Les muses de La Musa: Molly Burch

Molly Burch semblava predestinada a fer cançons. Quan era petita, mentre la majoria de nens i nenes de la seva edat jugaven amb playmobils o videojocs, veia desfilar artistes per casa amb tota naturalitat: el seu pare era productor musical i la seva mare directora de càsting. D’aquesta conjunció només en podia sortir brillantor i talent, com va ser. A més, Burch, que viu a Austin però va néixer a Los Angeles, va decidir estudiar música de ben jove, poc després arribarien les primeres cançons, influenciades pels discos que sentien a casa: des dels Everly Brothers fins a Sam Cooke.

Amb aquest panorama, era qüestió de temps que aparegués el primer disc d’estudi d’aquesta californiana, ‘Please be mine’, publicat per la prestigiosa discogràfica novaiorquesa Captured Tracks, casa de bandes tan influents com Mac Demarco, Chris Cohen i The Soft Moon.

L’elapé de debut de Burch, que pot recordar des de les veus de les Shirelles fins al caràcter mutant d’Angel Olsen, s’inspira en les melodies dels 60 i la cançó d’autor nord-americana, tot passat pel filtre de la nova onada indie-folk dels Estats Units. Temes melancòlics, d’amors que marxen, soledat i certa penombra. I pinzellades de llum, esclar.

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Les muses de La musa: Hindi Zahra

Hindi Zahra is a Franco-Moroccan singer and actress. When coming up with a stage name, she simply inverted her birth name. Her songs are mostly in English but some lyrics as in the song “Imik Si Mik” are in the Berber language.

Influenced by singers like Cheikha Rimitti, Hindi Zahra has drawn comparisons with Beth Gibbons of Portishead, Manu Chao, Billie Holiday, Patti Smith, and Norah Jones. In April 2015 her second studio album Homeland was released.

Les muses de la musa: Madeline Kenney

Madeline Kenney‘s upcoming debut album, Night Night at the First Landing, was produced by Toro Y Moi’s Chaz Bear (formerly known as Chaz Bundick), but there’s nothing chillwave or dance-y about it. Instead Kenney is more in vein of Angel Olsen or Marika Hackman, with some dream-pop touches thrown in. The album is due out September 1 via Company Records (an offshoot of Carpark spearheaded by Bear).

 

The muses of la musa: Alice Glass

Former Crystal Castles frontperson Alice Glass has released a new single and video. Titled “Without Love,” it’s the singer’s first foray since 2015’s “Stillbirth.” The video is her first as a solo artist. The clip was directed by Floria Sigismondi, who’s worked with Perfume Genius, Bjork, and Katy Perry.

Les muses de La Musa: Marem Ladson

Aquesta jove de 19 anys, qui ja té primer single “All My Storms”, és una de les tres artistes seleccionades pel Proyecto Prisma, una iniciativa que té com a objectiu donar visibilitat a artistes menors de 23 anys a través de un programa que combina la formació, l’assesoria i la experiència de la música en viu, i amb la que colabora el Vida, festivals entre altres organitzacions.

The muses of La musa: Warpaint

Warpaint is the name of the angelic Los Angeles quartet formed by Emily Kokal and company. A project that dazzled from their beginning with their EP debut record, Exquisite Corpse (Manimal Vinyl Records, 2009), where the hypnotic and ethereal art rock was already revealed. Record after record they have improved their dark and atmospheric folk sound of shoegaze and psychedelic nuances until their third album, Heads Up (Rough Trade/Popstock!, 2016), where the fog and the mysterious aura of their songs finds its best version.

The muses of La Musa: Lídia Damunt

The singer-songwriter and guitarist from Murcia Lídia Damunt clearly exemplifies that sometimes less is more. Simply with her guitar, Lídia is able to build a bright and close pop based on clear and bright melodies. A personal project that evolves in her fifth solo record Telepatía (Tormina Records, 2016), an album that works as a summary of everything she has done so far.