Mountain Man and Feist.

Currently touring with Canadian artiste Feist, Vermont based 3 piece Mountain Man are making waves with their beautiful folk based harmonies.
Scheduled for a slot at The End Of The Road Festival in England next September, they most certainly will be a huge highlight and I'm looking forward to see them perform live again. I was lucky enough to catch them 2 years ago at the Electric Picnic Festival and it was a dreamlike memory of transcendence.

Here they perform the song 'Play It Right'.....

Another must see video is this one featuring Mountain Man and Feist perform together 'Cicadas And Gulls'.

Mountain Man Live @ The Newport Folk Festival 31/07/2011

Yesterday saw the wonderfully harmonious threesome that is Mountain Man take to the stage at the Newport Folk Festival Rhode Island. Luckily for anyone interested in what it sounded like NPR have made the show available to listen to. You will find it here

The 50 minute set includes several tracks from their only studio album to date 'Made The Harbour' along with a couple of surprises, it was the final show of their current U.S tour.

It really is an excellent recording and quite evidently one of the highlights of this years legendary festival.

Bobby

Bobby are a 7 member band who were formed out of a senior project at Bennington College in Vermont, they are about to release their excellent self titled album later this month on Partisan Records.
This is another project for members Molly Erin Sarle and Amelia Randall Meath who also make up two thirds of the alt-folk group Mountain Man. A departure perhaps for these ladies to enter into more experimental territory, it is also satisfying to see artistes spreading their talents into other ventures. Bobby's album is certainly one of the finest releases you will be likely to hear this year. Its run time is over an hour and with its building melodies and intricate sounds it grows and grows more addictive the more you listen.
My favourite track so far has to be 'Sore Spores' for the vocals especially that echo nothing but brilliance throughout.

Currently touring in the U. S. Bobby are likely to encounter a huge interest across Europe too as soon as more people get to hear the album. This is the kind of band I would love to see playing at a festival. Mountain Man were a late addition to last years Electric Picnic, my fingers are crossed that a similar situation will happen with Bobby...

Mountain Man

Mountain Man are a folk inspired vocalist group from Vermont consisting of 3 members Amelia Randall, Molly Erin Sarle and Alaxandra Sauser-Monning.
To date they have just one album called Made The Harbour which I personally think was one of the best releases of last year. The harmonies on such songs as 'Soft Skin' and 'Dog Song' are immaculately delivered over some beautiful acoustic strings.

The  standout song however is 'Animal Tracks' which for me was an instant attraction and encouraged me to go out and buy the album..

 I was greatly excited to see that they were on the Electric Picnic line up last September and I made sure to get to see them while I was at the festival. The only downside  was they were actually billed to play early at the main stage which was a bit misguided by the organisers  in my opinion because this stage demands a big audience.

Because they weren't hugely known, they had an audience of a few hundred as opposed to a few thousand.

Still it was a very memorable early  Sunday afternoon being there, shaking off the hangover from the previous day and getting inspired by these amazing songs.
Thankfully sombody on the day filmed part of this gig and put this clip up on youtube.
I really think this band are capable of a lot more great things in the future...

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