Home / About Artist Link Contact Shop   Rella the Woodcutter Bio | Discography | Gallery |   RELLA THE WOODCUTTER - THE GOLDEN UNDERTOW Year: 2012 Record label: Boring Machines After his first approach with Boring Machines, a split 7” with My Dear Killer and an EP called “I Know When It’s Time To Get The Fuck Away”, Rella the Woodcutter is back with a full album of delicate and psichedelic songs reminding both the electric blues wave of the late nineties (Palace, Smog, Songs:Ohia) and their fathers which gathered togheter thirty years before that. The Golden Undertow opens with the gaunt “Dead Star”, a short and intense song with just few guitar notes and his voice. Both when singing accompaining himself with sparse guitar notes (“A Forest Journey”, “My Ship”, “Five”) or creating gentle psichedelic epicness with the effort of friends on violin, drums and other instruments (”Bonobo”, “Drugtime Family”) Rella prove to have learned the lesson well with an inspired album that speaks the language of blues and psichedelic folk. All the suggestions contained in his previous works are now mature for a full flavoured experience, including perfumed flute solos and hymns to a Black Universe. RELLA THE WOODCUTTER - SPLIT W/MY DEAR KILLER Year: 2011 Record label: Boring Machines Limited edition 7"  split with My Dear Killer RELLA THE WOODCUTTER - I KNOW WHEN IT'S TIME TO GET THE FUCK AWAY Year: 2011 Record label: Boring Machines After his first approach with Boring Machines, a split 7” with My Dear Killer, his latest work, an EP called “I Know When It’s Time To Get The Fuck Away” shows Rella’s different skills and interests in song crafting. From the initial sonic assault of “Apocryphal” to the final “Wrong Affection”, the five tracks guide the listener through shades of early nineties electric blues (think Palace, Songs:Ohia and fellows), sixties psichedelia flavoured from the spirit of Skip Spence. It’s no new thing he plays, but a fully devotion and understanding of the song dynamics makes Rella one of the most interesting musicians to continue the tradition that goes from psychedelic folk to blues to more experimental territories. Rella's singing is rich, intense and perfumed, sometimes plunged into deep trance, like in “Are You Expired?” or “Wrong Affection” where instruments and voice rise together in a psichedelic unison building from a country-like opening. Rella demonstrates he can manage nude guitar&voice songs, like in “Coward” where he accompany himself just with acoustic guitar fingerpicking and also skeletal electric blues like “Bodies” which transfigurates in a noisy orgy of percussions and violin. Recorded at home with the help of the aforementioned friends, this EP is the prelude of a forthcoming album which is part of the vynil trilogy started with the self released “Nihilist Shack”.