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Folk-rock.

Old Kind of Magic, the fifth longplayer from Native Harrow, arrives two years into their new life in Sussex, England. It is in this new place that they have self-produced a work that is simultaneously their most sweepingly expansive and delicately intimate album to date. The songs contained herein move dramatically from the opening field recording of the Brighton seaside, to Laurel Canyon-esque folk-rock, piano and rhodes tinged soul-jazz balladry, oud and harpsichord driven 60s technicolour psychedelia, dense modernistic string quartet writing, and wide-as-the-western skies panoramic pedal steel with sepia-toned 12-string.

Native Harrow is primarily Stephen Harms and Devin Tuel, who emigrated together from Pennsylvania to the U.K. in 2021. They produced their fifth album, ‘Some Old Kind of Magic’ in Brighton, where they landed, and in rural Sussex, where they settled.  This is an enchanted collection of songs that reprises 60’s sounds and sensibilities in a delightfully original way.  The big issues of that countercultural era (and any time) – love, freedom, identity – are presented in poetic lyrics sung by Tuel.  Her voice is as compelling as any voices of that time including Mitchell, Collins and Ronstadt. Tuel sings and plays along with multi-instrumentalist Harms and long-time collaborator, Alex Hall, on percussion, along other friends. Clearly, this album is a collective effort.

This is a beautiful album to savour, slowly, one song at a time.

Tracks:
01. Native Harrow - Song for Joan
02. Old Kind of Magic
03. Heart of Love
04. I Was Told
05. Used to Be Free
06. As It Goes
07. Magic Eye
08. I Remember
09. Long Long Road
10. Find a Reason

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__cDRX2t7Ow