cherry trees, Portland Oregon
If I Were a Genre of Music… I would
An Italian friend recently said “I don’t like Folk music unless it’s contaminated”. I knew immediately what she meant as I share a loathing of the ‘fiddly-dee /’she moves through the fair’ school of Folk.
The verb ‘to contaminate’ in English has a negative connotation meaning “To make impure or unclean by contact or mixture”. Continue reading
Last.fm is a great place to discover new music and even to make contact with artists. Marco Mahler contacted me via my group New Weird America to alert me to the release of his excellent self released debut album entitled Design in Quick Rotation.
My review of this can be found at Whisperin & Hollerin’.
Marco currently lives in Portland, Oregon although it was in the contrasting locations of the Appalachian foothills and Brooklyn that this record was conceived, a fact which explains how it the music seems to explore both the old and the new aspects of the folk traditionMarco Mahler’s music has a depth and intimacy that draws you into his world and I wanted to find out more about how this sound came about. Via e-mail I put a few questions to him :
On your website, you talk about a contrast of location between Appalachia and Brooklyn – how do you think the album would have sounded if you had made it in just one of these two places?
In the Appalachian mountains: less vibrant. In Brooklyn: less relaxing.
Could you describe the recording process for the album? Continue reading
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