Tag Archives: Daniel Bachman

The Morning Star – Daniel Bachman

I am tired and irritated by what feels like constant exhortations from people who patently don’t know or care about me trying to wring the last drop of something from me, emails with headers like, ‘Hey Robert, can we please … Continue reading

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Say Goodbye – Ehrnman/Pearson

This popped into view today, a day of some silent sadness, when Say Goodbye is a very appropriate thing to say. Ehrnman/Pearson are a Kansas City based duo with this (debut ) two-tuner surfacing via the wonderful Russian Winter Records.  … Continue reading

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Ten Drones on Cassette – A Lily

James Vella came into my consciousness, oh some many years ago, with his band Yndi Halda for whom I have long held a rather sustained affection, with their prog leanings and willfully arcane influences. James himself trades also as A … Continue reading

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Daniel Bachman at the Lantern, Bristol

It has been a long time coming, waiting to see Daniel Bachman play in flesh, so to speak. A musician of rare and remarkable talents he popped up at the Lantern in Bristol this weekend. Apparently this was his third … Continue reading

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My ’12 from 2015′ list sort of thing …

Another year has zipped by so fast it almost feels premature to have an ‘end of 2015’ list; but looking back now so many old friends only seemed to make an appearance over these last twelve months. So here goes, in … Continue reading

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River – Daniel Bachman

Getting to know Bachman’s latest, very fine, album several miles above the Arabian Sea feels both an odd thing and at the same time, strangely appropriate. Throughout his releases so far there has been this running parallel with music from … Continue reading

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Oh Be Joyful – Daniel Bachman

Sitting here in a dreary, damp and unseasonably cold UK listening back to Daniel Bachman latest album, I am struck by both how alien, but also strangely familiar, this music is. Underneath the quintessentially American country-folk picking music is a layer both … Continue reading

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Spirit Canoes – Stag Hare

. Today was pretty much a rubbish day and I wasn’t feeling on top of the world, grumpy (again) and a tad stressed out. Then a little mail popped up from those fine people at Hands in the Dark Records … Continue reading

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Apparitions at the Kenmore Plantation – Sacred Harp/Daniel Bachman

. Every now and again kind labels drop me a line pointing me at a new artist or two and, where I can, I am happy to oblige and I pen a few words. Most recently the enigmatically named Morgan … Continue reading

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