Amandine is practically the reason I started Swedesplease. I began Swedesplease because I was astonished by the amount of rootsy music sung in English coming out of Sweden. Somehow the swedes just seem to get the barren, lovelorn, and tragic sound that comprises the best of the Americana genre just right.
Amandine’s new record, Solace In Sore Hands, is out this week on Fat Cat Records. For some reason everyone’s been posting the song “Secrets”, I guess it’s available free somewhere. For a change of pace here’s “The Faintest Of Sparks” which is terribly impressive given the restraint with which all the instruments are played (banjo, trumpet, piano) and given that the lyrics areat a near whisper. Buy it here from Fat Cat.
Faintest of Sparks
“For All The Marbles” live in NYC