Folkwit Rec.
Pulco : Sorepaw (UK-WA,2007)***'
Ash Cooke, aka Pulco writes gentle bedroom songs, recorded in his own homestudio, after work, and when the kids are asleep. There are many nice and thoughtful guitar arrangements ideas, with interesting, almost meditative melodic evolutions which have a nice contribution of their own to the songs, something which shows talent. Small vocal arrangements increase the hug factor in the songs. Nice, but you can also hear the songs were written by someone who has some restrained limits in the song expressions, afraid to wake up the kids who are asleep.
Folkwit Rec. Pulco : Undersea Adventure (UK-WA,2005)***'
In combination with the cover, and considering the returning theme of water, beaches, and recipes for sardines, with all kinds of fantasies around the water shore, this sound like a want-to-be-happy pop album sung, with the time of the young boy he was, in mind, who was not allowed to go in the water because it might make him sick. This is the big and happy revenge, a fantasy of doing so, to be involved with the fish, even when in sardine boxes, to fantasise on becoming Poseidon with a snorkel, or to listen to radio under water (“Snorkelling the hours” on track 10 and not 9 gives me this impression). With these songs it sounds as if he experienced years around the water (“Mr.Haines” sounds like a sad true story), while he’s still not there. Well, you can experience this very easily with him. The organ and electronica is always played playfully, clockwise giving pulses to the act of singing, and some rhythm box touches do the same, while recognisable acoustic and amplified poprock arrangements form very often but not always the basics of accompaniment.
Folkwit Rec. Pulco : Wengen (UK-WA,2006)**° ??
review hopefully will be added soon
