What do you call a folk singer/songwriter when Folk Is Dead? Perhaps these boxes are finally being bust open and we can use the term artist so now then Kalle Mattson is an artists. The Ottawa-based singer/songwriter (dang) has an artistic sensibility, he builds to the subject rather than the frame. His latest, long time coming, takes a turn for the electronic and the electronica; possibly folktronica along the lines of KASHKA or maybe the same artist can put out Harvest and Trans and still be Neil Young, whatever. Whatever Kalle Mattson is doing it is always worth a listen. Here's the track, "Broken In Two" in a familiar frame and in its actual album version, a track broken in two so speak.
Photo by Colin Medley
