Nickie’s Niches 17: June 2023

Artist Song Time Album Year Go Go Penguin GoGo Penguin Everything Is Going to Be OK 4:42 Everything Is Going to Be OK 2023 Lakiko Lakiko Tobogan 4:14 What To Do, How To Live? 2023 The Wood Demons The Wood Demons Big Game Fishing 5:04 Angels of Peckham Rye 2020 Rachel Flowers Rachel Flowers My World 6:47 Single 2022 Sanderson Dominic Sanderson Like Shards of Glass Falling Through My Fingers 19:33 Impermanence 2023 Honeypaw1 Honeypaw Kolme kakea 2:41 Kolme käkeä 2023 Ensemble Nashville Ambient Ensemble Refraction 4:55 Light and Space 2023 Marekvest Marekvist Fanden 7:20 Varde 2023 Chaos and the Cosmos Chaos and The Cosmos The Singularity 5:36 Our Song 2023 Daniel Gillette 0:39 Daniel Gillett Homes 3:22 Moorland 2017 Secret Sky Secret Sky Fear a Bhata 7:04 Opium 2023 GoGo Penguin “Everything Is Going To Be OK” Concentrating mostly in minimal classical, experimental and jazz, Gogo Penguin are simply superb musicians. Utilizing piano, bass and drums, this trio masterfully creates heavenly ambient sonic textures. Even with a recent member shakeup, these three bring certain cohesion to their work, which examines their personal recent dark times and concludes that everything, indeed, will be OK. Favourite Track: (4:45) Everything Is Going To Be OK What To Do, How To Live? by Lakiko favorite track Tobogan Although Bosnian artist, Lakiko, has released several EPs, this is her first full-length outing. She is a cellist who utilizes looping and sings with an incredibly clear voice, in a Bosnian technique called, “Sevdalinka.” The music is haunting, ominous, and often dissonant, with dashes of electronica. Altogether enchanting. Angels Of Peckham Rye (album) by The Wood Demons favorite track Big Game Fishing This band creates lush landscapes with all of the usual instruments of a rock band, plus electric violin.The music is hard to categorize, there are elements of post-rock, psych and folk, culminating in a mostly phantasmagoric dip into deep waters.The vocals suit the material perfectly, which, while often atmospheric and eerie, does verge into heavy territory, and they do that well. However, I feel they shine when they evoke the ethereal.