Music Genre // Folk-Acoustic

• Julian Winter – »Rock Art EP« (Pause + Netlabel) Game Soundtrack // Julian Winters “Rock Art EP” is the official soundtrack for an online game called “Alchemia”. His EP...
• Emilie Lund – »Emilie Lund EP« (Aaahh Records) Bitter-Sweet Folk Pop // Oh wow. This one totally got me… Aaahh Records made themselves an excellent name in the...
• The Black Atlantic – »Reverence for Fallen Trees« (Beep! Beep! Netlabel) Dreamy Indie/Folk-Pop // After touring internationally for two years, the Groningen (Holland) based indie/folk-group The Black Atlantic have recently put...
• Oskar Hallbert – »1123581321345589« (Zymogen) Lo-fi Folk Scribbles // Zymogen has been a little quiet for the last six months. After the Summer down, however,...
• Gillicuddy – »The Repeating Thoughts Of Old Zinng Zanng« (Resting Bell) Less grumpy, rather blissful // Gillicuddy returns with a tiny little EP on Resting Bell Netlabel. His debut “Shmalhans is...
• Anois – »Tree House Whispers« (Aerotone Netlabel) Lovely Aero-Pop // It’s been more than half a year ago that german melancholy netlabel aerotone put out a full...
• V.A. – »A Whale in a Manger« (4-4-2 Music) Xmas Muzak // Australian record- and Netlabel 4-4-2 Music released a wonderful compilation in December 2008 I only stumbled about...
• XYDZO – »Y« (Pulsations For You) Electronic Folklore Music // This record has been around for long. I was planning to write about Russian Folklore in...
• No Snow – »Untitled EP« (Merzbau) No Wave Tribal Noise</a> // I’m curious how Phlow Mag subscribers will like this release. While most of the music...
• Virot & Friends – »Release Party CD-R« (Clapping Music) Three Times Weird Folk From France</a> // François Virot released a wonderful LP at the French Clapping Music recordlabel. For...
• Cantaloup – »On A Hill Not Far Away« (Aerotone) Lovely Guitar Pop Impressions // Cantaloup is the one man shoegaze Pop outfit of German guitarist Thomas Peters. He released...
• Daisuke Miyatani – »Fragments« EP (Creation Centre) The Maestro of Accidental Folk is Back** // Daisuke Miyatani lives on a small Japanese island, works in a bookshop...
• João Triangular – »João Triangular EP« (Merzbau) Handmade Ambient, Ghostly And Ethereal // In actual fact, João Triangular is João Machado. Machado hails from the city of...
• Tiago Sousa – »The Western Lands« (Resting Bell) Free MP3 Folk Music // OK, strange heading I admit… but a precise one. Tiago Sousa of Portuguese Merzbau Netlabel...
• Brometer – »Three Feet Of« (IOD Netlabel) Experimental Lo-Fi Folk // Brometer is Mark Sargison from Nottingham, UK. His wonderful five-track EP “Three Feet Of” was secretly...
• Gareth Dickson – »Sampler« (Polymorphic Music) Ambient Folk Miniatures // Last.fm is a good source to start your investigations on certain artists. In case of UK...
• Jóvenes y Sexys – »Bruno EP« (Poni Republic Netlabel) Jóvenes y Sexys is a young and sexy lofi-folk-pop-duo from Mexico/Venezuela and their sweet melodies keep buzzing around my head...
• Pourquoi me Reveiller – »They took my bed outside« (Dying Giraffe Recordings) Eclectic Indie Rock // Pourquoi me Reveiller is an interesting Dutch indie-rock band from Rotterdam and they are apparently trying...
• U_mä – s/t (Error-Lofi Netlabel) Intimite Homerecordings // U_mä is an indie folk duo and at the same time couple from Barcelona, that put its...
• Björn Kleinhenz & Winter Took His Life – “Blood bone / Home alone 2” (it's a trap / froggi records) Extraordinary Pop // Now and then it happens that I discover music by pure accident. And now and then it...
• Mark Denardo – »Lion, Tiger, Bear« (8bitpeoples) Gameboys & accordions // Mark Denardo managed to connect two of the most contrasting genres in the netlabelscene – chiptunes...
• V.A. – »Sweets For The Wild 3« (Another Record) Indie Rock/Pop from France // Another Record is a small French record label that uses CC-licences as a promotion tool....
• Entertainment For The Braindead – Hypersomnia EP Dreamy Acoustic Pop // I always appreciate a good level of self-irony. A musician who describes her music with “acoustic...
• Ryonkt – »The World That Was Surrounded (…)« (Resting Bell) Japanese Ambient Benefaction // To readers of Phlow Magazine, Ryonkt ain’t a new name. I wrote a review about his...
• Fiktion – »Morfint« (Frukt Records) Experimental and Catchy Guitar Music // Fiktion is the moniker of Gustaf Erik Lundh from Gotheburg, the album “Morfint” his...
• Postmodern Renaissance Music // Krowley – »Four Pieces« (Autark) Autark is a new Austrian Netlabel, “Four Pieces” is their second release. While I was preparing to write something about...
• Biathalon – »Biathalon 2« (Expanding Electronic Diversity) Calm and Soothing Textures // Under the name of Biathalon, NYC-based Eric Adrian Lee composes smooth organic Ambient music that...
• Gillicuddy – »Shmalhans is Kuechenmeister« Weather-beaten** **Indie Folk // Discovering music via Myspace is a bit of a game of chance. Most of the Friends...
• Soto – »Soto EP« (Creation Centre) Experimental J-Pop Two of the four members of experimental Pop-outlet Soto made a first impact on me with their debut...
• Kaboom Karavan – »Short Walk With Olaf« (Umor Rex) Ambient Music Marching Band ** I found out about Kaboom Karavan when listening to d’incise’s free music-charts we had published...
• Werner Kitzmüller – »Proximity EP« (Beat is Murder) *Angstpop & Post-Teenage Drama** ** Werner Kitzmüller is the newest addition to the chosen artists-rooster at Beat is Murder-Netlabel. His...
• V.A. – »Cycles« (Camomille Netlabel) Superb Anniversary Compilation // Over six years Camomille distributes electronic music for free. Created in 2002 by Vincent Fugère in...
• Inlets – »Vestibule EP« (LuvSound) Songs for the Allergic // Sebastian Krueger from NYC is the handsome fellow behind the Inlets-moniker. His “Vestibule EP” for...
• Panda Bear Live DVD – for free! Dedicative Live DVD // Panda Bear is Noah Lennox of the NYC Free Folk-outriders Animal Collective. Due to the eight...
• Ryonkt – »Slow Time EP« (Dog Eared Records) Experimental Folk Armed with guitar and powerbook, young Ryo Nakata a.k.a. Ryonkt creates sparse and minimal Folk music. Alongside expanded...
• Lost on Purpose – »Anniversary« (Sundays in Spring) Guitar Folk-Pop // Lost on Purpose is L.A.-based one-man indie band Will Holland. His “Anniversary” EP was released on Belgian...