Tiny Ruins and Correatown session videos

Every week on Amazing Breakfast we invite artists into our teeny tiny studio in London or Newcastle to record live for us. It's all very DIY and the result is often startling. New Zealand singer songwriter Tiny Ruins is just so so good. Check out the video and prepare for your jaw to drop. Angela Corea, or Correatown, has one of those voices that live really knocks your socks off. Thanks to both of them for these:

Tiny Ruins - Me At The Museum, You At The Winter Garden



Correatown - Meridians

Emily Barker live session videos

Emily Barker pops in to Amazing Breakfast

Last week on Amazing Radio Breakfast our Artist of the Week was Australian singer-songwriter Emily Barker. Here she is performing two stunning (and effortless) live tracks from her 2011 album Almanac, Little Deaths and the song that won her a BAFTA for Best TV theme tune for BBC drama Wallander, Nostalgia:

Emily Barker - Nostalgia


Emily Barker - Little Deaths

Latest listening: Seaming and Natureboy

Seaming

Seaming has a massive voice. In fact the British-Chinese singer is operatically trained and boy can she play piano. This track Sodaslow (sipped) is soaring, otherworldly and frankly fantastic, she’s playing some shows live soon with her Mum, that’s how she rolls. At 1'22" it's goosebump central.

Latest listening: The Systematics and Rebecca Jade

Rebecca Jade

Rebecca Jade - Well

Rebecca Jade is a Welsh guitarist and songwriter living in London and, lucky for you, she's just released her debut album The Distaff Muse. This video was made by shouting out to followers on Twitter who were each featured alongside one line of the song. It's charming, DIY and completely suits the slightly shambolic off-kilter vibe of the track. This ain't no straight forward indie rock record neither, Rebecca has teamed up with saxophone, organ, piano, flute... it's all a bit psychedelic and we love it.

The Systematics - It Hurts



A mutual love of rock 'n roll and the films of Russ Meyer bonded Roxie and George when they met at University and The Systematics were born. It Hurts is a joyful blend of moody guitar riffs and a rocking shalala chorus, and another fantastic DIY video. Both this track and the B side Beat Up My Brow are available to download for free here.

Latest listening: Mevrouw Tamara and Icons of Andria

Mevrouw Tamara

Mevrouw Tamara - Leiden



Musician Adam 'Finglebone' Varney often sends tips our way and when he does they're always a winner. Take Mevrouw Tamara for example, guitar picking Amsterdam native who makes beautiful simple folk music singing her in home tongue. The Guardian got in touch after she was featured on The Other Woman and made this fantastic video about her as part of their Sounds of Europe series. It tells you all you need to know really...

Icons of Andria - Icons of Andria



Enter the weird and wonderful sci-fi world of Los Angeles band Icons of Andria. They are a recording project from Rodney Sellars of The Year Zero and Ken Negrete & Fabiola Sanchez of Familiar Trees. Each track is uploaded the Soundcloud, with corresponding original artwork which gets 'coloured' when the track receives over 1000 plays. Read the story here. It's wonderful dreamy, futuristic psych-pop - a very happy discovery!

Amazing Radio listen again with Smoke Fairies

Smoke Fairies

 We kicked off this week’s show with a brand new track from one of our favourite’s The Horn The Hunt from Leeds are an electronic rock duo whose album Depressur Jolie didn’t leave our ipod for many a month. They’re back with a new single Gold and it’s GREAT.

We feature Smoke Fairies in conversation - Kaff and Jess meet me on a hot, sticky day in west London to talk about Blood Speaks their new album and what will happen when they eventually ‘go metal’...

We’ve also got a new single from New Orleans street buskers Hurray for the Riff Raff, frontwoman Alynda Lee Segara has dedicated their new album to her father, a Vietnam vet and he’s pictured on the cover of the album - goosebumps aplenty!

Latest listening Pisces and Forgetful Florence

Pisces - Voodoo

Sarah Negahdari is the guitar-toting frontwoman of LA psych-rockers Happy Hollows who themselves have a new album on the horizon but more on that later. This is her side project, more whimsical folk and psychedelic than what she does with HH, Pisces is what you'd get if you stripped back the noise and chaos of HH with Sarah's voice fore-fronted. Beautiful stuff.