Melbourne s The Paper Kites have released one of the loveliest albums of 2021 with
Roses - 10 songs, 10 guest vocalists. Dave Powys (guitar) and Sam Bentley (lead vocals) tell Harry Guerin how it blossomed.
Harry Guerin: When did the lightbulb go off in your heads, A 10-track album with 10 guest vocalists ?
Dave Powys: It was never a lightbulb moment, but more of a Imagine if we could pull off a collaboration album ! We hoped for as many collaborators as possible, and through the whole process we were left with 10 tracks we were absolutely in love with.
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The Paper Kites Release New Album Roses
The album features ten new tracks, including Walk Above The City. by TV News Desk
Ever quiet achievers, premier Australian indie-folk act The Paper Kites release their fifth studio album, Roses. With their brand of weather-beaten ballads and rain-drenched pop, the ten-track album bleeds with gentle significance, full of power and sentimentality. If you were to walk along a busy street, and something caught your eye - something small that had no business being there-but you picked it up and put it in your pocket, you couldn t say why-but for some reason, you kept it with you - to me, that s our music, says frontman Sam Bentley.
‘Ireland in Music’ is a new film that captures and showcases some of the country’s top musicians performing at Ireland’s most spectacular locations, including the Cliffs of Moher and the Burren in County Clare.
TradFest, which is run by the Temple Bar Company, has re-imagined its festival for these new and strange Covid-19 times. As part of their festival project, ‘Ireland in Music’ was conceived. Knowing that visitors couldn’t visit and Irish artists couldn’t tour, the organisers wanted to find a way to open new avenues and opportunities for musicians.
The film, shot at iconic locations throughout Ireland, features a star-studded line-up including Clannad, Mundy, Lisa Hannigan, Sharon Shannon, Denise Chaila, Kila, The Hothouse Flowers, The Stunning, Wallis Bird, Saint Sister, Ailbhe Reddy, Rosie Carney, Mark Redmond, Jealous of the Birds, Tolu Makay and Delush.
Hello dear Music Clubbers!
I’m writing from pandemically wrecked Nashville, at the moment I put fingers to keyboard the epicenter of the worldwide pandemic. Which, as you can imagine, has me cringing in a corner when I’m not lashing out, virtually, about the deep cultural crises that have pushed America, and particularly its various heartlands, here. (I recommend the two trenchant albums the Drive-By Truckers released this year if you want to know more about that.) Yet as I place my latest order for curbside-pickup groceries and anticipate my daily dog-led three-mile walk virtually my only venturing forth since March I’m seized with the perverse desire to not mourn but to celebrate one aspect of this hellish year. Inspired in part, Lindsay, by your generous reading of Bob, Bruce, and Tay’s polishings of their own iconic facades, I’d like to declare 2020 the Year of Archival Awakenings: a time when, despite or maybe even in dialectical tension with the politically motivated