Sound Cloud Sunday – October 18, 2020
Sound Cloud Sunday October 18, 2020
Welcome to this week’s edition of Sound Cloud Sunday….another great day of new and indie sound from #laurelcanyonsound artists from across the globe….signed, unsigned, just cool stuff. Stay for the last track’s uber political message from Brother Gabe’s House. You can listen to the whole show….click to listen below….
Zach Heckendorf – Waves
Hometown: Denver, CO
Album: From the album “Hawk Tawk” released August on Missing Piece Records.
Review Snippet: When Zach Heckendorf was 18, it seemed like he was on the fast track to stardom. The singer–songwriter had a major record deal, his music was being compared to the likes of Jack Johnson and John Mayer, and he had already opened shows for many prominent artists, including Mat Kearney, Rodrigo y Gabriela, and Michael Franti. But when he moved to Los Angeles shortly after graduating from Cherry Creek High School in 2011, the promised level of fame didn’t follow. “I got thrown around in the major label system,” he says. “I wasn’t fully ready for it.”
Website: http://www.zachheckendorf.com/
Aaron Frazer – Over You
Hometown: Brooklyn via Baltimore.
Album: From the album “Introducing” out January 8 on Dead Oceans produced by
Review Snippet: Not everyone who has heard the music of Durand Jones & the Indications realizes that the band has two lead singers. Aaron Frazer has always been the falsetto counter balance in the soulful group. However with a new single “Bad News” produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, Frazer sets out to prove he can do just as well on his own. The song is a soulful bop that’s hard to ignore while the video is just as groovy.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/AaronFrazerMusic/
The Parson Red Heads – Turn Around
Hometown: Portland, OR
Album: From the album “Life Of Comedy” out November 13 on Fluff and Gravy Records.
Review Snippet: The Parson Red Heads evoke the melodic sound and sonic textures of the late 1960s era Beatles-inspired psychedelic scene.
Website: http://www.theparsonredheads.com/
Mipso – Hey Coyote
Hometown: Chapel Hill, NC
Album: From the album “Mipso” released in August on Rounder Records.
Review Snippet: The members of this North Carolina-based quartet can finally be called an all-Americana band after thinking outside a state of contentment to record their fourth album in a winter wonderland of opportunity.
Website: https://www.mipsomusic.com/h
Malcolm MacWatt – The Widow And The Cruel Sea
Hometown: London via Scotland
Album: From the self-released EP “Skail” released in August.
Review Snippet: Picking up the pace with strummed acoustic guitar and a jaunty chorus, there’s a more traditional Scottish folk air to The Widow and The Cruel Sea which relates the story of a young woman who loses her fisherman husband at sea and, resolving to escape the constrained life of a Highland widow, marries her brother-in-law. Using “the gifts that God gave me to keep him sweet as a man can be”, she eventually embarks on a new life in Portland, albeit on that sees the death of her child.
Website: https://www.malcolmmacwatt.com/
The Weather Station – Robber
Hometown: Toronto, Ontario
Album: Single released October 14 on Fat Possum.
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Website: http://www.theweatherstation.net/
Electric Peace – Stranded In Love
Hometown: Reseda, California
Album:
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Website: https://www.electricpeace.band/
Church Of Roswell – The Witcher
Hometown: Nashville
Album: Debut single on Studio 42 Records.
Review Snippet: Of the song, Doyle shares, “The concept for ‘The Witcher’ came from one of those late-night conspiracy theory conversations that Candi and I like to have, that make our producers roll their eyes,” while Carpenter adds, “Our goal is to bring people together on a psychedelic quest through space and time. Is that too much to ask?”
Website: https://www.facebook.com/churchofroswell/
Colleen Orender – Love Me Harder
Hometown: Nashville
Album: Self-released single.
Review Snippet: Colleen Orender has intertwined rhythm and blues with jazz to perfection with “Love Me Harder.” When I listened to this song, it immediately had me wondering about what else Colleen Orender has in her vault. As I listened to more of her material, I have become a fan. Just like “Love Me Harder” her music has substance, has meaning and it is full of heartfelt emotion. However, you don’t have to take my word for it, take a listen yourself so that you can feel the sensation of that rhythm, blues, and jazz of Colleen Orender’s “Love Me Harder”.
Website: https://www.colleenorender.com/
John Calvin Abney – When This Blows Over
Hometown: Tulsa, OK
Album: From the album “Familiar Ground” released September 11 on Black Mesa
Review Snippet: Today is the release of “When This Blows Over”, a song of storms from the new album. This is a message of hope, but not one that disregards reality. Rolling Stone featured the tune as a Song You Need To Know, calling it “gorgeous and hopeful…like Elliott Smith if he fronted an alt-country band from Oklahoma”.
Website: https://www.johncalvinabney.com/
State Cows – Caught In A Landslide
Hometown: Sweden
Album: New single self-released on October 5.
Review Snippet: Any group that can kick out a gumbo of yacht rock and Steely Dan mid-career brilliance deserves our attention. And from day one the Swedish band State Cows has serenaded our ears with this caliber of music, the kind that introduces hearty jazz-rock fusion to palettes of soulful ‘80s pop.
Website: https://statecows.com/
Sean Hogan – Make It Look Easy
Hometown: Sarney, Canada
Album: From the album “7 Come 11” released in January on Barnstorm.
Review Snippet: is uniquely authentic blend of ‘alt-country’ and ‘modern rustic pop’ immediately caught the attention of country radio and music fans across Canada, leading to his first Canadian Country Music Association award (Independent Male Artist of the Year, 1997).
Website: https://seanhogan.net/
JD Eicher – History
Hometown: Youngstown, OH
Album: Self-released new single.
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Website: http://jdeicher.com/
Rick Shea – Blues Stop Knocking At My Door
Hometown: Los Angeles
Album: From the album “Love & Desperation” out October 2 on Tres Pescadores.
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Website: https://rickshea.com/
Brother Gabe’s House – Mother Freedom
Hometown: Nashville
Album: Single just released on Future Girl Records.
Review Snippet: The song was penned by Gabriel Jordan (AKA Brother Gabe) as a response to the destruction of American democratic values that he, like most of the world, has witnessed with horror over the last four years. Beke Love (Brother Gabe vocalist), worked out the melody and brought his words to life.
Website: https://www.brothergabe.us/
