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Daytime Moon – “Soaker”
Petal Motel is pleased to share the first video from Chrysanthemum, an album we’re assisting with the release of. Is it ethical? IDK but no one is paying me. As you know, I love guitar music and begged the guitarist of the band I play in, Daytime Moon, to record a solo guitar record and here it is! Chrysanthemum is a bouquet of contemplative, intimate guitar soli compositions from Morongo…
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Marcel Sletten – “Your Love”
Marcel Sletten, who runs the label Primordial Void and released one of our favorite ambient albums last year is back with a new album entitled Irish Words and a Bottle of Myrrh, to be released on his own label on February 25th. Petal Motel is pleased to share the first single, “Your Love” from the album. Listen here: Irish Words and a Bottle of Myrrh by Marcel Sletten “Your Love”…
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Essential Guitar Records – Bandcamp Shopping List for Winter 2022
You know I’m a slut for acoustic finger-style (or flat-pick, or electric, really any kind of soft->shred->soli guitar playing). I asked – many Twitter friends delivered. Here are a bunch of newer guitar (ok, I also added a few non-guitar, but, stringed-instrumental) albums (most recently released or about-to-be-released) that are just… music to my ears. Ernie Francestine – The Quiet ShiftSome of the prettiest playing I’ve heard in a while.…
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Shane Parish – “Haul Away Joe”
Shane Parish’s Liverpool, a collection of reimagined sea shanties, is out March 4th on Dear Life Records. Today he shares the video for single “Haul Away Joe.” Shane’s interpretations turn trad into transcendent. I first heard this song on the album “Foc’sle Songs and Shanties”, which I learned about when I was reading Bob Dylan’s memoire “Chronicles Volume I”. This was around the time my career unexpectedly veered into folk…
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Ross Jenkins – “Small House”
Today, Ross Jenkins shares the first single from his cosmic Canadian album Free All Day, out March 4th. The first single, “Small House” features Barry Walker’s pedal steel adding an element of the unheimlich to the cozy, delicate melody, intricate guitar picking, and Ross’s sensitive, pensive voice. Listen here: Free All Day by Ross Jenkins Free All Day is the name of the forthcoming album by singer-songwriter Ross Jenkins.It’s first…
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So Much Love to Give : A Mix by Marcel Sletten
Marcel Sletten runs a label called Primordial Void, and he also recently released this incredible psychedelic ambient album last year on Sound as Language that’s become one of my favorite electronic records. As I’ve gotten to know him a bit on the internet, his diverse array of musical interests intrigued me. So naturally, I asked him to make a mix. “So Much Love To Give is an hour-long collection of songs…
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Davide Cedolin – Contemplations & other Instrumentals from the Valley
I was just thinking that we’re past due for an album of gorgeous acoustic guitar instrumentals and just like that, this gift from Davide Cedolin arrived in my inbox. I’d recently been revisiting his instrumental Guitar Meditations in “C” and his songs from Embracing the Unknown was right up my alley. Contemplations and other Instrumentals from the Valley by Davide Cedolin These eight songs of gorgeous, transcendent meditations tickled just…
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Tess Parks shares “Happy Birthday Forever” from new! album!!!!
OMG. I love Tess Parks so much and was literally just thinking that I wish she’d put out something new (her last full-length solo album was released in 2013) and bam! And Those Who Were Seen Dancing is out May 20th on Fuzz Club and we’re so pleased to share the first single today and Hand Drawn Dracula in Canada. Tess’s smoldering, bewitching voice and her brilliant musical intuition promise listeners that…
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Howless – Rain & Ice
Mexico City’s newest indie darlings are set to release their upcoming debut To Repel Ghosts on February 18th. Finally, some fresh industrial-sounding noise rock from these youths who have clearly done their homework. “Rain and Ice” is the second single, a heavy low notation synth lead-in creates an atmospheric & moody staging for a recurring apocalyptic dream-theme. The track is sonically dark & also pushes in a heavier direction without…
