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Genre: Other
Location Glasgow, Un
Profile Views: 111417
Last Login: 10/18/2011
Member Since 4/6/2006
Website wilder-shores-of-love.blogspot.com
Record Label Alt Vinyl, Locust music, Pickled egg
Type of Label Indie
Bio
.. .. New blog blog showcasing Wilder Shores of Love album artwork and art edition LPs with links to online shop at Welcome Home gallery:.. .. http://www.wilder-shores-of-love.blogspot.com/ .. .. Nalle is the trio of Hanna Tuulikki, Aby Vulliamy and Chris Hladowski. Performing since 2004, the group have toured extensively in Europe and the United States, drawing audiences into their intimate sound world. Spearheaded by Tuulikki's expressive vocals and straight-from-the-heart song craft, the music is underpinned by intuitive group interplay on an array of instruments from the four corners of the globe, from bouzouki and viola to Finnish kantele and mouth harps... .. In 2006 Nalle released their debut album By Chance Upon Waking (Pickled Egg records). In a Foxy Digitalis review it states "…the chemistry between the three is instantly obvious. Acoustic arrangements that stir like lost children late at night provide the perfect palette for Tuulikki to weave pure magic…. As a listener, you feel as overwhelmed as Nalle sounds. It's beautiful." Hanna's enthralling multi-octave vocal range and singular delivery brought comparisons to other women vocalists who have explored the limits of the voice within traditional musical conventions, but as the Wire noted, Nalle's "clear individuality banishes lazy comparisons to others operative in this area of folk-inflected new music." Their second album The Sirens Wave (Locust Music) from 2008 "is a considerably more meditative and meticulous recording" as the wire notes "a stunning conglomeration of East European and traditional Scottish nuances which fold into each other, alternately pushing then subsiding, flowing like rolling waves"... .. In spring 2010, they release their third studio album entitled "Wilder Shores Of Love" with Alt.Vinyl, produced with regular collaborator John Cavanagh. It is perhaps the most directly personal statement the band have committed to tape - an attempt at laying down bare bones of experience, endeavouring to transform the heavy lead of human emotions into moments of golden insight. Using symbolic language, recurring motifs, and the odd sprinkling of good old rock and roll, the songs weave strong narrative tapestries about love lost and found, inner mindscapes and outer landscapes, getting lost on the journey, and finding understanding... .. Nalle is in many ways inseparable from Hanna's work as a visual artist, something that she will be exploring further with "Wilder Shores Of Love" - named after the painting by Cy Twombly and inspired by the Greek myth of Hero and Leander. To celebrate the release of Wilder Shores of Love, Welcome Home gallery in Glasgow will exhibit the original drawings that make up the album artwork. (11th - 31st July) A small edition of deluxe 180g LPs with hand drawn and screen-printed covers will also be on display alongside the CD and LP releases. .. http://www.wlecomehomestore.co.uk.. .. Nalle will be touring the UK in July 2010, along with the most recent addition to the group – Aby's baby daughter Elsa... .. Members of the group also play with The One Ensemble, A Hawk And A Hacksaw, The Family Elan, and The National Jazz Trio of Scotland. .. .. Discography:.. Wilder Shores of Love (alt vinyl) 2010.. The Sirens Wave (Locust) 2008.. Live cdr (Secret Eye) 2008.. By Chance Upon Waking (Pickled Egg) 2006.. .. For reviews of past albums please see blog above... .. You can listen the Nalle live at the VPRO Dwars festival, Amsterdam, by visiting the following link:.. http://www.vpro.nl/programma/dwars/artikelen/34267594/ .. .. and in Paris at this link:.. http://www.radiowne.org/Nalle.. .. This is a video of nalle playing two songs from the sirens wave album, CCA, glasgow, end of 2007. Video by harry from harmonic rooms:.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
Members
Hanna Tuulikki, Chris Hladowski and Aby Vulliamy.. .. Joined by Ben Reynolds, Peter Nicholson, Raymond MacDonald and Alex Nielson on Wilder Shores of Love.
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Wilder Shores Of Love.. alt. vinyl CD/LP.. .. As with their 2006 debut, By Chance Upon Waking, and 2008's The Siren's Wave, whether or not you enjoy Glasgow based trio Nalle's third album rests upon what you make of Hanna Tuulikki's voice. If early Kate Bush is too fey for you, Joanna Newsom too childlike, then proceed with caution. If, on the other hand, you've always wanted to hear the Incredible String Band's Licorice McKechnie really letting rip, then look no further. Across these seven tracks, Tuulikki adopts different personae to act out variations on the mythic themes of love and death that have informed British indigenous music for centuries. Accompanied by multi-instrumentalist Chris Hladowski (with whom she also performs in The Family Elan) and viola player Aby Vulliamy, Tuulikki constructs poetic, timeless tales with arrangements that draw as much on 1960s acid folk and its 21st century descendants as they do on traditional music. In the ballad "Sunne's Return" her longing for physical dissolution, coupled with Hladowski's spidery, off-key electric guitar, creates something as creepy and haunted as an empty playground swing rocking by itself. "Lilly" is a dark vision of extinction and exile built around a heavy, Comus-like acoustic riff and hotwired with a spitting fuzz-guitar solo, in a similar vein to some of Ben Chasny's louder Six Organs Of Admittance moments. The stand-out track, "Songthrush" – which also features Scottish saxophonist Raymond McDonald and Alex Nielsen on drums, reprising the free jazz inflected playing that powered his own psych folk song project, Directing Hand – is a broiling, formless freak-out, borne aloft on Tuulikki's ecstatic, birdlike trilling. It's a breathtaking burst of magical energy, and easily some of the most convincing free- folk the UK has ever produced. (The Wire. July 2010)