Nickie’s Niches #20: September 2023

Start Artist Song Time Album Year 0:02:34 Peatbog Faeries Ortigueira 6:32 I See A World 2023 0:09:37 Minstrels for Sleepless My Father The Sea – Part 1 4:53 My Father The Sea & Other Fables 2023 0:14:57 Danny Paul Grody California Angelica 7:06 Arc of Day 2023 0:22:31 The Owl Service Turpin Hero 4:03 Collected Tracks 3 2023 0:27:02 Peter Hobbs Te Ua Mokemoke 7:10 Tomo 2023 0:34:50 Lyrre Forgive and Forget 3:57 Not All Who Dream Are Asleep 2023 0:39:16 Kate Arnold The Wind and I Must Sing 5:49 Rota Fortunae 1 2023 0:45:39 Chelsea Wolfe Little Grave 3:14 Birth of Violence 2023 0:49:39 Wegferend Gedim 10:47 En Autremonde, Chapitre Second 2023 I See A World by Peatbog Faeries favorite track Ortigueira Beckoning to the world from Skye, this high-energy Celtic music blended with electronica, and sometimes verging on fusion, is just infectious, in the best way possible. Electric and acoustic guitars, pipes, whistles, fiddles, saxes, keyboards, bass, plenty of percussion, and feminine effected vocals evoke the Fae of the band’s name. My Father the Sea & Other Fables by Minstrels For Sleepless favorite track My Father the Sea- Part 1 This Dorset collective is led by Nick Palmer, a multi-instrumentalist composer, who draws heavily on the psych-folk genre. The music feels very organic, including various hushed and airy female vocalists, rich piano, guitar, accordion, clarinet, harmonium, zither, banjo, recorders, lapsteel, cello and various percussive elements. Contemplative and phantasmagoric. Arc of Day by Danny Paul Grody favorite track California Angelica These are very cerebral peregrinations featuring this fine acoustic and electric guitarist. The themes are pastoral, and evoke the beauties of the Northern California coast. The music is minimalist and hypnotic, with delicate percussion, bass, clarinets, and pedal steel for ornamentation to the central meditation of the guitar at it’s core.