AP Track Review
Gawain and the Green Knight, aka Alexia Antoniou and Mike O'Malley based out of Brooklyn, New York might be called a folk duo but that would just be a simplification. A more accurate description would be storytellers or maybe conjurers or musical alchemists. Their aesthetic pours in mythologies and mysticism with tones and melodies that have the lilt of Irish and Celtic music as well as hints of maqãm (Arabic) and while Bedouin and North African music has a (more than imagined) connection to Irish music, Antoniou and Malley also layer in lush elements of baroque pop. On their latest offering, Watering Mouth, they (with a bevy of talented musicians) stir in all those influences and, as written by Antoniou and exquisitely arranged by O'Malley, the sounds move between all worlds fluidly. While the song may be birthed on darkly beautiful orchestration and Antoniou plaintive vocals, it quickly chases itself with a big chamber (indie) pop chorus (I thought of Flo and the Machine a bit) but all the while, stabs of Bouzouki and Violin and worldly percussion transports you to other places where other beautiful languages are spoken and sung.
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Robb Donker
Written by Alexia Antoniou
Arranged by Mike O'Malley
Engineered by Nick Rapley
Mastered by Jesse Cannon
Alexia Antoniou - Guitar, Vocals
Mike O'Malley - Bouzouki
Sam Weber - Bass
Nick Rapley - Percussion
Jeremy Aaron - Violin
Lenna Pierce - Cello
Silvana Carranza - Vocals
Savannah Jones - Vocals
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