Currently out on tour with Owen Pallett (dates below), the wonderful Snowblink have put together a video for the song Ambergris with their friend Terri Loewenthal. Ambergris is taken from the album Long Live which is still officially unreleased, though if you like the song, and you will, you can buy it here.
If you were to tell me you’d heard a more beautiful song today, I’d probably call you a liar…
Never been much of a Michael Jackson fan, other than the excellent Off The Wall album, but this is rather lovely. Canadian off-kilter folkies Snowblink have recorded a Michael Jackson tribute session for Daytrotter.com
The highlight is their version of Thriller which is sung over the tune of their own song, Rut & Nuzzle.
The session is available as a free download or as a loss-free version for only $4.00 here.
A snowblink is a white luminosity on the underside of clouds, caused by the reflection of light from a snow covered surface. An apt choice of name then for Daniela Gesundheit’s band as her music is a kind of reflected and dreamy folk music which has the feel of being there yet somehow not there.
Long Live, the third Snowblink album (It follows two limited edition and now out of print home recorded albums), meanders gently through the landscape of its fifteen tracks in an unforced manner which is possibly a reflection of the fact that it was recorded in as wide a range of locations as it is possible to imagine – a studio in Sacramento, a log-cabin in Mammoth Lakes and an apartment in Toronto are among the places the album was put together.
Since the inception of the band Gesundheit has surrounded herself with a cabal of musicians and vocalists, which at one time included MGMT, to fill out her delicate arrangements and layer them with strings, glock, and a host of less conventional instruments. Despite the musical patchwork which makes up the album, it never sounds less than intimate with Gesundheit’s crystalline voice shimmering throughout. If you are looking for straightforward folk music look elsewhere though, there isn’t a moment of ordinariness in Long Live, everything is slightly off kilter and so much the better for it.
