IVOS 2: ΚΕΙΜΕΝΑ,ΕΙΚΟΝΕΣ

Alela Diane  is an American indie folk musician whose unconventional melodies and dreamy guitar picking style drew comparisons to the likes of  Devendra Banhart  and  Joanna Newsom  following her 2003 recording debut, Forest Parade. After releasing a pair of hushed, brittle LPs, she started to involve more collaborators to flesh out her sound, culminating with her fourth full-length, the 2011 full-band album  Alela Diane & Wild Divine . A return to more intimate recordings followed, including 2015's  Cold Moon  with  Ryan Francesconi . Diane  was born and raised in Nevada City, California, also the hometown of  Newsom .  Diane 's parents were musicians, and she grew up singing with them and in her school choir. A self-taught guitarist, she released her first album, 2003's Forest Parade, at the age of 20.  Newsom  provided  Diane  with her first public solo gigs. After a short stint with the gr...

Mandolin Orange. Earthy gospel and folk-inflected bluegrass    from this young North Carolina couple.  Mandolin Orange is an Americana/folk duo based out of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.The group was formed in 2009 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and consists of the group's songwriter Andrew Marlin (vocals, mandolin, guitar, banjo) and Emily Frantz (vocals, violin, guitar).  Mandolin Orange – Live at Fraser (Full Set) Mandolin Orange. Earthy gospel and folk-inflected bluegrass in the vein of Gillian Welch from this young North Carolina couple.  Formed in 2009 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina around the talents of singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Marlin and violinist/guitarist Emily Frantz, Mandolin Orange draw from wells both old and new, offering up a heady mix of bluegrass, gospel, folk, country, and pop that invokes the earthy timelessness (and effortless harmonies) of Gillian Welc...

 Gjallarhorn  -World music with roots in the folk music of Finland and Sweden. -Ancient folk music tradition of Scandinavia with medieval ballads, minuets, prayers in runo-metric chanting and ancient Icelandic rímur epics in a modern way .  * * * Gjallarhorn is one of Finland's most exciting young folk groups. Led by David Lillkvist, a long time student of Latin American and West African drumming, the band fuses the folk music of Finland with a global range of influences and instrumentation including the didgeridoo and Australian wood flute. The group, which takes its name from the mythological Nordic term for the forces of light used by Heimdall to fight Regnarok, also features the lead vocals and fiddling of Jenny Williams and the fiddle and mandola playing and vocals of Christopher Ohman. Releasing the hypnotic Ranarop: Call of the Sea Witch in 1998, the band staked their claim as a hypnotic force in Nordic folk revivalism. In 2000, the band came...