Author: Helena Lynch
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Music for Open Windows: the Aesthetic of i give my friends flowers
The project i give my friends flowers is a gentle blend of indie soul, lo-fi folk, dream pop, and alternative hip-hop. It is music made with friends and for friends, for everyone you want to keep close. The track “EVERY MOMENT SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL DIES” is an indie dream-pop piece with blurred vocals, atmospheric synths, and…
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“Hardwarestore” by Tyler Ellis – About Simple Gestures and Deep Intimacy
As we predicted in April after the single “Union Song,” Tyler Ellis has returned with the full-length album “Hardwarestore”. If one were to find an exact image for Tyler, he is a “philosopher with a workbench.” A master of delicate truths, confidently holding both a pencil and the neck of an old Gibson. In his…
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“Mannequin is me”: Paris WYA on her New EP, High Fashion, and the Flip Side of Growing Up
Paris WYA is an artist who erased all cultural boundaries even before recording her first track. Born in Shanghai and raised between Paris and New York, she has become the perfect embodiment of a cosmopolitan pop artist of Generation Z. By day, she studies the harsh laws of economics at the business faculty of the…
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Purple Sage and Open Sky: Rusty Shackle’s New Single, Folk-Rock Without Compromise
“A man must possess freedom, as wide as the prairies,” wrote Zane Grey. His westerns made the riders of the purple sage part of myth. But what is freedom if not an inner quality, independent of geographic coordinates? Sometimes, to feel the spirit of the wild frontier, one must be born not in Arizona, but…
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Music of Close Contact: “Everything’s Fine” and Zoe Konez’s Sense of Presence
“We struggle with the riddles of thirty-year-olds like butterflies against glass,” once wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald, subtly noting the time when youthful decorations crumble, and new ones have not yet been built. Such a borderline state is a slightly awkward draft in a room where you suddenly understand: the life that you so diligently created…
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“The Nile”: Dalinda’s Acoustic Marvel, Bridging East and West
“He who drinks the water of the Nile will surely return to it again,” says an ancient Eastern wisdom that travelers crossing the deserts of North Africa loved to repeat. The great river has never been an ordinary geographical point. It is a symbol of the flow of time, memory, and feelings carried away into…
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Neo-folk of dawn: the poetics of Maria Flouri in “Astro tis Avgis”
The morning sky over the Levant artists describe as a weaving of fine golden dust, sifted through the fingers of departing night. The poet Odysseas Elytis once noted that if you strip Greece and Cyprus down to the foundation, in the dry residue you can see an olive tree, a vineyard and a ship. But…
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Roots Scattered Across the World: Jordi Forniés Gathers Them in Raíz y Recuerdo
In one of the shots of Andrei Tarkovsky’s film “Nostalgia,” the main character tries to carry a lit candle across the dried pool of Saint Catherine. The trembling, vulnerable flame that must be protected from the wind is a metaphor for longing for the homeland and a desperate attempt to preserve a living connection with…
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Stephen Wicks: “Having Finally Come out of the Closet” as a Starting Point
Who said that sharp turns are the privilege of twenty-year-olds? Our guest today proves otherwise: you can swap a strict business suit for a leather jacket and make the world listen to your voice at any age. Stephen Wicks. In the past – a successful corporate executive and real estate entrepreneur, and today – a…
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Six Thousand Hours Before Dawn – The Return of Scooter Scudieri
“Art is the extraction of order from chaos,” a philosopher once remarked, and he could hardly have imagined how precisely these words would sound in the digital age. Musical algorithms today stamp out a flawlessly sterile “content stream,” so the appearance of the album “The Musical Bruises of a Recovering Dreamer” against this backdrop looks…
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