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Nik Freitas – Sun Go Down

Pop professor.

Nik Freitas already has three CDs to his name that went by unnoticed here. Maybe we had never heard of this fourth one either, if Bright Eyes-chief Conor Oberst had not employed him as his guitar player in the meantime. His Team Love-label releases Freitas’ fourth as a result.
As tradition wants it, the man that was a photographer of a skateboard magazine once, plays all the instruments himself again in his ten new self-written songs. Nevertheless, his songs are much richer executed than his boss’s are. Continue reading

Jude Johnstone – Mr. Sun

On her own feet.

Although Jude Johnstone has been unknown for four CDs already, many know songs she wrote. Trisha Yearwood reached number one with The Women Before Me, Johnny Cash sang her Unchained, Bonnie Raitt made Wounded Heart her own and on Emmylou Harris’ latest there is Hold On.
Her eleven new songs are ballads and medium-tempo songs, played in a jazzy way and produced in an open manner. Johnstone’s vocals and piano are in the centre and, because of that, her flowing, fragile melodies are too. Continue reading

Krista Detor -Cover Their Eyes

Classic class.

Krista Detor’s third contains twelve songs in a mix of folk, jazz and gospel. Still she is first and foremost a singer-songwriter that only needs a small inducement for melancholical, but layered lyrics. She alternates between traditional folky subjects and a failed romantic visit to Paris or a not prevented suicide.
Producer/guitarist/background singer David Weber takes care of more musical barbed hooks than on predecessor Mudshow. Continue reading

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