Tag Archives: Calm/Peaceful

Given birth to and raised in Chino, California, modern Christian vocalist/songwriter Moriah Peters was on a far more secular street, auditioning for American Idol. The superstar judges appreciated her functionality but suggested she’d become more believable if she’d “knowledge lifestyle” and “kiss a youngster,” recommendations she felt had been crass …

Merging shoegaze, folk, pop, and a wholesome experimental streak, Pinkunoizu features Andreas Pallisgaard, Jaleh Negari, Jeppe Bris, and Jakob Falgren. Located in Copenhagen and Berlin, the music group — who consider their name from japan pronunciation of the word “pink sound” — created from the ashes of octet Le Fiasko …

Along with his acoustic blues-folk sound and timeless soulful voice, singer/songwriter Michael Kiwanuka continues to be favorably in comparison to Curtis Mayfield, Terry Callier, and Van Morrison. He was created in Muswell Hill, London in 1987, to Ugandan parents who got fled Idi Amin’s program in the ’70s. He primarily …

Hailing from Booneville, Mississippi, Breaking Lawn is certainly a bluegrass/country music ensemble. Composed of Cody Farrar (electric guitar, vocals), Britt Sheffield (bass, vocals), Jody Elmore (banjo, vocals), Zach Wooten (mandolin), and Tyler Light (fiddle), the group shaped this year 2010 with an exhibit wish to create music that traverses traditional …

Pianist/composer Dustin O’Halloran and composer/engineer Adam Wiltzie met through a mutual friend in 2007, when Wiltzie was executing with Sparklehorse in Bologna, Italy. Backstage, both music artists struck up a camaraderie that progressed into A Winged Success for the Sullen, an electric outlet for what they’ve termed “harmonic Robitussin.” During …

Veterans of other rings who have all jumped dispatch, Fortunate Youngsters were formed primarily from the Rude Youngster Roots crew and also other South Bay reggae regulars who have attended open-mike evenings in Hermosa Seaside. This year 2010 they produced their formal debut using the Up-Lifted EP, while their aptly …

With only a small number of produces to his credit, Tx local Spencer Stephenson has covered a huge, impressive selection of music ground along with his are Botany. Integrating live instrumentation and dusty examples, his compositional methods are educated by hip-hop and beat-heavy digital music, however they research religious jazz, …

Gold Leaves may be the single project of Offer Olsen, half from the Seattle-based folk-psych revivalist duo Arthur & Yu. Olsen, inspired from the eclectic ‘60s songcraft of performers like Fred Neil, Miss Spence, and Scott Walker, started focusing on his single debut in 2007, and then go back to …

Around the ninth time of year of the tv screen singing competition The Tone of voice, one singer’s acoustic renderings of pop hits helped carry her towards the semi-finals. Amy Lynn Vachal, a half-Filipina vocalist/songwriter from Somerset, NJ, auditioned with “Desire a Little Imagine Me” and got on Pharrell Williams’ …

Delivered out of some relatively low-key jam periods within their Auckland, New Zealand domicile, the Pajama Membership were formed with the husband-and-wife duo of Neil and Sharon Finn. Neil, who acquired just come from a fine season that saw the discharge of Intriguer, the 6th studio record from Kiwi pop …