Darci Phenix [EP release] / Ezza Rose / Larsen Gardens

https://darciphenix.com/ Darci Phenix is a Portland, OR based multi-disciplinary artist. Inspired by the folk tradition, her music is characterized by incisive lyrics and acoustic instrumentation (harp, guitar) while her textile work aims to connect people with the natural world. The Portland Mercury has described her music as “sun-dappled, self reflective and streaked with memories and melancholy, recalling the gentle, inviting, and introspective folk of artists like Kate Wolf, Adrianne Lenker and Florist. https://ezzarose.bandcamp.com/track/petrichor “The progression from folk to something more closely resembling rock has been organic and fluid like the rest of her history, but she is not without a significant amount of stubborn drive. This latest change is just another indicator that Rose is, above all, a consummate musician.” – Anchorage Press https://larsengardens.bandcamp.com/ “A rose is a rose is a rose,” says G. Stein. Larsen Gardens, aka Seattle-based songstress Sarah Edmonds, delivers an intimate and deeply personal experience through the wanderings of voice and nylon-stringed guitar. Inspired by eternal aesthetic longing and the archetypal quest to uncover the essence of the thing, we are asked to witness how one might go about revealing just below the layers of the bud of the flower waiting to bloom. Melancholic layers of folk-driven electric and acoustic guitar and cool vocals reminiscent of ‘50s era jazz stylings remind the loud to listen and give voice to softer dreams. Yet the sounds are a far cry from American ‘50s cultural sentiment, and instead reveal a longing for feminine independence. Where worlds of softness are often distorted to shrivel in sultry obedience, a new voice has lassoed feminine intimacy back to where it belongs, as something sincere and much more intrinsically powerful.