Video: Long Grass

For over four years, Tom Morris has been playing with Her Name Is Calla, performing for sold-out audiences across the UK and Europe. This year, under the name T E Morris, he's recording and playing solo for the first time, stepping out of his post-rock image and creating new methods of songwriting. I first met Englishman Tom Morris this past spring when he toured through the venue where I work in Dresden, Germany. He opened a show for the American band Dark Dark Dark. Although it was his first European tour as a solo musician, he stole the audience's [...]

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I've got a rather large pile of unsorted mp3's in one of the folders of my hard drive. These are all songs that were offered on other music blogs over the past couple months (most of these fine blogs are the ones that make up the 'Musical Linkage' sidebar on the right). This past week, I've been trying to go through as many of those tracks as I can, picking out the ones I like and welcoming them to the rest of my music collection, where they will lead happy and fruitful lives until my hard drive crashes. [...]

• Her Name is Calla - Long Grass

To say that Her Name is Calla, a Leeds / Leicester / York group is special is a profound understatement, almost as profound as their music and what may stand behind it. Indeed, every artist is, I'd like to hope, is unique in their own way. I believe that aside from the inescapable outside influence, the artist has to have something original, in content, form, point of view or any other mark of distinction, to contribute. I find that the best of these contributions defy any categorization, that it is simply to be felt and experienced. Her Name [...]

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