Karima Walker // demos TAPE

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Indie pop in Chicago, USA ~ Indie folk label Original Record has arrived in large quantities.

This work is a cassette released by Karima Walker, a singer-songwriter in Arizona, in April 2022, limited to 4 pieces.

Includes 8 collage songs from a simple bedroom folk with acoustic guitar and voice as the main sources. DL code included.

Labels and other worksClick here for more information. ///Click here to see more Orindal Records releases available at Tobira.

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Edition of 150. 8 tracks, 22 minutes.

Orindal Records:

"On demos, Tucson, AZ singer, songwriter & sound designer Karima Walker shares early, home-recorded versions of songs from her critically acclaimed 2021 folk / ambient album Waking the Dreaming Body, alongside illuminating sketches and ambient pieces. The demo versions of" Softer, ”“ Window I ”and“ Reconstellated ”feature alternate lyrics and intimate acoustic arrangements that highlight the power of Walker's voice and musicianship, while ambient pieces like“ thunder interlude ”and“ earth into air ”plumb deeper depths of tension.”

Artist statement:

"I first notice how vulnerable it feels, to hear certain lyrics sticking out, different from the words that finally stuck. But I do like returning to these songs, remembering why words distinguished and settled as the songs took shape, and remembering that so many of these did not appear as immediately apparent and whole.

They're a lot more like my everyday life, revealing itself in time, while I try to let things register in my body ... Then I go back in and push things around and figure out what I'm doing… Others are knit together from other projects, pieces and fragments that inspired the emotional timbre of the record, and in some cases were woven directly into it. Some here did appear complete and whole, but I either forgot about them, lost them or saw them as outliers. Either way, I like how the pieces hang together as a simpler account of the time from which the record finally came, and I hope you do too. ”

Artist: Karima Walker

Label: Orindal Records

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Indie pop in Chicago, USA ~ Indie folk label Original Record has arrived in large quantities.

This work is a cassette released by Karima Walker, a singer-songwriter in Arizona, in April 2022, limited to 4 pieces.

Includes 8 collage songs from a simple bedroom folk with acoustic guitar and voice as the main sources. DL code included.

Labels and other worksClick here for more information. ///Click here to see more Orindal Records releases available at Tobira.

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Edition of 150. 8 tracks, 22 minutes.

Orindal Records:

Artist statement:

Artist: Karima Walker

Label: Orindal Records

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Rather, Driving’s nine tracks evince a genuine, and mature searching-ness, both sonically and lyrically. The ending refrain of “Own” serves like something close to a thesis— “Letting go \/\/ isn’t a concept \/\/ it’s an action.” In an attempt to beat back ego, hyper-cogitation, language itself, Wilkes arrives at an axiom that feels so true and familiar, you’d swear you’d heard it one hundred times before.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eDriving’s final third is, fittingly, its most emotive and cathartic. Tracks seven and eight, “Again, Again” and “And Again,” form a diptych, joined most obviously by the jangling, recursive grooves of guitarist Daryl Johns. Wilkes is said to have encouraged Johns to go “full Lindsey [Buckingham]” (clearly a welcome and resonant prompt), but one also catches stray Knopfler vibes, some intermittent Fripp, and (perhaps more-so in tone than technique) the spirit of DIY prophet and jangling man himself, Martin Newell (the Cleaners from Venus). Wilkes has stated that he finds joy in creating musical environments suitable to the contribution and flourishing of his favorite musicians. Throughout Driving, and in these two tracks especially, he has more than succeeded.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe record closes with the titular track: a story-song that, according to Wilkes, poured out of him (melody, composition, and lyrics) in a single sitting. 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width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=772514260\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e------------------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAvailable on 12\" black vinyl or cassette in norelco case. \u003cbr\u003eLP edition of 500 \/ Cassette edition of 150. Includes DL code.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFolk Home\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHannah Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOwn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKnows\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConga\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAgain, Again\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnd Again\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDriving\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e++\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eText by \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003eEmmett Shoemaker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e via the artist\/label : \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Driving is Sam Wilkes’ Indie Rock record. Out October 6th, 2023, it is the first release on Wilkes Records, an imprint borne of the artist’s emergent need to self-release. The songs presented here exist comfortably within the ever-expanding Wilkesian cosmos, characterized as they are by virtuosity, torqued experimentalism, and collaboration with a range of talented musicians. But Driving’s influences, its sincerity, and its allegiance to a certain pop sensibility reflects a departure for an artist who has primarily staked his claim within the experimental jazz idiom.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eTake the first track, “Folk Home,” which inaugurates the album’s fecundity—a bright, green, humid, summer feel. A swirling, freakout coda of reversed vocals gives way, in no short order, to a caterwaul of flute work that conjures Van Morrison’s (in)famous Astral Weeks sessions. Standing beside Morrison, the usual suspects are all present, if somewhat abstractedly. Dylan, The Dead, Joni, the Fab Four. Wilkes has developed a reputation as an experimental jazz luminary, but his deep affinity for the pop\/rock\/folk idiom of the latter twentieth century rings clear throughout Driving. More so than any Wilkes release to date, Driving is a collection guided by and dedicated to the man’s attention to\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e songcraft.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWritten and recorded during a period of rain-damage induced renter’s itinerance (and the attendant desire to produce a kind of therapeutic, self-soothing, home-feeling music), Driving loosely charts the trajectory\/experience of “a protagonist,” both Wilkes and not, “who has figured out how to live an enlightened and fulfilled life, but is unable to do so because he thinks about it too much.” This friction is surely relatable — a symptom of our compulsively self-aware present. But Wilkes avoids the obvious pitfalls of public hand-wringing. Rather, Driving’s nine tracks evince a genuine, and mature searching-ness, both sonically and lyrically. The ending refrain of “Own” serves like something close to a thesis— “Letting go \/\/ isn’t a concept \/\/ it’s an action.” In an attempt to beat back ego, hyper-cogitation, language itself, Wilkes arrives at an axiom that feels so true and familiar, you’d swear you’d heard it one hundred times before.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eDriving’s final third is, fittingly, its most emotive and cathartic. Tracks seven and eight, “Again, Again” and “And Again,” form a diptych, joined most obviously by the jangling, recursive grooves of guitarist Daryl Johns. Wilkes is said to have encouraged Johns to go “full Lindsey [Buckingham]” (clearly a welcome and resonant prompt), but one also catches stray Knopfler vibes, some intermittent Fripp, and (perhaps more-so in tone than technique) the spirit of DIY prophet and jangling man himself, Martin Newell (the Cleaners from Venus). Wilkes has stated that he finds joy in creating musical environments suitable to the contribution and flourishing of his favorite musicians. Throughout Driving, and in these two tracks especially, he has more than succeeded.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe record closes with the titular track: a story-song that, according to Wilkes, poured out of him (melody, composition, and lyrics) in a single sitting. The tale is told plainly, bravely, starkly; a mistake was made, regrets have been had, and all is wrapped up in the recollection of a deeply felt adolescent heartsickness—a time when the narrator was first afire with music and automotive freedom. The song captures the moment when meaning inexplicably falls into place, when a long-nagging memory suddenly assumes narrative form, and the subsequent sense of lightness and unburdening. It is fitting that Driving, a record conceived as a form of self-therapy, should culminate with a sense of humble revelation. That Wilkes is plainly eager to share the vulnerable fruits of this labor constitutes Driving’s joyful offering.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Sam Wilkes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Wilkes Records\u003c\/p\u003e"}