Brighton based sextet Opus Kink are not afraid to get a bit atonal on their new single I Wanna Live With You, a hybrid of Madness, Pixies, and Zappa to create a very unlikely dance-floor filler. The band themselves describe it as gutter-pop, selling themselves short for coming up with a smart tune that can be enjoyed as such as well as material for music students looking for something out of the ordinary to dissect.
French folk singer and guitarist Sophia Djebel Rose has posted a video for Liberté, a track from her first full-length, Métempsycose: "It is a fragile yet sturdy collection of songs. She feels more comfortable singing in her native tongue - she sings in English as part of the abstract folk duo An Eagle in your Mind. As a solo artist, she has stripped down the sound even more, which allows her voice to become the main ingredient of a carefully prepared dish of heartfelt musings. Her quiet intensity is beautiful and compelling".
» Sophia Djebel Rose on Facebook
HCTF review of Métempsycose.
Hard-hitting blues rockers Black Country Communion sneaked in quite a bit of prog into Enlighten, the third single for their new album BCC V, due for release on June 14th via Mascot Records. Glenn Hughes still has the impressive range to bring it home and Joe Bonammassa can unleash his inner Jimmy Page.
HCTF review of Red Sun.
UK post-rock collective Winter At Sea came to the fore last year with their excellent debut Lorelei. The project features a different line-up on a new EP that shows a softer side. The four tracks on Unfound unfold themselves like flowers reaching for the first rays of the sun, an amalgam of pastoral drones, acoustic guitar, and neo-classical arrangements. Each note is played with utmost care and precision, creating a trance-like flow of music wherein textures are as important as the rhythm and melody.
Unfound is spacious and luscious, a dream that can be enjoyed while fully awake. And the good news is that one only needs to push play to relive it again. And again. Fingers crossed that a full album will be the next step in their development.
My personal philosophy is my music. It’s almost all philosophy in a very hazy form, because it’s still part of a progression. It’s just like a little baby, and it hasn’t even reached the stage for it to walk by itself. Music is my whole life. There is nothing but music and life – that’s all. They flow together so closely, it’s sort of like a parallel. And that’s the effect I would like my music to have on the audience – if not an awakened state, then maybe in a hypnotic state.
Jimi Hendrix
