In Notes From Left of the Dial this week, Nooga.com spends time with new music from R. Finn, Bummerville, Forest Bees and Jeremy Bass. What have you been listening to lately?
R. Finn, “Quiet House”
The influence and friendship of legendary musician Levon Helm is a powerful thing. And for folk singer-songwriter R. Finn (born as Chris Rondinella), a nervous phone call to Helm some years ago created a connection where Finn was able to bring recording equipment to Helm’s empty studio in Woodstock, New York, and spend time working on the house concert jam sessions that Helm regularly led. After a couple of years producing these impromptu shows, Finn moved back to Los Angeles, created a personal studio called The Heritage Recording Co. and began work on his own material. The ensuing sessions yielded the Americana-tinged record “Collecting Trip,” due out Jan. 19.
On his new single, “Quiet House,” Finn radiates a bucolic intimacy, a warmth that extends outward from the lingering syllables of each line to the comforting melodies that cling to your ears. Acoustic guitars and a gently shuffling percussive gait bend your attention to the effortless way he creates detailed folk worlds from a host of familiar sounds. There’s a definite twang and tangible ache in each moment of the song. The persuasive rustic rhythms latch on to your senses and form a nice little folk cocoon inside your head, a perfect nesting spot for Finn’s compelling use of mandolin and pedal steel shivers. Blending Americana and ancestral folk tendencies, he comes away with a sound both reverential and casually ambitious.
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