RedCrow are a new Brisbane-based four-piece group that fuses
Americana, blues and roots music with ambient soundscapes into concise and
melodious 3 minute songs.
RedCrow consists of ARIA-nominated songstress and songwriter
Sarah Calderwood (Sunas, TwoCrows), who weaves her delicate yet dark soaring
vocals with bluesy surgical instinct; Paul Brandon (Sunas), writer, polymath
and player of acoustic and electric guitars shimmers, driven by his ear for
stylistic authenticity; Mirko Ruckels (Pretty Violet Stain, Deepspace) adds to
the prime directive of song by his use of chiming guitars, vocals and ambient
soundscapes; and Markus Karlsen (The Company, Pirate Brides), who rocks the
double bass and plucked his way across the country with the wind in his ‘tash.
Harmonies that make the listener unable to separate the
singers. A wall of pure Americana blues underpinned by ambient soundscapes.
Songs of life and grit - RedCrow will leave you with a smile on your face &
dirt in your soul.
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Band Members:
Sarah Calderwood - Vocals, whistles, ukulele
Paul Brandon - Acoustic & electric guitars, percussion
Mirko Ruckels - Vocals, acoustic & electric guitars,
keyboards, banjo
Markus Karlsen - Double bass
“Burning North Sky” is an awesome debut album by Brisbane Australia’s “RedCrow”. The album covers a swath of Americana / Folk / and Roots Rock genres and does it with harmonic vocals, sound, vision and class, a real must listen for Folk and Alternative Country music Fans ~ Stewart Brennan, World United Music
"Heavy winding psychedelics Mt. Mountain formed in mid
2012 in Perth, Western Australia. The release of a well-received demo ‘Omed’ in
2013 and their debut self- produced EP “EP” in 2014 has led to the winning of
the 2014 WAM “Breakthrough Artist” award and international/national support
shows and tours with the likes of Om, Bardo Pond, King Gizzard & The Wizard
Lizard, Stonefield and Earthless." Straight off the back of our mid 2014 EP release,
We've spent the later half of the year back in the studio writing and recording
our debut full-length album. December 1 brings a brand new single
"Chantry" from the upcoming album recorded by roderick Madden-Scott
& Jeremy Beste at Fremantle Recording Studios. The new single will also be
the second vinyl release from the band pressed alongside another new track on a
very limited edition 7 Inch that will be launched on December 19 at Mojos Bar
Fremantle. Band Members:
Steve Bailey - Vocals
Derrick Treatch - Guitar
Glenn Palmer - Guitar
Brendan Shanley - Bass
Thomas Cahill - Drums
Dean Lewis is an unsigned musician / songwriter from Sydney
Australia that has just begun his creative journey in the music world. Judging
by Dean’s first smash hit “I Want You Back” that is taking the world by storm,
he is well on his way to great success.
“I Want You Back” is about a girl I met in Sydney. I
travelled to New York to be with her, it went badly. Expectations vs reality
kinda thing…All the stuff in the song really happened, time square, the rain..
Ended up at a friends’ lake house in Boston, where I wrote the song that
afternoon.”
Those home-made style recordings may be giving it their best
shot at clinging on to the indie masses, but the past few months have seen an
undeniable shift towards bigger and bolder sounding songs. Even the lo-fi
darlings of a few years ago like Tennis or Dum Dum Girls are setting their
sites on something a bit more ambitious. It can be hit and miss of course;
either taking you to a new level or polishing away all the charm that made
those records such a success in the first place. Sydney band The Fixators
finalised their line-up in 2012 and there's no doubt where they stand in all of
this. After a debut EP, they now release 'Colourblind' to coincide with a tour
of their homeland's sweltering east coast.
Showing much ambition with their music, the quartet are
taking aim at the mainstream, but doing so under the guise of an indie-rock
band. Their record collection probably contains a few classic stadium-rock acts
such as U2, but their sound isn't quite so unashamedly commercial. The plan
here seems to be to impress with the sheer force and tightness of their tunes,
while enchanting music fans (not just those who buy two albums a year) and
trying to capture a decent share of the market. Granted, this track may be a
bit too sanitised for some, but its inch-perfect production and storming chorus
is made for both heavy radio rotation and filling cavernous venues. If things
go their way, there could be some pretty big crowds at their gigs before long.
We wanted ‘Is This How You Feel?’ to be the
blueprint for the record,” declares Izzi, “In terms of the sounds, and what we
wanted to achieve.”
Given the song’s success, it seemed a tall
order. The breakthrough single catapulted the five-piece from Sydney’s worst
kept secret to Australia’s freshest music export, landing them on stages at
Glastonbury, Coachella, Bonnaroo and the Jimmy Kimmel Live show. It clocked in
at #9 on triple j’s Hottest 100 poll, won the coveted Vanda & Young
Songwriting Competition, and earned them high praise from fans as diverse as
Pink, Harry Styles and the late, great Doc Neeson.
Blue Planet Eyes not only lives up to its
bold aspirations, it blows them away. As addictive as it is ambitious, it takes
the promise of ‘Is This How You Feel?’ and projects it widescreen, popping with
delicious grooves, hip-hugging bass lines and choruses that just won’t quit.
From the sultry swagger of ‘Whatever You
Want’ to the juicy licks of ‘Ordinary’, through the hedonism of ‘Rock And Roll
Rave’… it’s an exhilarating combination of Rock & Roll and Soul, at the
centre of which beats a heart of brash, joyous pop.
“I really wanted to explore pop writing,”
explains Izzi “That’s the overarching theme [on the album]. I never thought I
would be writing pop music, I don’t think any of us did. But the more I got
into it, the more I love it – how I could make people feel the most in the
least amount of time”
With two acclaimed EPs to their name, the
band finally bunkered down to record their long-awaited LP amidst a heavy
international touring schedule. As luck would have it, their first pick for
producer Jim Eno (best known as the drummer of Texas rockers Spoon) was
available, so they packed a suitcase of half-formed songs and headed to his
Public Hi Fi studio in Austin.
“Jim taught us a lot of good shit,” says
Thomas. “It was nice to work with a producer who’s in an actual band that we
respected. He could explain things frankly.”
With Jack and Jim sharing the production,
the three-week sessions were busy and fruitful. The band worked through songs
during the weeks, jetting off on the weekends to play shows. Working songs in
the studio, then road testing them live at career defining shows at South By
Southwest and Coachella.
“When we played ‘Somebody’s Talking’ for
the first time at Coachella, it didn’t have a chorus – I was just riffing
words,” recounts Izzi, “We got away with it, but it wasn’t ideal. I much prefer
writing in the studio, but playing it live made me realise what a great song it
could be.”
With time at Public Hi-Fi running out all
too soon, the band came home to their Sydney studio ‘Doldrums’ in Surry Hills
to finish the job and “add the sparkle”.
“It was like we’d spent three weeks making
playdoh and then had to mould it into something,” says Thomas. Jack continues,
“We had two weeks left, we stayed up so many nights going through all the
sessions. Last minute takes, re-tracking entire songs in a day… It was
exhausting and tense.”
The late nights and last minute takes have
paid off in full. Short, sharp and punchy: Blue Planet Eyes shows a band boldly
evolving and reveling in their newfound freedom and vitality.
“I never want people to be bored when they
listen to our music,” says Izzi, “I just want a record that makes people happy
and present. That has songs that make you feel like there’s no other song on
Earth for those three minutes.”
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