Anglo-Lebanese singer-songwriter Nadine Khouri -now based in Marseille- releases today her new single, The Night Will Keep Us Warm, upfront of a tour of the UK and Germany, as special guest of Barry Adamson.
Recorded with legendary producer John Parish (P.J Harvey, Dry Cleaning, Aldous Harding) The Night Will Keep Us Warm sees Nadine Khouri fuzzed up and blissed out as you’ve never heard her before.
On her latest album, Another Life, Khouri and Parish take a minimalistic approach to both vocals and music alike: there is a serene, dreamlike quality to the songs, suffused with otherworldly, beatific textures. The soul-inflected Keep On Pushing These Walls set to stripped-down drum machine and Mellotron saxophones, is a joyous tribute to the late Canadian singer-songwriter Lhasa de Sela, who passed away in 2010 aged just 37.

Silver Biplanes are led by wife-and-husband team Vanessa Vass and Tim Vass. Vanessa was the singer in 90’s indie band The Melons who are probably best remembered for their two legendary live sessions on Mark Radcliffe’s Radio 1 show. Tim was bassist and lyricist in cult Creation label band Razorcuts, co-writing all of the songs on their two albums, both of which landed in the top 3 of the Indie Album Charts.  Tim has also played in Red Chair Fadeaway, Dandelion Wine and the Forever People.They are joined by drummer Rob Scott, guitarist Noel Douglas and keyboard player Steve Peebles, adding a range of shimmering textures to recordings and live shows. Their first album, A Moment in the Sun, was releases in 2022 on on the Where It’s At Is Where You Are label.

Belgian (of Dutch origin) artist Chantal Acda needs absolutely no introduction. Her earlier musical odysseys, including Sleepingdog, her project in conjunction with Adam Wiltzie of Stars of The Lid (Naked in a Clean Bed, 2006, Polar Life, 2008 and Whit Our Heads In The Clouds And Our Hearts In The Fields, 2011), her solo albums, Let Your Hands be My Guide (2013), The Sparkle In Our Flaws (2015), Bounce Back (2017), Puwawau (2019) and Saturday Moon (2021), and her collaborations with Chris Eckman and Eric Thielemans (as Distance, Light & Sky, Casting Nets, 2014, and Gold Coast, 2018), the dutch poet Lotte Dodion (Nu Nog Even Niet – #1 & #2, 2018), Bill Frisell (Live At Jazz Middelheim, 2018), and Bruno Bavota (A Closer Distance, 2022) has resonated with audiences worldwide.
Her new album, Silently Held comes to life with the collaborative brilliance of accomplished musicians.

“Jenny said
When she was just about five years old
You know why parents gonna be the death of us all
Two TV sets and two Cadillac cars
Well you know, it ain’t gonna help me at all, not just a tiny bit
Then one fine mornin’ she turns on a New York station
She doesn’t believe what she hears at all
Ooh, she started dancin’ to that fine fine music
You know her life is saved by rock ‘n’ roll, yeah rock ‘n’ roll
Despite all the computations
You could just dance
To that rock ‘n’ roll station“
Velvet Underground – Rock & Roll

Ci auguriamo davvero che Matteo Maioli si goda la presenza di TRISTE© nella sua trasmissione quanto ce la godiamo noi. Perché ci stiamo proprio facendo l’abitudine e ci dispiacerebbe fare la fine di quegli ospiti che sono graditi quando arrivano, ma poi non si vede l’ora che tornino a casa loro. Anche perché, come dicevamo l’ultima volta che siamo stati qui, a Indi(e)pendenze ci sentiamo un po’ a casa (e non vorremmo rischiare di allargarci troppo).

TRISTE© favourite Seablite, from San Francisco, purveyors of magnificent dreampop and fog pop melodies, partner with Ride’s Andy Bell and his GLOK project to reimagine Faded, off their recent Lemon Lights LP, which, mastered by Mark Gardener of Ride, was out on 29 September 2023 on Mt.St.Mtn.