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Pōneke-based songwriter Miles Calder and his band are performing three shows in December in celebration of the atmospheric new single Lake Geneva : a melancholic march delivered as a knowing sigh of acceptance.
This striking new song follows up the psychedelic single Take Me Back to How It Was released in October. Four years on since his last outings with former backing band The Rumours, Calder’s revived sound shelves folk-tinged rock to explore swirling psychedelia on often personal and self-reflecting songs.
Written at the same time as ‘Take Me Back to How It Was’ when feeling “lost and isolated” while living in Switzerland, Lake Geneva is about surrendering to the inescapable march of time and change. With melancholic verses that give way to spacious choruses, Calder s reverb-drenched vocals float in the space, recognising the coming flood, - “Saw the darkness in the deep, oh lord / I swear Lake Geneva rose righ
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Pōneke-based songwriter Miles Calder and his band are performing three shows in December in celebration of the atmospheric new single Lake Geneva : a melancholic march delivered as a knowing sigh of acceptance.
This striking new song follows up the psychedelic single Take Me Back to How It Was released in October. Four years on since his last outings with former backing band The Rumours, Calder’s revived sound shelves folk-tinged rock to explore swirling psychedelia on often personal and self-reflecting songs.
Written at the same time as ‘Take Me Back to How It Was’ when feeling “lost and isolated” while living in Switzerland, Lake Geneva is about surrendering to the inescapable march of time and change. With melancholic verses that give way to spacious choruses, Calder s reverb-drenched vocals float in the space, recognising the coming flood, - “Saw the darkness in the deep, oh lord / I swear Lake Geneva rose righ
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• Dec 14, 2020
Despite a global pandemic, there continued to be a steady stream of global sounds throughout 2020. And if we couldn’t travel literally, perhaps more of us will be inclined to do so musically and discover some of the great work that musicians from all around the world have to offer.
This year you could travel the Silk Road from one end with the Chinese band Manhu and Mongolian ensemble Khusugtun to the other with Turkish oud player Mehmet Polat or explore the whole route with 3,14 (whose 2020 release takes its title from the scientific name for the silk worm.)
It’s hard to resist almost any Afrobeat, and there were quite a number of choices this year, but especially so if you go to the source (Nigeria’s Bantu) or one of its more unlikely outposts (Lithuania’s Ojibo Afrobeat).
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