LISA / LIZA (ME)Maine based songwriter Liza Victoria is one of the last remaining tenants of the freak folk scene that so purposefully defined the north-east throughout the aughts.
She continues to carry it forward while bringing to mind all that was so damn good about the revolving door of strange outfitters like Big Blood, Cerberus Shoals, Fire on Fire, Arborea, Micah Blue Smaldone and others.
Over about a decade of work Lisa / Liza has carved out a genre defining soundscape and as a project has taken on a
transmutative personality shifting between a purely solo endeavor and a full fledged band. She embraces sparse melody, introspective lyricism, at times almost entire feedback fed instrumentals, and in fashion to her self reliant state she represents a serious dedication to DIY.
The fallacy of capital is that supply and demand will always supply what we need at any given time. But if that were true how true then how come music like this is largely missing at a time when we need it the most?https://lisalizas.bandcamp.com/album/breaking-and-mending
https://lisalizas.bandcamp.com/album/momentary-glance
LIAM GRANT (MA)
Liam Grant is a New England guitarist and improviser cut from the American Primitive cloth. The restless guitar explorations, modal epics, and driving uptempo rags recall the likes of Grant's pedagogue, Takoma Records, and the path that was paved by his forebears John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Peter Walker, Max Ochs and later Glenn Jones, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Jack Rose, and others.
Bridging that past Grant evokes the pith of the landscape where he was raised. Instrumental memoirs and ruminations on the banks of the Merrimack River. Amoskeag. And the place where the waters flow around it. Salmon tails up the river, the exodus to Stratton-Eustis and the last night on Dead River before the great flood. https://www.vhfrecords.com/catalog/liam-grant-vhf166-lp
https://vhfrecords.bandcamp.com/album/prodigal-son
WILL DELEE (ME)
Will DeLee is from all sides an inventive self-taught guitarist and Charango player from the Pacific Northwest. He works the strings with nail and callus in a highly articulated, improvised and rhapsodic style.
Sketches in flamenco azure and soaring north american ragas in elegance and spirit. His approach is with classical suave and avant resolve.
His first LP “Improvisations for Guitar & Charango” was praised as "intellectual and profoundly sensual" (Man Tragil, Annex Blues Society). His second widely available album “Raynol Overlook” is forthcoming on Carbon Records and Feeding Tube Records. https://williamdelee.bandcamp.com/album/raynol-overlook
https://williamdelee.bandcamp.com/album/improvisations-for-guitar-and-charango-remastered
https://williamdelee.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-megalith-remastered
LISA / LIZA (ME)Maine based songwriter Liza Victoria is one of the last remaining tenants of the freak folk scene that so purposefully defined the north-east throughout the aughts.
She continues to carry it forward while bringing to mind all that was so damn good about the revolving door of strange outfitters like Big Blood, Cerberus Shoals, Fire on Fire, Arborea, Micah Blue Smaldone and others.
Over about a decade of work Lisa / Liza has carved out a genre defining soundscape and as a project has taken on a
transmutative personality shifting between a purely solo endeavor and a full fledged band. She embraces sparse melody, introspective lyricism, at times almost entire feedback fed instrumentals, and in fashion to her self reliant state she represents a serious dedication to DIY.
The fallacy of capital is that supply and demand will always supply what we need at any given time. But if that were true how true then how come music like this is largely missing at a time when we need it the most?https://lisalizas.bandcamp.com/album/breaking-and-mending
https://lisalizas.bandcamp.com/album/momentary-glance
LIAM GRANT (MA)
Liam Grant is a New England guitarist and improviser cut from the American Primitive cloth. The restless guitar explorations, modal epics, and driving uptempo rags recall the likes of Grant's pedagogue, Takoma Records, and the path that was paved by his forebears John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Peter Walker, Max Ochs and later Glenn Jones, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Jack Rose, and others.
Bridging that past Grant evokes the pith of the landscape where he was raised. Instrumental memoirs and ruminations on the banks of the Merrimack River. Amoskeag. And the place where the waters flow around it. Salmon tails up the river, the exodus to Stratton-Eustis and the last night on Dead River before the great flood. https://www.vhfrecords.com/catalog/liam-grant-vhf166-lp
https://vhfrecords.bandcamp.com/album/prodigal-son
WILL DELEE (ME)
Will DeLee is from all sides an inventive self-taught guitarist and Charango player from the Pacific Northwest. He works the strings with nail and callus in a highly articulated, improvised and rhapsodic style.
Sketches in flamenco azure and soaring north american ragas in elegance and spirit. His approach is with classical suave and avant resolve.
His first LP “Improvisations for Guitar & Charango” was praised as "intellectual and profoundly sensual" (Man Tragil, Annex Blues Society). His second widely available album “Raynol Overlook” is forthcoming on Carbon Records and Feeding Tube Records. https://williamdelee.bandcamp.com/album/raynol-overlook
https://williamdelee.bandcamp.com/album/improvisations-for-guitar-and-charango-remastered
https://williamdelee.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-megalith-remastered