Tash Sultan & Nils Frahm mindful artists

Some artists are better listeners than others. Maybe its more easy when they just have to listen to themselves  and the audience;

Whoever visits Way Out West now in August should not miss Tash Sultana from Australia.
A one-man band that samples own loops and can sound really big. She has played the guitar since the age of three, and now as a 22-year-old full-fledged but also mastered other instruments like trumpet.
The song is not to complain about either, although it may probably be even more personal.
She has just released some songs yet, but they have become noticeable.

Not unexpectedly, she was discovered when she posted a video where she started the song "Jungle" at home.

Sultana is already playing on Friday, on a smaller stage one can suppose.
She is not a coming star, because I do not think she wants to be. She is the kind that lets the music speak. But she is already big and has sold out venues in Australia.
It was not long since she was living like street musician. In 2015 she was still seen on the streets of Melbourne with her guitar.

Her laugh is not yet so great, but her skill and talent can not be missed.
The music seems to be vital to her, being seen is more a side effect that helps her to survive economically.

One can expect that the first Ep is just an entrance to a hopefully long career.
Listen for example to the recently released video "Murder to the mind".
Also notice how many young girls are at the front of the stage.
So, as Sultana is needed at the music festivals, to balance all broad-based rock, although they have probably listened a lot to this, too, by judging by her guitar solo.

She has a grumpy background. Be addicted to drugs, including heroin, before being eventually poisoned with mushrooms on a pizza when she was seventeen. She entered a psychotic state that lasted for seven months. "Murder in the mind" is about that experience.
She believes that the music gradually took her out of psychosis.
Hopefully she can do without drugs now.
Because if she needs the music, we need musicians like her:
A crazy Adele loaded with an electrified John Martyn, if anyone understands.

She goes "all in" into the songs, maybe because they are vital to her, but also because the one-man band gives her freedom to improvise, add and change.

Her surviving style of play has given her wear injuries in the hands and inflammation of the larynx.
The sampling technique learns of distress has been caused by the injuries, but teaches helped make her known to her.

She is by far the biggest in Australia. Here's an annual and openhearted interview from there.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/thefeed/article/2016/11/16/i-was-complete-drug-addict-musical-journey-tash-sultana.

You who miss her in Gothenburg can wait a while before it's time again in Sweden, if you do
 not get to any of the other gigs in Europe.
It will be more expensive next time.



Nils Frahm - Solo

Frahm's previously released album, Solo from 2015, has now been digitally supplemented with some songs that did not fit the disc.

Throughout it can be said that they do not have as strong a character as those who got the place on the record.
So Frahm writes on his website that they do not fit in with the other songs.
It's hard to place Frahm's music in a genre. It is not seldom called "alternative." However, genre crossing is perhaps the best description. Frahm has certainly been inspired by Keith Jarrett's solo songs as well as by Arvo Pärt's classical repertoire.

Like Jarrett's solo project, Frahm's dito is totally or partially improvised.
Frahm does not own the same virtuosity as Jarrett, but at least the same sounds for vocals and too little beads for melodies.
He does not devote himself to jazz grooves like Jarrett, but approaches Pärt's relationship to each tone - they should be played as beautifully as possible.

If you like minimalist and serial music, type it by Philip Glass, you will also enjoy your appetite.
The pieces are recorded on a very loud piano, Model 370 built by Daniel Klavin. A small staircase is needed to get to the keyboard.
The large resonance box makes the base race especially intense and lasts for a long time.
The new recordings are four, one of which lasts only one minute.
You can see them as an exploration of the songs on the special piano and a step to make for an even higher piano, the M 450, which is only available as a model.

Both the original disc and the new pieces are free to download at Frahm's website at the time of writing. http://www.nilsfrahm.com/works/
He appeals to his supporters at the same time for support for the new piano building.

In an interview in "Mojo" with Frahm from 2013, he says that he is drawn to the incomplete and temporary and to those who transform the instruments to suit themselves, such as Charlie Parker and Arthur Russel
It is enough in the light to see the now released songs.

In February, you can decide if Frahm's music world also fits your own ears. Then you can hear and see him perform at the concert hall in Stockholm. It will to be more of electronic sounds, samples and rhythms, as here;

If you go there, you also support his journey to new and exciting sounds on the even bigger piano.