Nobody knows who Daguerreotypes’ James Samimi Farr is, and judging from his expansive and warm folk debut, This Is My Way to Tell You That Everything Is Real and Is Happening Now, this knowledge has eaten away at him quietly for the better part of a decade. After abandoning his dreams of a music career in his early 20s, Farr has returned to these dreams, or perhaps to the grave where he believes they are buried. The album’s 20 songs are the resigned and rueful sound of him making amends with his obscurity, and his larger place in the universe. “If this is all there is, and we are all alone/My voice can go no higher,” he sings on “Born a Baritone.”
As a writer, Farr belongs to a long and storied line of married men wrangling poetry from…
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In the realm of indie folk music, the strength and veracity of the work springs from the sincerity in which it is sung. All of which may be worth bearing in mind when it comes to a songwriter’s jaundiced perspective on their surroundings. In terms of 
New York klezmer band 
In 1957, nearly seven decades before 
This is the soundtrack for the acclaimed Netflix documentary Cover-Up, co-directed by Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus centered on Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh.
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For Kid Kapichi, this fourth album marks a bold new chapter. Now a duo, after founding members Ben Beetham and George Macdonald stepped away, but recorded with them, it feels like a satisfying farewell, whilst ushering in this new beginning for the now two-piece.
Working with his co-producer-and-arranger Gilad Ronen and four vision-sharing instrumentalists, acoustic bass guitarist 
Renowned drummer Antonio Sanchez again finds himself in an unconventional trio after convening last year’s BEATrio with Bela Fleck and Edmar Casteneda. This time, Sanchez collaborates with conquero/vocalist Pedrito Martinez and the multi-instrumentalist leader of Snarky Puppy, Michael League, in a rare configuration that features two percussionists and League’s array of instruments. Their mission is to unite cultures and musical genres, not unlike Sanchez’s previous project. Here, however, at play are African ethnic groups that speak Bantu languages, the Calabar culture of Nigeria, and the Yoruban chants of Cuba, transformed into contemporary dance music and today’s jazz. As you may know, Sanchez hails from Mexico City, Martinez from Havana, Cuba…
…newly remastered by East of Lincoln Productions and Blind Owl Records.
The Sha La Das leave a mid-century trail: falsetto croons, soft romantic lyrics, seething basslines and harmonies, lots of harmonies. It comes from the larger retro Daptone universe, though producer Tom Brenneck (the Budos Band, Menahan Street Band, Sharon Jones, etc.) now releases records through his own Diamond West label. Like most of the bands Brenneck has been involved with, this one mines an archaic vibe, in this case, the elaborately arranged, silky vocal arrangements of classic 1940s and 1950s doo wop, but it is too full of life to feel like a museum piece.
…features three new tracks.
It’s in the nature of 
Dreams can be either of two things: alluring or fleeting. It can either pull you into its fascinating details, stirring enough to stick with you for quite some time. Or it just washes over you, where hazy moments can be observed, but feel like there’s not much to glean at the end of it all. 
Despite only being in his twenties, 
Ya Tseen is a continually evolving musical collaboration guided by Nicholas Galanin/Yeil Ya Tseen. Born into the Sitka Tribe of Alaska (Tlingit) Galanin is L’uknax.ádi (Raven Coho clan). He began learning music from his father, Dei Kee Tla Tin (Dave Galanin, 1955-2021), an accomplished Blues guitarist who performed under the name Strummin’ Dog. In 2013, Galanin was in a serious boat accident while returning home from a hunting trip that broke his back and ribs. He recalls the stars overhead as he was airlifted from the boat, connecting him to his earliest memory of looking up at the night sky, and his connection to Land. Galanin has returned to this experience of intense connection to Land throughout his career; in many ways, it guides his creative practice.
Minneapolis-based folk rockers, The Pines, have always been led by the insightful songwriting of David Huckfelt. On 