Cornwall Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/cornwall/ New and independent music Wed, 24 Apr 2019 12:04:39 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/varioussmallflames.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-finalwhite-e1490809629909-1.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Cornwall Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/cornwall/ 32 32 88787050 Song Premiere: Captain – Hotel Room https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2017/07/11/song-premiere-captain-hotel-room/ Tue, 11 Jul 2017 12:39:52 +0000 http://varioussmallflames.co.uk/?p=12750 Captain is the recording project of Cornwall’s Tilda Lindsey. Lindsey makes an ethereal strain of folk that feels rooted in the British coastline, sometimes hazy, sometimes foggy and often understated, moments of bright clarity appearing at irregular intervals, burning through the sea mist to provide ephemeral light. Elsewhere there are greater extremes—waves more fierce, waters more blue—but in its temperate nature, Captain’s music provides a special emotion of its own, dreamy and strange without losing its constant, wistful warmth. ‘Hotel […]

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]]> Captain is the recording project of Cornwall’s Tilda Lindsey. Lindsey makes an ethereal strain of folk that feels rooted in the British coastline, sometimes hazy, sometimes foggy and often understated, moments of bright clarity appearing at irregular intervals, burning through the sea mist to provide ephemeral light. Elsewhere there are greater extremes—waves more fierce, waters more blue—but in its temperate nature, Captain’s music provides a special emotion of its own, dreamy and strange without losing its constant, wistful warmth.

‘Hotel Room’ is exhibit A in backing this up, the vocals airy and fuzzy, rising in steady cadence and tethered to earth by nothing beyond the constant rhythm of the guitar. Lyrically, the track is tacit, pushing numerous snippets of unclear imagery that add up to something almost sensory, recognisable in shape and weight if not directly. Because this is a placid love song for indistinct summer times, where days and dates blur into one, a memory melted into tactile sensations of heat on skin and hazy sunshine.

“Could I be new, you are in a hotel
Reaching me in the summer night swell
Meet me at the top of the road
Head on down whilst it’s still warm on our backs
You are what every night lacks”

In Bloom Again is set for release on the 8th August via Fox Food Records, including a gold/blue glitter cassette edition, and you can pre-order it now from Bandcamp.

 

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]]> 12750 Ahava – Steal, Kill, Destroy EP https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2014/07/02/ahava-steal-kill-destroy-ep/ Wed, 02 Jul 2014 19:01:49 +0000 http://www.wakethedeaf.co.uk/?p=187 Ahava is the recording project of Yasmin Gale from Falmouth in Cornwall. In the album description she confesses that, for a variety of reasons, she had not written music for six years prior to this release. But a recent university project inspired her to get back into songwriting, and so she locked herself away in her bedroom with just her guitars and computer for company. The result was Steal, Kill, Destroy, this absolute gem of an EP. The EP is seven tracks […]

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]]> Ahava is the recording project of Yasmin Gale from Falmouth in Cornwall. In the album description she confesses that, for a variety of reasons, she had not written music for six years prior to this release. But a recent university project inspired her to get back into songwriting, and so she locked herself away in her bedroom with just her guitars and computer for company. The result was Steal, Kill, Destroy, this absolute gem of an EP.

The EP is seven tracks of haunting, ambient folk music, backed with Gale’s excellent vocals. Some of the tracks are sterling examples of conventional lo-fi folk, all fragile vocals and lovelorn lyrics (see ‘Blood’). Others (such as ‘Longing’) are something a little different, the vocals joining a hazy swirl of ambience, producing something more akin to Julianna Barwick than Laura Marling.

Gale signs off the album description by saying, “Nothing big or fancy….just plain and simple….Maybe a bit too simple, but i hope you like them for now”. She is either being unnecessarily modest, or is capable of something pretty extraordinary if this is “too simple”. You can download the album right now on a pay-what-you-want basis over at Bandcamp

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