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Sam Amidon

Salt River

    Sam Amidon is a singer and multi-instrumentalist (banjo, guitar, fiddle).

    New album, 'Salt River' finds Amidon reinterpreting and regenerating 10 familiar pieces of music that he has collected together over time, ranging from traditional English shanty 'Golden Willow Tree' to Lou Reed's 'Big Sky'. It was recorded in collaboration with saxophonist and producer Sam Gendel. Sam has released 7 acclaimed albums plus collaborated with The National, Bon Iver, Beth Orton, Marc Ribot & The Blind Boys of Alabama.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Oldenfjord
    2. Three Five
    3. Big Sky
    4. Tavern
    5. Golden Willow Tree
    6. I'm On My Journey Home
    7. Ask The Elephant
    8. Cusseta
    9. Friends And Neighbours
    10. Never

    John Francis Flynn

    Look Over The Wall, See The Sky

      On his new album, Look Over The Wall, See The Sky, John Francis Flynn delicately unpicks traditional songs and rearranges them with an emotional force that sometimes leaves them unanchored, foating in a surreal space between the past and the present, the analogue and the digital, between love and tragedy.

      In his frst single, Mole In The Ground, a cover of an American anti-establishment folk song recorded by Bascom Lamar Lunsford in 1928, John allows the surrealism of the song to take centre stage, opting to speak rather than sing the words. His voice, too, lives beneath the ground of the melody, burrowing its way beneath hypnotic drums, dancing guitars, and sliding violins. By taking away the nursery rhyme-like melody of the song, we focus on our narrators' fantasies and desires, but also on "the weirdness of the song, and its aggressiveness. The last line is: I don't like the railroad man/ the railroad man will kill you when he can/ and he'll drink up your blood like red wine, and I wanted to get to grips with that emotion."

      TRACK LISTING

      1. The Zoological Gardens
      2. Mole In The Ground
      3. Willie Crotty
      4. Kitty
      5. The Seasons
      6. Within A Mile Of Dublin
      7. The Lag Song
      8. Dirty Old Town


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