Friday, 25 January 2013

Young Magic - "Sparkly": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist

Young Magic - "Sparkly": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist Video Clips. Duration : 3.67 Mins.


This is a beautiful story. Three vagabonds travel across the world with no direction home, record music whilst on the road, meet up in New York City, and form a band. Drawing a symbiotic balance from the soundtracks of West Africa, Turkey and beyond, Brainfeeder hip-hop, UK Bass and 60s psychedelic soul, Young Magic is an ethereal exploration into past and future. Appearing at Iceland's Airwaves festival in October 2011, New York's CMJ festival in the same month and touring as main support for Youth Lagoon throughout America and Canada this November, Young Magic's sound is spreading far and wide in the lead up to the release of their debut album Melt on Carpark Records February 14th 2012. Young Magic began with singer and producer Isaac Emmanuel. In early 2010 he quit his world and left his hometown in Australia with all of his belongings packed into a suitcase. He wandered through northern Europe, across the UK, over to New York City then down to Mexico, recording with a microphone, his voice and whatever instruments he would find along the way. There were no plans, no accommodation: instead, couch surfing with friends, always low on coin, always high on the thrill of it all. Whilst living in a small Mexican town called Tepoztlan, Isaac had been in touch with an old friend from Melbourne who was on his own world adventure, Michael Italia. A musician and photographer who was also traveling around the world with little more than a backpack, and some portable recording gear ...

0 comments:

Post a Comment