Tonight on Echoes (01/06/2012) I’ll be interviewing an exciting new singer-songwriter, Johanna Cranitch who records as Johanna & the Dusty Floor. When I heard her new album, Northern Lights, I was immediately enticed by this Australian born singer, who first reminded me of Kate Bush. She even covers Bush’s “Cloudbusting.” But the more I listen, the less I hear Bush and the more I hear an artist with a unique and personal voice, making music full of surprising melodic turns, with idiosyncratic instrumentation that includes zithers, xylophones and Omnichords, and deeply effecting voice. Check out a couple of her videos.
This is a charming, kind of unplugged version of “Heavy Heart.”
http://youtu.be/4yWqnkuyNnM
Here’s a produced video of “Witch Shoes.”
And you might as well hear her understated take on Kate Bush’s Cloudbusting.”
John Diliberto ((( echoes )))
Great echos fan, but still discovering artists. really dig joanna. amazing talent. As amateur song writer, makes my laugh when artists make music after breakups. Usually gets good stuff. . Therapy for me. Not quite worth the pain, but at least you can get something. I try to tell anyone that got dumped to get creative and make stuff. Therapy and maybe a good song, poem, painting..