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Mary Lattimore & Julianna Barwick :: Magic Tragic
Post-classical ambient, historical harps, vocal loops and wildfire aftermath
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Records are followed back into the things that made them: rooms, instruments, damaged tape, field recordings, weather, family histories and particular stretches of land. Folk, ambient, experimental music, electronics and song meet here without a fixed hierarchy. Hwael listens closely to the music, and to everything that has entered the recording with it.
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Gia Margaret :: Singing
Folk pop, processed voice, trumpet and the recovery of song
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Virginia Astley :: From Gardens Where we Feel Secure
Pastoral ambient, field recordings, English gardens and concealed unease
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Nick Drake :: Pink Moon
Fingerstyle folk, open tunings, close vocals and radical subtraction
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Western Skies Motel :: Trails
Ambient folk, fingerstyle guitar, post-rock tension and imagined Americana
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Gareth Dickson :: Orwell Court
Ambient folk, fingerstyle guitar, reverb and faded post-punk memory
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The Innocence Mission :: My Room in the Trees
Pastoral folk, hushed vocals, home recording and passing time
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Juni Habel :: Evergreen In Your Mind
Pastoral folk, American primitive guitar, synths and classroom memory
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Dagmar Zuniga :: In Filth Your Mystery is Kingdom/Far Smile Peasant in Yellow Music
Ghost folk, Lo-fi folk, four-track tape, reversed vocals and magnetic decay
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Cate Kennan :: Shadows
Dream pop, lo-fi textures, synth haze and adolescent memory
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Vashti Bunyan :: Just Another Diamond Day
Folk, pastoral miniatures, acoustic textures and landscape as song
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Liana Flores :: Flower of the Soul
Folk bossa nova, chamber arrangements and British-Brazilian inheritance