Marissa Nadler & Faces on Film - Photos & Review from Littlefield, Brooklyn, NY 7-31-11

Faces on Film - Manitoba (Acoustic) by mikefiore333

Faces on Film (which is the musical alias of multi-instrumentalist Mike Fiore) opened the show for Marissa Nadler at Littlefield. I wasn't that familiar with Faces on Film's music prior to listening to Mike's acoustic set but his rich, emotive voice reminded me of Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters) or Ours' Jimmy Gnecco. One of the standout tracks from his set was "Manitoba" and a full-band version of this tracks has been added to the iTunes reissue of Faces on Film's second disc, Some Weather.





Marissa Nadler started her set by reaching into her back catalogue for the songs "Hyacinth" and "Salutations in the Dark" before coming coming back to the present with "Little King" (from the new self-titled disc). Marissa switched between a 6- and 12-string acoustic but it was her beautiful, haunting voice that was the focal point of each song.





Mike Fiore returned to the stage midway through Marissa's set to play guitar and add backing vocals which gave Marissa a chance to free herself from her guitar. Some of the standout tracks from the second-half of the set were "The Sun Always Reminds Me of You" and "In Your Lair, Bear" (both from the new self-titled disc) and a solo cover of Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat".







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Langhorne Slim Plays CD Release Show at Mercury Lounge on Wednesday, April 30th

Langhorne Slim's new CD, a self-titled release on Kemado Records, comes out tomorrow. Langorne got caught up in the whole V2 Records mess so this new CD is his first since his 2006 EP, "Engine".

The new tracks sound like some of the best work that Langhorne has done to date. There are three tracks from this release streaming on Langhorne's MySpace page. Langorne said "This collection of songs represents our most comfortable, cohesive and soul-shaking music to date...Some [songs] came out of the blue, others took some sweat but if the feeling’s there, then you’ve got something and it don’t make a damn difference how it happened. I hope that you feel it."

Langhorne made his network TV debut last month on the David Letterman show and played "Restless" from the forthcoming CD.



Wednesday's show at the Mercury Lounge is sold out but Langhorne is playing a headlining show at Music Hall of Williamsburg on May 31st.