Author: Ted

  • Marked Map: A Dandelion Radio Session

    Marked Map: A Dandelion Radio Session

    Four new tracks produced for an exclusive session on Mark Whitby’s January 2017 show on Dandelion Radio: dandelionradio.com

     

     

  • New Exclusive Session on Dandelion Radio

    Throughout the month of January 2017, Mark Whitby will be featuring four new songs in an exclusive session for Dandelion Radio!

    Check the Dandelion Radio broadcast schedule to see when his show will be streaming. (Schedule is in UK time, so be sure to convert to your own time zone!)

    The session will be available as a pay-what-you-want download on Bandcamp in February 2017 here:

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  • Mark Whitby reviews Ghost in the Museum

    From Mark Whitby’s review of Ghost in the Museum:

    …in Kloba’s hands, ancient pre-existing musical notes are dragged into the world and twisted into new, enticing shapes.  ‘The answer is already in your mind’ we’re reminded in ‘A Thousand Pretty Strings’, one of the album’s many highlights.

    Read the rest on Unwashed Territories.

  • Ghost in the Museum out now!

    Ghost in the Museum is available now on BandcampCD BabyAmazon mp3, iTunes and Spotify. Others will follow soon.

    For a limited time you can download the single “Ancient Art” free on Bandcamp!

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  • Oliver Arditi reviews Dandelion Exclusives

    From Oliver Arditi’s review of Dandelion Exclusives:

    This is a work of pronounced creative maturity, turning our attention to Kloba’s quizzical observations with a deft, un-manipulative touch, and employing the simple resources of guitar pop with singular power.

    Read the rest…

  • Dandelion Exclusives

    Dandelion Exclusives

    These tracks were originally produced for Mark Whitby’s July 2014 show on Dandelion Radio.

  • Dandelion Exclusives Now Available on Bandcamp

    Three new tracks, produced for Mark Whitby’s July 2014 show on Dandelion Radio are now available free on Bandcamp.

    Please download and enjoy!

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  • Dandelion Exclusives

    Throughout the month of July, Mark Whitby’s show on Dandelion Radio featured three exclusive tracks: “His Jacket”, “Rescue” and “Foolosopher”. You can’t hear them anywhere else. The show is archived on Mixcloud:[mixcloud]http://www.mixcloud.com/DandelionRadio/mark-whitby-201407/[/mixcloud]

  • KZSU: It Is All an Illusion

    From the KZSU (Stanford University) review of It Is All an Illusion:

    Outsider new age avant-pop-rock. Jittery jarring electric guitar, female vocal stylings uncannily reminiscent of Gordon Gano. From the press sheet, you can expect sarcasm, verbal metaphors, and increased emphasis on the instrumental music, but with Kloba’s trademark hopefulness shining through all of this. As a non-musician I’m not sure if the songs are remarkably simple or atheoretical; give it a play and decide for yourself.

    Read the rest.

  • Festive 50

    Listeners of Dandelion Radio voted my song “I Saw the Stars” into #14 of the Festive 50 for 2013!

  • Oliver Arditi: It Is All An Illusion

    From Oliver Arditi‘s review of It Is All An Illusion:

    She just has some stuff she really wants to share, and her creative practice is driven by the important insight that the content should shape the form, and not vice versa. The measure of this music’s quality is its outstanding effectiveness as an act of communication; by conventional standards it sounds rhythmically tentative, melodically half-formed, its phrases more like conversation than the shapely rhetorical figures of mainstream songwriting. But sticking to the shapes and colours of established formula tends to restrict the meanings of the songs to those that formula was developed to convey, and although many composers have found ways to write around those tendencies, to great effect in many cases, It Is All An Illusion takes a more direct approach; Kloba confronts her meanings head on, and makes a music of her own experience, on her own terms.

    Read the rest…