Tagged: victorygarden

In the early days of A Head Full of Wishes in 1994/5, in a rush to load the site up with content I made use of lots of other people. I scoured the internet and copied and leeched, I put out pleas on the mailing list and in newsgroups for anything that could find that would make my site better. In those days it wasn't the simple matter of feeding at the breast of Google - finding stuff took a bit of an effort . I lifted some of the Galaxie 500 info from [...]

Sometime throwbacks can be incredibly refreshing. When you hear a track that reminds you of reams of music and the wealth of genres and niches you used to cherish it can be a pretty great thing. The funny thing about memory is also that what one song can dredge up from your musical past, can have an entirely different effect on someone else. They might hate it, or it could remind them of artists that differ wildly from yours! With that then, I bring your attention to Victory Garden, specifically their track 'Snake Charmer'. For me, it led [...]

• Victory Garden - Snake Charmer

While I admit that I know very little about the instrument the kalimba , I do know a great deal about good voices. This song from Laura Barrett features just one of those great voices, accompanied by a lot of really unique instrumentation. The song comes from Barrett's Victory Garden set to be released on Paper Bag Records February 24th. Download: Laura Barrett - Blue Bird [MP3]

• Laura Barrett - Bluebird

Laura Barrett - The Wood Between Worlds Classically trained pianist surfs eBay looking for midi controllers, ends up bidding on a kalimba, and a musical career dedicated to "neurotic sci folk" is born. Toronto's Laura Barrett (also a member of Hidden Cameras) has followed up two EPs of ornate pop with the whimsy of her first full-length album, Victory Garden , released in Canada through Paper Bag records. MySpace [...]