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(Make Me A) TRISTE© Mixtape Episode 121: Lila Tristram

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Lila Tristram

Lila Tristram is a musician, fiction writer, artist and teacher based in East London. Sister EPs Our Friends pt. I & II were released over the course of 2020 via wiaiwya (UK) and Inpartmaint Inc (Japan). Characterised by melancholic fingerpicking, warm and intimate vocal harmonies and a weaving of bucolic British landscapes. Black and White Memories Ignited by the Scent of Springtime Explode in Colour was released on cassette via Modern Aviation on December 2022. The five-song EP is a collaborative project with The Last Dinosaur’s Jamie Cameron and combines sparse piano, rich strings and elusive vocals in a mysterious, ghostly soundscape. home, a set of 5 intimate songs were recorded, produced and mixed by Lila Tristram herself. The EP was released on 19th May 2023, with physical editions released on two labels; handmade CDs are available via Woodland Recordings, and 10″ vinyls (created by Lathe to the Grave, the only UK female-run lathe cutting business) are available via wiaiwya. The first track, January, features texan singer-songwriter Austin Basham, with whom Tristram collaborated via facetme during lockdown. Lila has been working closely with producer Gus White at his remote studio in Wiltshire on a forthcoming release, yet to be announced. Alongside writing and performing music, Tristram contributes to Folk Radio UK and Loud & Quiet magazines.

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Do Nothing – Snake Sideways

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Francesco Giordani per TRISTE©

Temevano che la band di Nottingham, che tanto ci aveva colpito con le pastose ruminazioni falliane di LeBron James (in pratica gli Yard Act con tre anni d’anticipo), si fosse persa dopo aver messo a segno due colpi consecutivi non da poco come gli ep Zero Dollar Bill del 2020 e Glueland del 2021.
L’esordio lungo Snake Sideways mette a tacere le nostre paure, dimostrandole ingiustificate, e rilancia semmai le ambizioni di una band che, sebbene ancora non del tutto capace di scindersi dalla cosiddetta scena neo-post-punk di provenienza, pare quantomeno aver trovato la via, non priva di peripezie, per arrivare esattamente al centro di sé stessa.

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The Particles – 1980s Bubblegum

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Francesco Amoroso per TRISTE©

“Do you remember the way things were?”
(Blueboy – Meet Johnny Rave)

L’indiepop è un genere musicale (sempre che si possa parlare di genere e non di attitudine) che arriva direttamente dal cuore, molto prima che dal cervello.
E’ forse per questo motivo che, pur rimanendo (per costituzione) un genere di nicchia, è diffusissimo ed è possibile ascoltare band indiepop provenienti da ogni latitudine.
Che ciò accada adesso, in un mondo globalizzato, è abbastanza normale: è possibile che un gruppo di ragazzini indonesiani, messicani, o italiani abbia ascoltato e amato Orange Juice o The Field Mice e sia, di conseguenza, spinto a scrivere un brano dalle spiccate caratteristiche indiepop. Nulla di più naturale.
Quello che, invece, potrebbe stupire -ma che, invece, non fa altro che confermare come l’indiepop sia una musica del cuore, un suono e un’attitudine che sgorgano direttamente dall’anima- è che già quaranta e passa anni fa, quando cominciarono a sentirsi i primi vagiti dell’indiepop, nascessero ovunque band che, pur non avendo alcun legame tra loro, finirono per essere, però, accomunate da un attitudine -non solo musicale- simile.

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Start Together – Skeptics (single premiere)

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Start Together are Gerard, James, Emma & Demetry. While clearly influenced by genre pioneer bands like Sonic Youth, The Cure and New Order, the Meanjin (Brisbane) four-piece Start Together create their own unique brand of shoegaze/post-everything/guitar wonderfulness. In 2018 Start Together released three singles independently; Xmal Inveigle, a post-rock slow burner, Being Born, an almost obnoxious, high-energy post-punk assault to the ears, and 9617 Graham Chapman, a comparatively more sedate and reflective shoegaze track. 2019 saw the release of their single Az Nem Verhat to complement a run of highly anticipated live shows, including supporting local favourites Hatchie and Sweater Curse on their respective tours.
Emerging from the post-COVID blues with a full-length release that has been in the slow-cooker, Start Together are now ready to present their first offerings from their long-awaited debut album. Released in June, Separate Beds is an intricately weaved tapestry of pop hooks and call-and-response choruses blended to create a dark, gorgeous guitar-driven soundscape. On the new single, Skeptics – a gorgeous instrumental – the quartet once again demonstrate their knack for weaving pop hooks with more intricate songwriting ideas to create a glistening, guitar-driven journey. Both songs are early tastes of their long-awaited debut album (due early September).

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Grand Drifter – Beautiful Praise (Video premiere)

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Grand Drifter (© Daniela Tornato)

Since 2016 Grand Drifter is Italy-based Andrea Calvo’s musical project (voice, guitar,
instruments). Sometimes as a band, sometimes him alone.
In 2018 the electroacoustic debut Lost Spring Songs (Sciopero Records): Here a gentle, delicate and introspective songwriting, ranges between emotional coordinates linked to a sort of unquiet Simon & Garfunkel, to the Beatles’ White Album and some glances over pop-rock. In 2021 the more electric Only Child (Subjangle) still follows that wistful and intimate path, adding strong reminds of some Sarah Records albums, Belle and Sebastian popness, Grant McLennan’s melody.
The new album Paradise Window will be released on CD and digital on September 8th, 2023 via Subjangle (UK).

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