Hear the Best New Folk Music with Fresh Cuts Friday
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Arny Margret, “I Miss You, I Do”
Iceland’s Arny Margret returns with her second album,I Miss You, I Do (out March 7). Produced by Josh Kaufman, the title track ‘I Miss You, I Do’ was recorded with Kaufman in Kingston, New York and was written the night before Arny met him. “I wanted to have a good song to take with me, so I wrote it in my pajamas in the Airbnb I was staying at before I went to sleep. I think it’s become the song I’m most fond of on the album.”
Beirut frontman Zach Condon wrote “Caspian Tiger” as part of the soundtrack for the Swedish contemporary circus company Kompani Giraff’s international touring production, A Study of Losses. Condon says of the track: “I found Kompani Giraff’s project so enticing, and writing something for acrobats to perform to [was so] enjoyable.”
The Virginia songwriter/instrumentalist/
As we slowly get glimpses of Rose Cousins’ upcoming album Conditions Of Love – Vol 1, (out March 14), she knocks us a good one for the heart with “Denouement.” “What are we looking for from love, anyway?” says Cousins. “We want to show and tell, to be seen, understood, and held. We want expansion, a new version of love, and at the same time, safety. We want to be loved for who we are, yet often, we don’t even know the answer to that question. But longing and belonging spur us to keep trying romantic love. We willingly dive in with someone brand new, a stranger actually, without ever knowing how the story will end.”
