VINYL FORMAT. Insound Staff Pick - 2009! With no sense of a release in mind, bandleader Zach Condon recorded in any style that struck his fancy. Some early discussions about recording material for a film being shot in Mexico morphed into a new idea: What about finding a local band in a small city in Mexico, hiring them to play some new material, and recording the result? It was a sincere challenge every step of the way. Condon had to find the band, which he did through a bandmate's mother who has connectio...   [ read more ]

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Intimate and uplifting, Jolie Holland's debut studio release, Escondida, is a breath of fresh air for fans of great singer-songwriters. Combining blues, folk, jazz, and pop in totally inventive ways, Escondida marks the emergence of a unique and important new voice in the music scene. The opening track "Sascha" is a perfect distillation of her vision: piedmont blues guitar (her own picking), mixed with brushed jazz drums beneath elastic vocals that hint at classic singers like Billie Holliday. Her tone is ...   [ read more ]

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This 12-track song-cycle is a crossroads where haunting meets joyful; a voice from the heavens singing stories of the underworld. Holland's songs rise and fall like heavy eyelids and convey the peace between asleep and awake, creating a special place for you to be. Sounds from past and present-tense waltz together to a never ending melody that flickers between folk, jazz, blues, and pop. Holland's lyrics conjure characters and situations one might find in the surrealistic celluloid of Jim Jarmusch. As with...   [ read more ]

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