(Make Me A) TRISTE© Mixtape Episode 202: Norabelle

Norabelle

Hailing from Dundalk, Ireland, Norabelle consists of Ken Clarke (Guitar & Vocals), Shane O’Hanrahan (Guitar, Vocals, and Piano), Stefano Rossi (Bass), and Stephen Ludlow (Drums). The band draws influence from artists such as Sun Kil Moon, Bonnie Prince Billy, and Sufjan Stevens. Norabelle’s debut album, Wren, was out in 2011 and earned widespread acclaim for its poetic storytelling and elegant arrangements. The Sunday Business Post described it as featuring “achingly sweet harmonies, overlaying acoustic guitars, cello and the lightest percussion, but it’s their poetic storytelling that sets their songs apart from the throng.” On the 11th April 2025, after a fourteen years hiatus, the band released their second album entitled The Mountain Blinks. Each track on The Mountain Blinks invites listeners into deeply personal narratives. From the poignant reflection on memory and mourning in She’s Not Here to the tender love song Warm Blood, the album carries a raw emotional weight.

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TRISTE© Radio per Indi(e)pendenze 5

“Sulla parete una scaletta dei Tiromancino, i Jam periodo In The City, Pete e Carl dei Libs, Moretti il batterista degli Strokes che sbevazza con gli amici, i Beatles che reggono il cartello “All You Need Is Love” in quattro lingue diverse con George Harrison, dei quattro il mio preferito, e sull’armadio a sinistra la fila disordinata dei cd. Sulla parete vicino al letto un’insolita coppia: Il Laureato con Dustin Hoffman sedotto dalla signora Robinson e McEnroe nel celebre gesto del servizio.
Luigi Pavone – Babies

Rinnovare la presenza di TRISTE© a Indi(e)pendenze, la trasmissione che si occupa di musica alternativa dal lontano 2015 sulle frequenze di Radio Casotto e di NEU Radio, da tempo curata dal caro amico e collaboratore Matteo Maioli, che in ogni trasmissione si apre a ospiti, collaborazioni, première e interviste, è sempre una grande gioia. Quando poi c’è la possibilità di raccontare di musica e di letteratura, la gioia raddoppia. Qualche settimana fa, grazie a Matteo e Francesco Giordani, abbiamo colto al volo questa opportunità e abbiamo parlato ancora una volta di un romanzo importante (per noi, ma non solo), scandendo le nostre chiacchiere con da una tracklist che ha alternato brani ispirati dal libro al meglio della musica indipendente dei primi mesi dell’anno in corso.

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(Make Me A) TRISTE© Mixtape Episode 201: Faith Elliott

Faith Elliott

Faith Eliott is a songwriter and visual artist. Born in Minneapolis, they moved to Scotland nearly two decades ago. Through storytelling and world-building, they illustrate intuitive landscapes populated by hagfish, Pleistocene volcanoes, cursed memes, and late-Renaissance apocryphal monsters lurking in the aisles of Asda. Sonically, Eliott grounds themself in a stripped-back, lyric-driven songwriting approach that evolves through the recording process to incorporate orchestral elements—often contributed by frequent collaborator Robyn Dawson—along with electronic textures and found sounds.Their forthcoming album Dryas will be release on Lost Map Records tomorrow, May 30th. This record follows two previous releases, Impossible Bodies (2019, OK Pal Records) and Insects (2016, Song, by Toad Records), both of which received critical acclaim, including coverage from The List and The Scotsman, as well as national radio play on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, and 6Music.

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Fortunato Durutti Marinetti – Full of Fire (Single and video Premiere)

Born in Turin and based in Toronto, Fortunato Durutti Marinetti (Daniel Colussi’s new moniker after Pinc Lincolns or The Shilohs) playied in various bands for the last twenty years, and quietly self-released solo albums. Memory’s Fool, a small, complete and in-depth work on the relationship between the sounds of the past and the present, a small philosophical treatise and his second release under this name (following 2020’s Desire) was his first time working with proper label support. Drawing inspiration from the restless, explorative spirit of 1970s songwriters like Lou Reed, Robert Wyatt and Joni Mitchell, Marinetti chose to first wrote all the lyrics before assembling a hybrid pickup band of jazz, folk and rock musicians to render his songs into a form he calls “poetic jazz rock”. And indeed, Eight Waves In Search Of An Ocean, his 2023 album and its first for Quindi Records is poetic jazz rock of the highest order. Known on both sides of the Atlantic for his baroque, poetic approach to songwriting, now Fortunato Durutti Marinetti returns with Bitter Sweet, Sweet Bitter, out via Quindi Records on July 25th, his most sweeping, absurd, and emotionally acute statement to date. Calling it Poetic Jazz Rock — at once a private joke and an honest descriptor — the Toronto-via-Turin cantautore (Italian for singer-songwriter) delivers an album of maximalist grace, gilded sorrow, and lyrical intensity. Today he unveils the first single from the album, Full Of Fire.

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