SHORELINE
From Eden, Home and
In-Between
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Brighton based band Shoreline is the brainchild of guitarist Tom Cowan and Italian-born vocalist Beatrice Sanjust, and incorporates the deft musicianship of a whole host of their talented associates. This 10” is their debut release and collects five beautiful tracks of whimsical folk, akin to that of contemporaries Joanna Newsom, Vashti Bunyan or Iron & Wine.

SONO
Sono

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Only moments after his second album under the Helios moniker, entitled 'Eingya', is out on the streets and Keith Kenniff is back again, this time recording with his modern jazz sextet Sono. This ultra-limited 10" is a document of a professionally recorded live performance where the band performed Bjork's classic track 'Hyperballad' and Jim Black's jazz-rock masterpiece 'Part Wolf'.

RICKARD JÄVERLING
Two Times Five Lullaby

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The debut album from Swedish multi-instrumentalist Rickard Javerling, 'Two Times Five Lullaby' takes influence from his love of American folk music, Chicago post-rock, classic Swedish prog and the pastoral ambience of Eno and Budd. Whether moulding a classic hoedown (‘Three Sisters’), a softly spoken ballad (‘Two Times Five Lullaby’), slow burning prog (‘Track’) or a nostalgic waltz (‘Martina’s Waltz’) it is Jäverling’s honesty and pure uncynical talent that always shines through, and in this post millennial climate that is more than you could ever ask for.

RICKARD JÄVERLING
The Three Sisters EP

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Swedish travelling minstrel Rickard Jäverling returns to lavish upon us further moments of heartfelt, folk-inspired beauty. Beginning with 'Three Sisters' (which also featured on his recent 'Two Times Five Lullaby' album) we're off to an explosive start; a 21st century hoedown with eyes fixed on frozen Northern European fields rather than rickety Pennsylvanian barns. With banjo, drums and guitar Jäverling and his band manage to distil a Tortoise-inspired post-rock intelligence and blend it with the traditional folk sounds that seem to have made their way into the mainstream once more. Side A is rounded off with the shimmering and beautiful 'Västbacken', a hazy instrumental piece of folk poetry bringing to mind bubbling streams and the beauty of a childish midsummer adventure. The EP's defining moment however comes on the flipside with the 7 minute epic 'Sultan'. It's hard to imagine a track more life affirming than this, which takes the Chicago post-rock formula and re-contextualises it for 2006, giving us something both reflective and quietly jubilant. Finishing off the disc are fellow Yesternow artists Shoreline, who have ushered Jäverling into their ever-growing family and contributed a 'remix' which takes the original track and injects it with a sense of fun and playful abandon.