Holy has released another appetizer with nice garage psychadelia before their album launch. The LP “Stabs” is out on Wednesday next week. Here’s “Lights”:

Holy on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp

Last year I wrote about the Norwegian/Swedish duo Lerin/Hystad and their album “Mount Buzhou“. There they combined their instrumental music with traditional chinese music, including field recordings from a large music summit in China. On the new album they have crossed the water and gone to Japan to get their inspiration.

Like before they have sampled field recordings in the tracks, but this time taken from arcade halls and subway stations in Tokyo and Osaka. This is mixed with vibes of traditional japanese music, jazz, electronica, progressive and experimental rock. It all becomes a fascinating melting pot where the past meets the present, east meets west, the finetuned organic meets the hard, machinelike. It can coexist at one time and in the next moment the other aspect takes over. Well, it is a bit like I can imagine what Japan is like with it’s deep roots in their own traditions living side by side with the modern society and the influence from the western world. An album with an amazing creativity, abundance of details and a large span of music. Here are two songs:

Lerin/Hystad on Facebook – on Spotify – on Bandcamp

“Bloom” is the the first single from the duo I Am Karate, Erika Soldh Ahlström and Marta Pettersson. It’s a beautiful, longing song mainly focusing on delicate vocals and a solo piano, a song which has found the perfect room to live in. The song is taken from a recent EP, where you meet the duo in another two songs. Listen to “Bloom” and another song here below:

I Am Karates site – on Facebook – on Soundcloud

The duo KHOE, Robin Lindvall and Isabel Neib, have released their debut track “WLYT”, a piece of grand, seductive electro pop. Listen here below:

KHOE on Facebook

Here are playlists for Spotify, Wimp and Rara with the music I presented here on the blog between December and February.

Meadowmusic, February 2015 – Spotify

Meadowmusic, February 2015 – Wimp

Meadowmusic, February 2015 – Rara (the playlist is available on Rara’s page for recommended playlists)