sure to catch Matt Bauer at Waterloo Records at 5pm this Wednesday and later that night at the Mohawk . Both [...]

It's interesting to see the ways people are exploring the meeting point of folk and classical instruments. Here's a banjo and a string section. His new album is called The Jessamine County Book Of The Living . Matt Bauer dips into the hauntedness of things, so a "Blacklight Horse" is probably not a purple glowing stallion at a rave. That's Jolie Holland singing with him on this song. Want to see the video? Matt Bauer "Blacklight Horses" Bauer plays [...]
Monday, June 20, 2011 Today's Quick Mention: Starting tomorrow Dan and I will be throwing out some words for each of the bands that are playing the little show we're helping sponsor on June 30. It'd be awesome if you made sure to check each of the entries out! Sounds and stuff. Enjoy. : Bleached - Think Of You : Until I read that they used to be members of Mika Miko, I wasn't at all familiar with the sister [...]
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I'm not going to lie to you, the last couple weeks have been more than a little hectic. I feel like I'm doing a pretty good job of keeping the shiny side up, but some things have fallen through the cracks. I'm kicking myself for missing Matt Bauer's show last week, and despite my promises, I still haven't delivered on that interview. For now, you're just going to have to take my word on a couple things. One, that Bauer's brand new The Jessamine County Book Of The Living [...]