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Nickie’s Niches #38: February 2025

Start Artist Song Time Album Year
0:02:26 Tenk Van Dool and Paul Sears King Köln 3:20 Single 2025
0:06:16 Grackle I Can Make This Right 4:47 All That Matters 2024
0:11:30 Sona Jobarteh Saya 3:48 Fasiya 2023
0:16:01 Dorie Jackson The Daylight Gate 5:04 Stupid Says Run 2025
0:21:43 Dirk Mont Campbell Gallow’s Bank 4:34 Long Time Gone 2024
0:26:45 Bleakheart Where I’m Disease 4:37 Silver Pulse 2024
0:31:51 Nicola Lori URBAN VISION 6:26 URBAN VISION 2024
0:38:46 Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions She Moved Through The Fayre 5:59 Cold Blows the Rain 2025
0:45:12 Versa Lake of Luxury 5:28 A Voyage / A Destination, Part 2 2024
0:48:33 Wardruna Jord til Ljos 0:29 Birna 2025
  1. Tenk Van Dool and Paul Sears worked up a different version of my favourite piece of theirs from their “Aperiodic Grok,” release, making it more upbeat, and giving it a royal title. It still falls firmly into my “niche-y” camp, and here it is, for your enjoyment, because why keep it all to myself? I announce the arrival of King Köln.
    1. Steve Katsikis and friends return with another lovely collection of reflective and catchy tunes. The seven-piece band is adept, and the music is lush and dense with orchestration. Instruments are keyboards, bass, drums, violin, cello, saxophone, flute, and guitars. The lyrics really shine, going from the depths of existential crisis, to the lilting joys of love and love of life, and even a cover tune from Jesus Christ, Superstar.
      1. World musician Sona Jobarteh specializes in the 21-stringed West African kora, which in itself is quite an accomplishment, as learning the instrument is normally passed from father to son. She is the first professional female kora player. She has a mellifluous voice, and is accompanied by acoustic guitar, flute, and drums on this outing. It is simply beautiful.
        1. Dorie Jackson is no stranger to progressive music, having worked as lead and backing vocalist for artists such as Francis Dunnery and Kaprekar’s Constant. Most of this second solo release is informed by Celtic music traditions, blending progressive and orchestral touches into the mix. The haunting song of insomnia, which incorporates the album title in the chorus is my favourite track.
          1. Multi-instrumentalist Dirk Campbell brings all of his acquired skills on this collection. Known for his eclectic forays into world, progressive, psych, film music, and even some jazz elements, here he presents a bit of all of these styles. He plays about 40 instruments all told, and according to his note on this recording, he features all of them here.
            1. Falling somewhere along the lines of shoegaze, doomgaze, and post-rock, Denver, Colorado’s Bleakheart features the layered sounds typical of those genres, and the heaviness of orchestration, but toss in a curveball with their ethereal female vocalist.
              1. This is a superb confluence of progressive, art rock, and jazz. Italian composer Nicola Lori has brought together a stellar crew of musicians to assist him in bringing these ruminations to life. This is contemplative and moody, like thoughts on a drive through a mostly sleeping city at 3AM. One of my favourite vocalists, Grice Peters, does the honours on my favourite track, which is the title track.
                1. Folk drone emerging from the mists of time, very slowly. Bridget has a melancholic sort of voice and everything about this recording is hushed and laid back. She is in no hurry to tell the tales, nor are her Apparitions. Harmonium, violin, and banjo, and Bridget’s quavering voice invite one to sit still and make your acquaintance with Time.
                  1. Versa is an excellent progressive band that combines prog with post rock, folk, and orchestral music in a singular way. Instrumentation is the usual suspects, keyboards, guitars, bass, drums, as well as violin and horns, and features a few big name guests. Every player, every song, is superb.
                    Not on Bandcamp: Wardruna “Birna” Wardruna bring rich and delicious dark Nordic folk, playing on both modern and traditional instruments and singing in Norwegian, Norse , and proto-Norse. They perform on tagleharpa, kravik-lyre, bukkehorn, lur, flute, mora-harp, and various forms of percussion. Steeped in nature and pagan traditions, this is the real deal. Favourite Track: 5 Jord til Ljos (5:41)

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