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Magic Tuber Stringband

Magic Tuber Stringband, hailing from North Carolina, probes the undercurrents of the landscapes around them. Highly skilled players and writers, the trio are leaders within the burgeoning avant composition world utilizing folk instrumentation. Their music appears to weave in and out of the fabric of their surroundings, reflecting their time spent living across the Southeast and studying its regional folk traditions and natural histories. Having performed recently at Big Ears, Hopscotch, Sound & Gravity (and many other places along the way) the group’s music resonates well beyond their regional roots. Their newest record, Heavy Water, will be out May 22 on the venerable Thrill Jockey Records. The ensemble continues to stretch the parameters of acoustic instrumental expression with masterful flourishes of dense, textural arrangements, subtle minimalist gestures and deft improvisation.

Kevin Coleman

Kevin Coleman has already proven himself to be one of the more adventurous artists within the cosmic Americana sphere, but with K.C.Blues, Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist progresses Appalachian and fingerstyle guitar traditions into a whole new beast Inspired by roughened field recordings of blues and folk music from the early 20th century, this album finds Coleman further embracing spontaneity, the art of imperfection and the freedom of live improvisation and open collaboration to his expressionistic style of string music. Recorded in various non-traditional spaces with equipment that sometimes malfunctioned with friends like Trevor Nikrant (Styrofoam Winos, MJ Lenderman, Ryan Davis’s Roadhouse Band), Tommy Stangroom and J.W. Bird leaning into freeform sonic experimentation, K.C. Blues reflects a more discordant and chaotic side to Coleman’s otherwise pastoral sound.