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Håkan Jorming is an unsigned singer and songwriter from Stockholm in Sweden. He performs a variety of acoustic indie songs that are gentle and sweet accompanied by finger style acoustic guitar or piano.
“Let Me Into Your Heart” is pretty standard emo fodder underpinned by solid kick and rhythm guitar. “Things Will Happen” bears the […]

Last week Thatch sent me a link to an article about music sharing or “piracy” as the records companies would have it. Steve Knightley - singer/songwriter for “Show of Hands” who was interviewed for this article; has this to say on the subject:
“You may call this process “piracy” if you wish - for me it […]

Every so often I stumble across a band who you could arguably class as somehere between country and  Americana and I just get caught up in their performance. Today’s find is New York band “Ollabelle” and it’s their fabulous repertoire that just kills me, “songs of hard times, loss, compassion and hope” is how Fiona […]

Graham Dunne is Niamh Parsons guitarist, so if you have had the pleasure of seeing them in concert he was the one with the big wooden thing in front of him.
Seriously though if you head over to http://www.myspace.com/grahamdunneclare and have a listen to “The Southwest Wind” or “Cumha an Gra”. Just beautiful playing. The tone […]

Picture this - a choir of 30 men - complete with conductor - dressed in black suits who perform by shouting. My initial reaction was along the lines of “how bizarre.” Then I had another listen and before long had convinced myself that this unique barrage of sound had something elemental about it. Performed […]

Kathleen MacInnes has asuch an intimate style, her voice seems to conjour shared secrets and you will swear that out of the whole world you and she are the only ones who are party to these performances.
Kathleen MacInnes sings in Gaelic and her repertoire includes traditional songs from South Uist (head to Oban […]

Recently I ran across a video shot in Barcelona in 2004 by Kedar Misani of the Shumei Taiko Ensemble. It consists of a string of bites from an outdoor performance.

Taiko is a growing in popularity in America and there are numerous groups of drummers in Japan - several of which play professionally all around the […]