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Contemporary Singer / Songwriter. As the '70s came to a close, the first wave of singer/songwriters had dispersed into soft rock (James Taylor), more experimental avenues (Joni Mitchell), or straight-ahead mainstream pop (Carole King, Paul Simon) and rock (Jackson Browne). Apart from the occasional appearance of an artist who showed some ...
The confessional intimacy of '70s singer/songwriters has evolved into something more cryptic, artful, and quietly expressive. Guitars have given way to computers, keyboards, and other instruments in the music of Bon Iver, who dresses deeply emotive songs in glitchy electronics, and harpist Joanna Newsom, who sounds Appalachian and avant-garde at the same time.
Jan 11, 2022 · This is a continued increase from last year’s 19 female songwriters within the top 100, and 2019’s 13. Taylor Swift is the highest ranking female songwriter on this year’s list at No. 9. MusicRow‘s Top Songwriters of 2021: 1. Ashley Gorley 2. Jesse Frasure 3. Josh Osborne 4. Corey Crowder 5. Michael Hardy 6. Luke Combs 7. Hunter Phelps 8.
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A collection of contemporary singer-songwriters. Cover: Ed Sheeran. Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.
- Caroline Shaw – Narrow Sea
- Robert Ames – Change Ringing
- Spindle Ensemble – Inkling
- Kmru – Logue
- Gazelle Twin & Nyx – Deep England
- Ichiko Aoba – Windswept Adan
- Blank Gloss – Melt
- Space Afrika – Honest Labour
- Stick in The Wheel – Tonebeds For Poetry
- Floating Points/Pharoah Sanders/London Symphony Orchestra – Promises
So much new composition seems to make connections between contemporary minimalism and early music. Narrow Sea sees Pulitzer prize-winning composer Shawcreate a very American variety of antique minimalism, featuring opera soprano Dawn Upshaw. The ancient folk song Wayfaring Stranger and other Sacred Harp hymns are placed in a disorientating sonic en...
Robert Ames, founder of the London Contemporary Orchestra, is a crucial connector in modern music, the arranger and conductor linking Jonny Greenwood, Frank Ocean, Little Simz, Jónsi and Actress with contemporary minimalists. His solo debut Change Ringing features six meditative, drone-based pieces, but the highlights are Tympanum and Rounds, where...
Bristol’s intriguing Spindle Ensemble feature composer and pianist Daniel Inzani backed by vibes, violin and cello. Their second LP showcases some compelling Philip Glass-style minimalism but also pushes into Morricone-esque exotica, Japanese-inflected country and western and Satie-ish romanticism.
The Bandcamp page of KMRU – a sound artist based between Berlin and Nairobi, AKA Joseph Kamaru – is always worth checking out for ambient textures. Logue, the third of five mini-albums he released this year, is an addictive mix of meditative electronica, slow-motion synth-pop and bucolic field recordings from east Africa.
Gazelle Twin’s 2018 album Pastoral was a febrile journey into the heart of middle England, mixing menacing folk chants, thuggish techno and satirical lyrics, with vocalist, composer and producer Elizabeth Bernholz serving as a retro-futurist court jester. Deep England sees her collaborating with the six-piece drone choir NYX to turn the album’s the...
This Japanese singer, songwriter and guitarist is best known for her wonderfully wayward take on bossa nova, but her first collaboration with pianist and composer Taro Umebayashi is a marked change in direction. Beautifully played and sung, it is a soundtrack to an imaginary film; a dreamlike conceptual voyage through the East China Sea; and a piec...
The latest by this Sacramento duo is a fascinating addition to the burgeoning genre of ambient Americana. It reassembles the defining sonic tropes of American roots music (woozy pedal steel, slurring fiddles, brushed drums and reverb-drenched electric guitar) as disembodied sounds put through an ambient filter. Where so much electronica conjures up...
The third proper album by the Manchester duois a truly immersive voyage – 19 tracks of manipulated field recordings, synth drones, haunted bass lines and barely there breakbeats. The spoken-word tracks have a certain Mancunian swagger but most of the record comprises icy, futuristic instrumentals which seem to distil the most ominous sonic implicat...
Best known for their punky, London-accented folk music, this LP sees the Walthamstow duo draw from their background in experimental electronica to provide a psychogeographic voyage through the capital. Anglo-Saxon poems are recast as sludge metal; ancient cockney nursery rhymes become sinister pieces of digital minimalism; urban field recordings ar...
Promises is a remarkable three-way collaboration that is simultaneously an orchestral suite, a piece of free improvisation and a groundbreaking electronic masterpiece. Yet none of those definitions really do it justice: this is a haunting piece of sound art that slowly seduces you over its 47-minute duration, using drones, frictionless modal jazz i...
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