Ryan Francesconi

The music on Cold Moon has a deceptively gentle tone that can mask the powerful lyrics and the slowly developing theme of departure. It is also a truly, remarkable album – we can only hope that Diane and Francesconi continue collaborating and make many more like it.

Alela Diane and Ryan Francesconi release the debut single Shapeless, taken from their forthcoming collaborative album Cold Moon. Listen to it here.

Road to Palios is the latest album from Ryan Francesconi & Mirabai Peart featuring guitar and violin duets which use inspiring minimalist instrumental meanderings to capture your heart with. Magical.

“Before, I was pretty lost. Really unhappy. For years. A lot of times I didn’t want to leave my apartment because I felt too self-conscious”, Matt Bauer once confessed. This may, in part, explain why this Brooklyn-based banjo player sings the way he does, in a gruff whisper that is, more often than not, softer than that of his female vocal contributor Dana Falconberry. It’s a tone so hushed that …