The Maestro of Accidental Folk is Back | Daisuke Miyatani lives on a small Japanese island, works in a bookshop and releases beautiful, erratic guitar-music all over the world. His records at MiMi, Rain Music, Magic Book and Ahornfelder dog me ever since I started listening to free music. What joy to see his most recent “Fragments” EP published at Creation Centre! Listen & Read more »

Handmade Ambient, Ghostly And Ethereal | In actual fact, João Triangular is João Machado. Machado hails from the city of Lisbon and is part of the intimate artist-rooster at Merzbau, the Portuguese Netlabel run by Tiago Sousa. The music Machado releases under the Triangular-moniker is a ghostly mix of field-recordings, analog instruments and a lot of reverb. Listen & Read more »

Desert Music For Airports | OK, strange heading I admit… but a precise one. Tiago Sousa of Portuguese Merzbau Netlabel releases his fourth album “The Western Lands” at Resting Bell and manages to establish himself as the Brian Eno of desert Rock. Textures that flicker like hot air, wishful guitar melodies and desolate folk pickings make up for a unique piece of campfire Ambient. Listen & Read more »

Experimental Lo-Fi Folk | Brometer is Mark Sargison from Nottingham, UK. His wonderful five-track EP “Three Feet Of” was secretly released at IOD, the French Netlabel build from the leftovers of EKO and SKM. Airy-fairy lo-fi Folk, psychedelic chamber music and ad hoc recordings into the microphone of Sargison’s laptop. Ingenious. Listen & Read more »

Ambient Folk Miniatures | Last.fm is a good source to start your investigations on certain artists. In case of UK Gareth Dickson, Last.fm tells us “Solo acoustic guitar with effects and vocals“. That’s true on a technical level, still so much information is missing. Add adjectives like introspective, tender, experimental and blissful to get a bit closer to the Dickson music. Listen & Read more »