NATALIE JANE HILL - Hopeful Woman LP IDM folk practices old and new

folk practices old and new

The lyrics and music represent the times - lonesome country laments like “Nafwaya Fwaya” and “Fosta Kayi” drift along the railways to urban centers and copper mines

and subtle electronics into a sonic tapestry that is as challenging as it is rewarding

and Sam Lavine on drums

and always a voice cutting through the fog

NATALIE JANE HILL - Hopeful Woman LP IDM folk practices old and newNatalie Jane Hills new record, Hopeful Woman, is composed of slender songs, life sized, in which humans endeavor to reconcile themselves to wildernesses and cities; rearrange their rooms and open windows to be closer to the world outside and its choruses of frogs and crickets; attempt and fail to reach one another across a kitchen table; weather natural disaster. If something we might deign to call self discovery emerges over the course of these