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Last Updated: 10/7/2009

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Status: Single
City: Åkersberga/Stockholm
Country: SE
Signup Date: 5/23/2007
Sunday, February 08, 2009 

Here are som reviews of my single "whisperers, wavers, hunters and sailors". Sent omsider... :)


 


Diskant


http://www.diskant.net/blog/2008/06/30/lisa-o-piu-%e2%80%93-whisperers-wavers-hunters-and-sailors-single-autumn-ferment-records/



Ah, it's nice to receive vinyl once in a while. This one comes from a new label that goes by the quietly sinister name of Autumn Ferment Records - Lisa O Piu marks their first release.

Lisa Issaksson is a Swedish singer/songwriter and with her band are known collectively as Lisa O Piu – the Swedish 'piu' roughly translating as 'and more' according to the press release. This release gives us two songs which both master the plain and darkly beautiful niche in the acoustic/folk genre. 'Whisperers, Wavers, Hunters and Sailors' is a brooding and melodious tune with just enough gleams of light in a dark and dense couple of minutes. The second track 'Equatorial Changes' is crammed full of delicate harmonies, gorgeous guitar picking and little else – the lily left ungilded in all its rough charm.

The general production (or lack of) is what makes this release really shine: stark and rugged, and with an unbeatably warm tone that you can only get from recording it on your 4-track as Lisa did. Good stuff; some great cover art designed by Lisa herself, and I look forward to any more Autumn Ferment releases. 

Pascal Ansell (Diskant)


 

Psyche Van Het Folk(Acid folk Review 24)



Autumn Ferment Rec.Lisa O Piu -single- (S,2008)*****


When I heard Lisa's songs back on the net I didn't immediately remember or realize if these were These Trails songs or another variation I had heard before. Arrangements are done by acoustic guitar pickings, flying-from-root-to-root-bird alike singing evolutions, dual vocals and bits of some additional 'second voice' electric guitar (firs track) or flute improvisation (second track). It's difficult for me to describe those emotionally gifted beauties. These Trails were unique as they showed an essential heart-driven happy feeling from Hawaii, Lisa from Sweden carries something of a voice connected with a heart for nature, human gentleness and its voice, melody and arrangements making with it such wished for conditions. These 2 tracks finally made it on vinyl, a 500 numbered copies single (mine is nr.489 so be quick!). Highly recommended.


 


Gerald Van Waes(Psyche Van Het Folk)


 


Index 7



Sweden is some kind of weird magical place where everyone has super cheap, nicely designed furniture in their homes, the best chocolate, bank accounts and they used to see the Shout Out Louds and Peter Bjorn and John down the street. It's more than just a coincidence that this area of the world has resulted in the proliferation of bands like these. And from all across the musical spectrum, Love is All, Dungen, I'm from Barcelona... all from an entire country's population way smaller than New York City. Is it the government funding or the pervasive DIY spirit from this homogeneous gene pool.
The only comparison I can come up with as a frame of reference for Lisa O Piu is Joanna Newsome, not vocally in any way, but she shares the same kind of fairy tale folk, full of that poetic imagery and mythology.
She has this wavering vibrato voice, that seems like it's the kind of thing you're born with, or just inherently know how to sing, and can't be trained. It sounds effortless and fits right into the whole otherworldly feel.

Lisa O Piu grew up outside of Stockholm, Sweden and it sounds like she was a little obsessed with horses, riding...drawing them, as evident by the sleeve art on her latest single on Autumn Ferment Records. She primarily writes with acoustic guitar and keeps the arrangements pretty sparse and on 'Wavers, Whisperers...' Lisa changes the finger picking tempo every measure, keeping the lyric constantly surprising if not a little disorienting, any kind of chorus is nonexistent. Electric guitars and layers of vocals slowly work their way into this epic ballad of the sea, it's travelers and creatures.
Jason (Index 7)
Norman Records
http://www.normanrecords.com/records/100205
This record left our Brett feeling happy.
I'm heralding the birth of the environment-folk movement with this 7" from Lisa O Piu, I'm sure the NME'll be latching on to that one before too long. The aforementioned veggie inks certainly add to the pastoral feel of the artwork, it's very.. green. But quite nice! They'll be packaging records in rice paper so you can disintegrate it for the most minimal effect on our itty bitty planet soon, mark my words. I was fully prepared to write that this was just hippy rubbish on principle but I'm actually quite keen on it, she's got a lovely voice and the very minimal acoustic backing serves it well. My brain's usually out of female folk singers after Vashti Bunyan and she's mentioned in the press blurb so I can't be copying my homework, Sharon Krauss is another shout from the office. Limited to 500 and hand numbered!
Brett (Norman Records)


a newly put together imprint based in Scotland or more precisely Moray who promise to 'records from deep within our musical fermenting pot with the main emphasis on alternative, experimental folk and minimal electronica' and bugger me if they don't you wait and see especially since they are already up and running with their inaugural courtesy of the diminutive Lisa O Piu. Lisa is better known to residents of the Akerberga district of Stockholm as Lisa Isaksson - a delicate songstress whose 'whispers wavers hunters sailors' has had us all captivated offering as it does a moment of serene shy eyed loveliness that enchants and evokes a willowy forest glade hue as the pixie-ish rustics swirl gently in hop, skip and jump formations eliciting an alluring spell weaving demeanour that at times is brushed ever so softly by the spectre of Karen Dalton. If we didn't know better once we get to nab our copy we'll be filing it lovingly next to that gem like Lucie Wren outing for Sacred Harp Library. Limited to just 500 7 inch copies all hand numbered. Those wanting to hear a little more of Ms Isaksson are advised to hook up to her site at www. myspace. com/lisaolillportan and sample the timid and tender ghostly delights of 'forest echo dark'. Back with Autumn Ferment - in addition to the Lisa O PIU cut you'll also get to be treated by both James Reid and Flake Brown. Mr Reid also a resident of Moray has to date cut one full length in the shape of 'like a buzzard chased by crows' which to much tireless grumbling we missed as well as appearing on the excellent 'John Barleycorn Reborn' compilation a copy of which we have, and have had for ages now - a review we'll have to sort out in the next few days. Anyhow Mr Reid stumps up 'she waits by the shore' - a fragile and mellowing fusion of subtle electronics and rustic ambles that appears to be descended from the mayday pageantry of Wicker Man land and gently coaxed and distilled into a free spirited rural malt - quite excellent if you ask me. Flake Brown on the other hand braids his song craft in something of the traditional, 'february's bones' is a curious blend of late 60's Cambridge folk, delta blues via John Fahey and shanty folk blues the type of which so deftly dispatched with ease by Gavin Baler and his dad under the pseudonym the Baker Boys.don't know about you but Autumn Ferment could in time shape up to be the new Fence Collective.
The Sunday Experience www.myspace.com/thesundayexperience
2:07 PM
 
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