nalle

New blog blog showcasing Wilder Shores of Love album artwork and art edition LPs with links to online shop at Welcome Home gallery:



http://www.wilder-shores-of-love.blogspot.com/



Nalle is the trio of Hanna Tuulikki, Aby Vulliamy and Chris Hladowski. Performing since 2004, the group have toured extensively in Europe and the United States, drawing audiences into their intimate sound world. Spearheaded by Tuulikki's expressive vocals and straight-from-the-heart song craft, the music is underpinned by intuitive group interplay on an array of instruments from the four corners of the globe, from bouzouki and viola to Finnish kantele and mouth harps.
In 2006 Nalle released their debut album By Chance Upon Waking (Pickled Egg records). In a Foxy Digitalis review it states "…the chemistry between the three is instantly obvious. Acoustic arrangements that stir like lost children late at night provide the perfect palette for Tuulikki to weave pure magic…. As a listener, you feel as overwhelmed as Nalle sounds. It's beautiful." Hanna's enthralling multi-octave vocal range and singular delivery brought comparisons to other women vocalists who have explored the limits of the voice within traditional musical conventions, but as the Wire noted, Nalle's "clear individuality banishes lazy comparisons to others operative in this area of folk-inflected new music." Their second album The Sirens Wave (Locust Music) from 2008 "is a considerably more meditative and meticulous recording" as the wire notes "a stunning conglomeration of East European and traditional Scottish nuances which fold into each other, alternately pushing then subsiding, flowing like rolling waves".
In spring 2010, they release their third studio album entitled "Wilder Shores Of Love" with Alt.Vinyl, produced with regular collaborator John Cavanagh. It is perhaps the most directly personal statement the band have committed to tape - an attempt at laying down bare bones of experience, endeavouring to transform the heavy lead of human emotions into moments of golden insight. Using symbolic language, recurring motifs, and the odd sprinkling of good old rock and roll, the songs weave strong narrative tapestries about love lost and found, inner mindscapes and outer landscapes, getting lost on the journey, and finding understanding.
Nalle is in many ways inseparable from Hanna's work as a visual artist, something that she will be exploring further with "Wilder Shores Of Love" - named after the painting by Cy Twombly and inspired by the Greek myth of Hero and Leander. To celebrate the release of Wilder Shores of Love, Welcome Home gallery in Glasgow will exhibit the original drawings that make up the album artwork. (11th - 31st July) A small edition of deluxe 180g LPs with hand drawn and screen-printed covers will also be on display alongside the CD and LP releases.
http://www.wlecomehomestore.co.uk
Nalle will be touring the UK in July 2010, along with the most recent addition to the group – Aby's baby daughter Elsa.
Members of the group also play with The One Ensemble, A Hawk And A Hacksaw, The Family Elan, and The National Jazz Trio of Scotland.
Discography:
Wilder Shores of Love (alt vinyl) 2010
The Sirens Wave (Locust) 2008
Live cdr (Secret Eye) 2008
By Chance Upon Waking (Pickled Egg) 2006
For reviews of past albums please see blog above.
You can listen the Nalle live at the VPRO Dwars festival, Amsterdam, by visiting the following link:
http://www.vpro.nl/programma/dwars/artikelen/34267594/



and in Paris at this link:
http://www.radiowne.org/Nalle



This is a video of nalle playing two songs from the sirens wave album, CCA, glasgow, end of 2007. Video by harry from harmonic rooms: