"Faira, Sophia Spies' experimental folk project, breaks traditional song structures and challenges the conventional listening experience. The 32-year-old self-taught musician from Cologne creates her unique version of folk with her bold compositions. Faira's songs are about family, vulnerability, and hope - reflecting the trials and tribulations of life. With her soft and somber voice, she sings her way out of the human heaviness of being into a permeable lightness. In June 2024, Faira will release an EP on Papercup Records as the first part of a three-part series."
https://www.papercuprecords.com/artists/faira/
@faira.music
"Annie Bloch’s songs emerge from the urge to comprehend and wrap a passing and complex feeling into a form that can be looked at again and again. If they come out as a story, it’s fragmented - the romantizing fails, and the words don’t rhyme. Her sound is human, raw, and direct, not striving for perfection, but for utopia. Urgently it needs to feel light. Combining acoustic guitars, drums, and clarinets with electric guitars and colorful synthesizers that all weave gently around her warm voice, Annie Bloch creates an atmosphere of soothing comfort. A moment of lightness to gather strength before diving deep again - looking at the next ambivalences in the eye and getting loud where necessary. Despite some dreamy notes, her songs take the stage in the clear, dry daylight. In this way, her EP “Four Trips To The Shop” describes the inner thunder that brews while doing an errand or the sudden rush of nostalgia that overcomes you while ordering a coffee. For the duration of a song, the fleeting feeling becomes concrete."
https://www.papercuprecords.com/artists/annie-bloch/
@annie.bloch
More on Papercup Records HERE!
