An interesting one for #MusicWomenWednesday - sometimes as I'm watching TV, I use Shazam to take note of a song so I can find it later.
Isobel Waller-Bridge is a modern classical composer for TV and movies, and her cool song "Bloom" was in whatever I was watching. That led me to her whole 2015 EP, 'Music for Strings'.
I'm not a fan of your older regular classical type stuff. But THIS? THIS is damn good.
My artist this week is Marika Louise Hackman (born 17 February 1992) is an English vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter.
Hackman has released a mini-album, That Iron Taste (2013), and four full-length albums: We Slept at Last (2015); I'm Not Your Man (2017); Any Human Friend (2019) and Covers (2020). She has also released four EPs: Free Covers (2012), Sugar Blind (2013), Deaf Heat (2014), and Wonderland (2016).
In 2023, Marika Hackman released a new song called "No Caffeine".[1] The track is taken from the album Big Sigh, released on 12 January 2024, which was her first studio album in five years.
Simone Simons from Epica is releasing a solo album on August 23, the music video for the track Aeterna (music written by Arjen Lucassen) was released yesterday. How perfect for today, as it's @Kitty's #MittwochMetalMix and @loewe's #MusicWomenWednesday 🥰
A tender and powerful song about the innocence of childhood and the loss of a parent. The production stands up so well, with layers of strings over a rock band supporting the expression of her amazing voice.
In the 1970s and 1980s she produced a string of brilliant albums, with songs steeped in love, sexuality, nostalgia, childhood, experience, regret and growing older.
A year ago I knew nothing about her. RYM tagged her as "pop" (among others) yet... she was in the program for Wacken '23! Whatever she would make, I could not miss it. If she was in Wacken, she must be worth of it. And oh my she was.
And she is releasing a new album in a month and I am curious to see what she will come up with. For now, a new single.
Some of my favorite Alison Krauss songs, listed below. 💜
"On November 21, 2019, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in September 2021"