MICHAEL FEUERSTACK (CAN)
Across almost 25 years, Michael Feuerstack has built an underground canon of crooked and beautiful songs. Aside from his own song-craft under his name and former alias Snailhouse, his reputation is also as an exceptional collaborator, producer and general facilitator of music. Mike has contributed to countless performances and recordings with the likes of The Luyas, Bell Orchestre, Camille Delean, Thus Owls, Paper Beat Scissors, Land of Talk, Julie Doiron, and many many more.
About NATURAL WEATHER his latest album there is a clichéd way to say anything worth saying, so Michael Feuerstack simply looks for the scenic route and tries to enjoy the journey at the same time. On his latest full-length album, Natural Weather, the songwriter wanted to make something gentle and complex: a recording that celebrates music as a refuge from binary thinking – a means to seek wisdom in the grey areas.
Recorded at home, Natural Weather offers a deceptively rich palette. Most of the instrumentation is provided by Feuerstack, with Jeremy Gara from The Arcade Fire on drums and violin cameos by Sarah Neufeld. The background singers also figure prominently: Camille Delean shadows Feuerstack in harmony, while Michelle Tompkins and Mike O’Brien glimmer in response.
This collection balances Feuerstack’s signature dark humour and empathic inquisitiveness as the songs relax into deep ambiguity around heavy themes: love, death, memory, age, mental illness, intimacy, and ambition
THE FIRE HARVEST
is stilletjes uitgegroeid een van de beste bands uit de Nederlandse muziekscene. Vijftien jaar schrijft dit Utrechtse viertal prachtliedjes die ergens tussen alt-country, slowcore en post-rock laveren. Om specifieker te zijn: een band die invloeden van artiesten als Songs: Ohia, Palace Brothers, Smog en Red House Painters met liefde op de mouw draagt.
De nieuwste langspeler van The Fire Harvest draagt de naam Open Water. De materie van het album komt voort uit lange gesprekken in de tourbus, razend over de Duitse autobahn. Het album verschijnt op 1 maart bij zowel Snowstar als Subroutine Records. De eerste single Not Going To Work geeft het eerste neusje van de zalm, met het vertrouwde Fire Harvest geluid in optima forma: huilende gitaren, slepende drums en de indringende zang.