Perdy Slow
Perdy Slow consists of Atlanta songwriter Brian Adams (aka Brain Atoms) and whatever instrument he has on hand-sometimes solo, sometimes with friends. Perdy Slow’s songs are meant to marry new guitar sounds with those of the past, in an effort to demonstrate that modern music is both always evolving and always in debt to its forebears. Perdy’s lyrics are influenced by his interest and gratitude towards Zen philosophy, transcendentalist poetry, absurdism, and the nature found on Earth. Perdy’s message is that of embracing kindness and gratitude in an often confusing and overwhelming world.
Gold Light
Tracking through cinematic tales of heartache, love and loss while bouncing effortlessly between genres from 50’s rock and roll to post-punk to classic country & folk, Gold Light becomes a catchall for Joe Chang’s prismatic take on American music.
Annie Leeth
Lisa/Liza
You may be more familiar with Lisa/Liza than
you know, if youÊve ever tromped home through
the pines as nighttime kicks in, or taken in a long
breath as the midday sun warmed your face.
Lisa/Liza is the songwriting project of Liza
Victoria, developed within Maine’s strange and
wonderful DIY music scene. She has toured
nationally with Jens Lekman and Advance Base
and shared bills with Angel Olsen, Kaki
King, Lucy Dacus, and Julie Byrne.
Lisa/Liza’s catalog spans ten years, with four
albums on Orindal Records, a single released
through Mexican Summer’s Looking Glass, and a
spate of self-released home recordings. Her
songwriting invites traditional folk guitar-playing
and lyricism into dream-like domains, directing
memory’s imperfections toward restoration and
healing.
On her latest album, Breaking and Mending, the
heavy, open-ended waltzes of her past work
assume a more linear form, as Lisa/Liza carries on
her tradition of shedding light on personal
trauma and life’s greater mysteries through song.
Questions about love and the natural world are
met with moments of clarity, sparked by
recollections of Judee Sill or John Prine. Above
all, Breaking and Mending deals in dualities and
the beauty of self-reconstruction, as carefully
underlined in the opening track, “Felt Twice”:
They tell me “the body minds,”
they said that, the mind was the body,
Well each time that I fell,
I felt twice,
What else can I tell everybody?
