Zam Boney - A Day In The Life Ep (Jozi)

"Zam Boney" is Gianluca Tadiello. The guitarist from "The Slashdogs", Vocalist/Guitarist/Song writer of "The Carniwhores" and this is his folk pop acoustic project. It's honest, heart full, sad... yet beautiful and uplifting. A shade of which we have yet to see from this BAD ASS ghoul of a guitarist. An amazing debut release. Something I'm going to be playing on repeat for a good while.

Zam is a good kid. DOWNLOAD HIS SHIT!

Some Notes On The Songs:

 "You'll be okay is about selling your soul to the consumer dream, and in the process losing everything you truly care for (family, friends, dreams and aspirations). losing yourself.

False alarms is about finding love in such a world and being told not choosing that idea means your life will suck, but saying you have a choice and with love you can make it through cause its all that matters.
Jenny Jean is about a close friend of mine who committed suicide cause her BF beat her, the drugs fucked her up, her other friends fucked her over and her parents disowned her.

Ballad Of a Simple Man is about doing drugs when you're younger and how they eventually lead you to ruin, but how that's the only choice many people have after the world tells them they're not worth anything.
And Mother is about dealing as a family with cancer and how at those times you feel alone (everyone dies alone) and religion and science can't save you. All you have left is the now." - Zam

Zam Boney - A Day In The Life Ep

 Download:

- http://www.mediafire.com/?84f1rzdhjkrb6sg

Zam Boney - You'll Be Okay

(Alt/Folk, Folk Pop, Folk Punk, Lo-Fi)

Some Notes On The Recording:

This Ep was recorded on an ipone using the standard voice recorder and no apps. There was no post production/mastering or auto tune. Completely live recordings.

Sloppy Folk ,Sheep And Other Anomalies Split

SLOPPY FOLK

This is a Split Album between South African Folk Punk band Sloppy Folk and American Folk Punk artist Dan Shedd or "Sheep And Other Anomalies". This Split also features Tyler Bisson (TRAGWAG or That Really Awesome Guy With A Guitar) covering the song "Tyler's Favourite Song" which Dan wrote and named after him because it was the song that Tyler liked the most. There is also a Sloppy Folk version of this song on here and a Sheep And Other Anomalies version of Frustration by Sloppy Folk. The recordings are all DIY and Lo-Fi and the record features many new songs and allot of covers of groups like Bad Religion, NOFX, Bright Eyes, Matt Wixson, Daniel Johnston, Blink 182, The Cure, Kimya Dawson, South Africa's Hog Hoggidy Hog, and a collaborative cover of the Old Crow Medicine Show by The Car Boot Vendors & Sloppy Folk recorded live when they were crashing at the commune in Fellside.

One of my personal favourites is the Sheep And Other Anomalies song titled "I Was A Teenage Anarchist Too... Asshole" which is a response to a song written by Against Me!' front man Tom Gabel.

Sheep And Other Anomalies

Download:
- Sloppy Sheep split (Sloppy Folk ,Sheep And Other Anomalies)
> http://www.mediafire.com/?u85c4vcaxeg3wsn

Sheep And Other Anomalies:
is - Dan Shedd
http://www.justplainawfulrecords.com/

TRAGWAG (that really awesome guy with a guitar):
is Tyler Bisson
http://www.tragwag.com/

Sloppy Folk:
is Michael Way
Shaun Richards
Chris Linde
http://www.last.fm/music/Sloppy+Folk

Car Boot Vendors:
is Matt Wilson (Beard)
Justin Grady (Big Bear)
Jonathan Mackie (Skollie!)
Matt Reid (Meaty One)
www.facebook.com/pages/Car-Boot-Vendors/117027951942

Shaun and Josh:
is Josh Brandt
Shaun Richards

 Car Boot Vendors & Sloppy Folk - Wagon Wheel

Sloppy Folk - Download For JPA (Experience SA-folk-Punk)

This was put together for Just Plain Awful Records and is a best of the first 3 recording sessions plus contains 2 new song by Michael and Shaun.

Download:
- Sloppy Folk - Experience SA-folk-Punk (best of the 3 recording sessions + 2 new songs)
> http://www.mediafire.com/?6a7u1l0hypyr47f

All These Wasted Nuts - First Ep Thing (Lo-Fi)

"All these wasted nuts is a side project of Shaun Richards, one of South Africa's most well known folk artists. Having come from bands including contramundi and sloppy folk "All These Wasted Nuts" offers a refreshing new take on folk in South Africa. Mixing punk and anarchaic ideas with personal experiences, "Same Chords. New Songs - Novella" is a 16 minute escape from the world. Easily my most played folk album at the moment, i look forward to hearing more from them!" - Andrew MacPherson

p.s Andrew is being nice because they are friends so don't believe the lies!!!  :p

Download:

All These Wasted Nuts - Same Chords. New Songs
- http://www.mediafire.com/?1321u79jk5jv3qc

Joy Moonflower - Folk from PTA

 

"Pretoria, South Africa (2011 – present)

Joy Moonflower is the moniker of Joy Steyn (born 23 December, 1991 as Jessica Steyn), a self-taught musician residing in Pretoria, South Africa. Joy sings and plays guitar alone but began her foray into musicianship by playing upright bass and singing in an old two-piece blues band.

Her distinct, idiosyncratic singing has garnered comparisons to the likes of Joanna Newsom and Regina Spektor. However, her musical style is pervaded by simple guitar rhythms, unpredictable chord progressions and vocal acrobatics. A large portion of Joy’s songs are improvised and lyrics are usually made up spontaneously - often only the basic chords and chorus lines are thought up beforehand. Thus her shows are usually marked by spontaneity, the musical direction depending a lot on they way she feels at the time.

Feeling estranged and uncomfortable with the system, Joy left school at the early age of 16 to pursue and study a myriad of interests ranging from Fine Arts and Theatrical Make-up to Hairdressing and even Photography. However, in 2011 she finally found her calling and decided to expand her musical talent.

She cites her contemporary influences as Fever Ray, The Books, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Moldy Peaches, Deerhoof and The Cranberries." - Last FM


Download:
Joy Moonflower - Live At Mokha Rock Lounge (2011-06-01)
- http://www.mediafire.com/?e15n2zrwjnp7n7t

 

Subsided - Just For Fun (cpt)

Subsided was a Fast, Lo-Fi, Droney, Out of Time, Pop-Punk/Emo Band from Muizenberg (a beach-side suburb of Cape Town) with Silly Songs about Terpentine, Vitamins, Throwing Rocks at People, Blood Sugar Levels, and Dying slowly horibly and painfully... In short they really sucked and kinda liked it that way.

They recorded about five or six songs during band practices and played one show but fizzled out due to laziness (not mentioning names...cough cough ...Shaun ...cough cough) and someone not having time on weekends due to failing Afrikaans in high school with a term mark of 4%.!!! ...the studying didnt help and to this day when people speak Afrikaans to him he just stares blankly at them or plays with his toes or hair.(not mentioning any names...cough cough ...Shaun ...cough cough)

Download:
Subsided - 2002 Live Demo Song (They lost the other songs) ...tsk tsk tsk
- http://www.mediafire.com/?96fr5i3ciycqpz8

 members:
Kai - Drums, Vocals
Daniel - Bass, Vocals
Shaun - Guitar, Lead Vocals ( ContraMundi / Sloppy Folk )