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October 2014 Roundup – A Mixtape

Jon Doyle — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 17:59:00 +0000

Here is a collection of songs from artists we featured last month. In my humble opinion, there are some real gems.

Tracklisting

1. Saturday Night – The Wooden Sky
2. Wings – Field Report
3. Infestation – Bear Medicine
4. Cigarettes – Oquoa
5. Chris Bell – M. Lockwood Porter
6. Ride On, Molina – Rivulets
7. Farewell Transmission – Songs: Ohia
8. HSKT – Sylvan Esso
9. Reconstruct (feat. Seafloor) – Photay
10. Second Night – Mansionair
11. Beacon – DEAREST
12. Sweetness – Wayne Szalinksi
13. Yellow Leaves – Ezkiel
14. Travel Advisory – Baby Mollusk
15. ESRT (2001) – Whatever, Dad
16. Black Kettle – Real Life Buildings
17. Six Dollar Sunglasses – Steve Palmer
18. I Have Heard of a Land – C.Strøm
19. Blue Ridge Mountain Blues – Wes Tirey
20. Breaking Bad – Talons’
21. Raft – Sarah Winchester
22. Ontario Gothic – Foxes in Fiction
23. Thrown – Kiasmos
24. You (Nate Connelly Rework) – Nils Frahm
25. Form By Firelight (With Raphaelle Standell) – Jon Hopkins
26. Lights – Mt. Judge
27. I Love – David Karsten Daniels

Remember that we make a mix like this every month, so if you want even more cool new music then head over to the Wake the Deaf 8tracks page, or read the site itself!

October 2014 Mix from Wake The Deaf on 8tracks Radio.

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C.Strøm – I Have Heard of a Land

Jon Doyle — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 18:50:00 +0000

Last year we put together a mix of traditional folk music, and mentioned the good work of the people over at Smithsonian Folkways in conserving the musical and culture heritage of the USA. Well, if you believe in reincarnation, it is very possible that you would find the previous embodiment of C.Strøm amongst the archives, picking and strumming his way through life in pre-war America with The Carter Family or Uncle Dave Macon or Blind Willie McTell. But, as far as we know, the current iteration of C.Strøm lives in Ålesund, Norway where he records his songs onto his Craig portable tape-recorder at home.

His new album, I Have Heard of a Land, has recently been released by Dying For Bad Music, and is a wonderful little collection of slightly weird, lo-fi old-timey americana. Only one of the tracks is original. The others follow the age-old folk tradition of reworking the classics, with C.Strøm offering his interpretation of various traditional songs. You will just have to take my word for it that it was recorded in Scandanavia rather than a wooden shack in the foothills of the Appalachians.

You can buy the album on limited edition cassette via Dying For Bad Music. The tape comes with a super cool recycled tour guide map of North America.

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