Matthias Linder – nenya
Matthias Linder is a classically trained guitarist from Germany. As a composer, he is known to sink into the nuance of feeling and growing from there. It’s all about momentous evolutions with him. His latest release, ‘nenya’ plays with tonal gradients of the guitar, using them in a way to evoke soft and quiet visuals. It forms string by string. No rush. Nothing to get to. Just exploring and journeying through the worlds and layers that exist within the guitar strings. And the emotion that comes out of it is curious, playful, a little solemn at times, but mostly just a contemplative air that opens up such beautiful frames within the mind. The piece makes for quite a beautiful listening experience. It’s the perfect soundtrack to watch the world come into bloom this Spring.
Levi Sap Nei Thang – My Little Offering
Levi Sap Nei Thang’s latest release is her album, ‘My Little Offering’, a collection of music that explores the tethers she has to faith and God. Within this collection, and just within the title track itself, there are so many moments of hope, positivity, and joy, all strung together with beautiful, melting acoustic moments. That’s what makes it perfect for our Spring Folklore playlist. The ethos of her vocals, the country melodies, and the sentiment with which it all forms. It’s so refreshing. It makes the listener feel buoyant and so light. To be able to surrender like that, and make something beautiful just to offer it to something bigger than yourself. That’s what Spring feels like. It reminds you that you are part of something so much bigger than yourself.
AC Scott – The Ballad of Lucy Jordan
AC Scott’s ‘The Ballad of Lucy Jordan’ has such a Joni Mitchell-esque feel to it. The track forms in the echoes of a mother’s mind, a woman’s mind after she has sent her husband to work and children to school. It has a contemplative tone, with a compelling atmosphere. Between the piano melodies, the listener journeys through the dreams, childhood, nostalgia, and aches of a woman divided between herself and her children. It’s quite deep, lifting into sweet and sad moments. Weaving reality with dreams, softness with grief. There’s some melancholy, but there’s also a halo of perspective that forms around it. It gains a new life. A really beautifully conceived ballad about finally finding yourself and breaking free. Blooming.
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