Duets

Arizona is the New Granada Records debut album from Tracy Shedd, which was released earlier this week (November 12). The album is described as an acoustic duet with her husband James Tritten.



You can get a taste of the ‘slowcore songtress’ style with “Broken Arrows” via soundcloud.com.






Also on the album are two covers, The Magnetic Fields’ “Candy” and Sonic Youth’s “Teenage Riot”.



Tour dates:

BONUS: We previously interviewed Tracy Shedd on Episode #27.

Active Child (real name Pat Grossi) just released some remixes off their EP Rapor, the remixed track features Mikky Ekko, who duets with Grossi in dueling falsettos…



Listen to the remix on Soundcloud;






The EP is the first release since his critically acclaimed full length debut, You Are All I See, which we covered his Minneapolis show when he went on tour in support of it. Rapor came out last month (October 22) via Vagrant Records, and in support of the EP, Active Child is currently on tour.



Active Child returns to Minneapolis next week:

Sweet Gum Tree is the solo project of French musician Arno Sojo, who previously ‘cut his teeth’ as members of various bands for over ten years, including band leader of Sojo Glider.



Sojo is putting the final touches on his forthcoming debut album The Snakes You Charm & The Wolves You Tame album as Sweet Gum Tree. The album will feature a duet with Isobel Campbell (Belle & Sebastian) for the track “Bird Of Passage”. Duets with female icons are nothing new to Sojo, who previously teamed up with French popstar Buzy.



Making out the rest of the band will be drummer Earl Harvin (Tindersticks) and Marty Willson-Piper (The Church), who will join Sojo for his first UK tour this Winter: