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Artist
Men Diamler
12+ albums
singer-songwriter
about
Men Diamler is a British folk musician. He plays live regularly as a (sometimes guitar-accompanied) singer. "Men Diamler is a young man with a cult reputation in the South West who will not be tamed by the powers that be, reconfiguring a English/Welsh soul music through woozy operatics and wild and weird song/stories. Sweet and darkness have never sounded so close or so intense in such performer. Despite his tender age he is a channel for old thyme ways - footstompin' blues, two string serenades, backwoods drinking hollers, horse play and pagan folk all get exorcised. Psychosis never sounded this good and people clap" Qujunktions " .. tears away at your singer/songwriter preconceptions, replacing them with black humour and visceral gore" Rottenmeats "imagine Roy Orbison with a two punctured lungs and John Fahey with a fractured hand?well, he sounds better than that" "Mr. Diamler's music seems to carve its initials somewhere between Son House & Syd Barrett on the musical park-bench. That said, this is fiery and unapologetic music that lives in a fucked up, peculiar world of it's own. Lopsided folk music that leaps at you, sometimes very literally" Thora Zine "Men Diamler cannot be ignored. He looks a little like electric-era Bob Dylan, and it's just him and his guitar, and sometimes it's just him, a cappella – not even always in front of a microphone – but his voice is so astonishing that traffic literally stops. Yes, I know what I've just said. He makes sure we know we'
top songs
albums
12 Songs for a Girl
Sea Shanties for the Far Inland
Stick In The Wheel presents... From Here: English Folk Field Recordings
Bring On The Empty Horses
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Men Diamler
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From Here: English Folk Field Recordings
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Album Demos
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HOME TAPING IS MUSIC (WR018)
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Bringing Colour to the Memories of Your Life: last month's mix, October 2010
Lon Chaney Vs. Dandelion Batman
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Shahnameh ('Inbetween Things')
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