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Artists You Have Discovered Lately

Antirabbit

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Here is another one I just stumbled across. Linked is a live recording, its melting my face as I type.
Two drummers...
 

JanesJr1

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At the risk of sounding curmudgeonly, I find it harder to find new good (non-classical) recordings now. Be that as it may, yesterday a recording hit me just right and I'm a little smitten. I'm bringing it here not only because of the music and the singing, but also the exquisite attention to detail in the accompaniment and recording.

Sarah Jarosz released Blue Heron Suite earlier this year. Folk, with just a hint of country or jazz syncopation on the side. She writes simple, beautiful melodies, and with her high voice and lack of vibrato, she almost sounds a little like a younger girl in her studio recordings. Yet the total sound, her voice with her ensemble, is very rich.

She is a craftsperson as well as an artist. She loves her tools. The accompaniment by mandolin, her own guitar, bass viols, etc. seems so carefully composed, and her small ensemble creates acoustic tonalities that sometimes seem like you've just never heard them before.

Nicely recorded as well.

You can hear and see a selection here: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...79406144128BD760569779406144128BD76&FORM=VIRE. But you need to hear the album as a whole. The separate cuts compose a larger structure. The core simplicity of her music flowers into a kind of tone poem with small forces.
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JanesJr1

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I discovered her some time back and like her music.

But why post a screenshot of a YT video when you could have posted the actual video? :)

I did post a link to the video. If there's another way to do it, let me know!

BTW, I don't use Youtube much except as a passive consumer of other people's links, so I'm not sure how to do it.
 

Artsfols

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Great fun to discover this thread.

I have been blogging about 'new artists' for some years now at https://gesprek.net/category/music/

I also compile various playlists which you can find on youtube, and a lesser degree, spotify, by searching for my avatar name "artsfols".

What I look for are performance oriented youtube videos that I can watch on the big screen while listening through my sound system.

At a quick skim through this topic, I see many artists I'm familiar with and really like, but also some new territory, so I look forward to viewing those.

Each year I produce a ranked top 40 (or so) playlist of the best (according to us) performance videos of the previous years.

For the year 2021 so far, we have published a 'discovery' list of 270 videos published through the most recent year. You can access this at the blog link I posted above; it's in the post that's top of the pile right now.

(You might be interested in the process I followed to compile this list. I first data mined youtube for 220 artists that I follow. This gave me a spreadsheet with 7000 videos with a hotlink for each one, and also a description to find the performance, acoustic or stripped videos I'm looking for.
After many hours combing through this list, I moved on to the next stage - going through all the new entries for Paste studios, KEXP, WFUV, et cetera, to which I subscribe. By the way I recommend subscribing to Mahogany. At one time KEXP was the best performance video publisher but they have really slipped. Mahogany currently leads the pack by a long shot.)

This 'discovery' list is designed for browsing - although I know some will go through the entire list. We'll short list this down to 60 or so, a panel will score, and then we produce our ranked list. It's all for fun, and I'll watch the end result over and over again through the winter. If I can also get more clicks for some of the undiscovered artists that we put on the list, so much the better.

There's some tremendous talent in the under 1000 clicks category, and you have to take a few rough edges with it on the production end.

My blogs and playlist are not monetized in any way; it's all for personal enjoyment.

Here is a link to the list we created last year - 2020.


If you are interested I would suggest diving into the top 10 to see if this is your cup of tea or not.
 
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