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Spokes are a band based in Manchester and Newcastle (UK), brought together in 2006 by a combination of boyhood friendships, family ties and a relentless love of recording and touring. Critics have praised them for their grand sound, buoyed by bittersweet joy and devastating lows. While sounding like a band with much more than 5 members they go from euphoric noise to moments of intense stillness. While drawing upon folk, shoegaze, slowcore and post-rock their music is always distilled down into something distinctly their own.
In 2007 they recorded their debut EP People Like People Like You which combined their...
Spokes Mashiyane is a legendary penny whistle player in South Africa and one of the primary exponents of Kwela.
Kwela is described accurately in wikipedia as follows.
'Kwela is a happy, often pennywhistle based, street music from southern Africa with jazzy underpinnings. It evolved from the marabi sound and brought South African music to international prominence in the 1950s.'
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Kalweit and the Spokes è il nome del nuovo progetto della cantante di Minneapolis Georgeanne Kalweit, del batterista Leziero Rescigno e del chitarrista Giovanni Calella.
Una sorprendente ricerca del diamante grezzo dei generi musicali, dall’ “old school blues” al folk, dall’alt-country al post-punk. Caratterizza il suono ed il mood creato attorno ad voce così intensa e inusualmente profonda come quella di Georgeanne.
Le canzoni sono sentieri intricati, reali o immaginari, talvolta ispirati da personaggi misteriosi e mitici come la diva del film muto Clara Bow (in “Clara Bow”) o da quadri di Edward Hopper (come in “New York Movie”).
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Around the Edges
Around the Edges
Around the Edges
Appliances
Curtains
Lulled
Liquor Lyles
Murky Stuff
Wetutanka
Hank's Hour
Fifth Daughter
The Last Sign
The Last Sign
Kate and Joan
Pull the Drapes
Clara Bow
Barbie Bit the Dust
Ice Man
No Need
Curtains Part 2
Guns Are Back
Steep In Sleep
All the Gods
Split Us In Two
New York Movie
New York Movie
Mulch
Clara Bow
Pea Green Sky
Guns Are Back