After making his debut at ZDB last year and touring non-stop alongside the likes of Devendra Banhart and Jenny Lewis, the very charismatic Hayden Pedigo returns to this stage with the new ‘I’ll Be Waving As I Drive Away’ still fresh in the Mexican Summer catalog. The latest installment in what he himself has come to define as his “Motor Trilogy”, completing the triptych begun with ‘Letting Go’ and ‘The Happiest Times I’ve Ever Ignored’, ‘I’ll Be Waving As I Drive Away’ once again explores the landscapes of deepest America with an ever more refined sense of vision. Once again featuring a cover by Jonathan Phillips as a link between the three albums, in a process that didn’t follow a prior plan but unfolded organically, this new album revitalizes John Fahey’s American Primitive Guitar heritage with fingerpicking stripped of virtuosity that weaves memorable melodic lines imbued with an imagery as particular as it is appealing. Illuminated by arrangements of synthesizer, violin or pedal steel, these melodies rise to a kind of contemplative psychedelia, a sweet melancholy that absorbs the immensity of the road to collect it in themes of an almost casual fluidity, not completely disconnected from the meshes of Jim O’Rourke’s ‘Halfway to a Threeway’ or ‘Bad Timing’, enlivened by micro dosing. Good mood and subtle emotion. But complete. BS

P. S. Lucas has been refining the art of making songs for some time. “In Between”, the solo debut, carried the echoes of the modern age masters of songwriting – from Cohen to Callahan, from Drake to Brassens – but with a signature very much of his own. The newly released Villains & Chieftains is yet another quiet revolution, and one that keeps stiring the hearts of its listeners. Lucas’s music emanates a light not to be found anywhere else, a hue that is recognized only here: part blue, part sepia, part sea, part land, part present, part memory, part silence, part shudder.
Native from the Azores islands, midway between the old and the new continents, he has spent a long journey in Copenhagen before moving back to the city of his heart: Lisbon, Portugal. He was the mind behind the electro-folklore extravaganza O Experimentar, back in 2010, and the younger half of the duo MEDEIROS / LUCAS, authors of a critically acclaimed trilogy consisting of Mar aberto (2015), Terra do Corpo (2016) and Sol de Março (2018).
In his solo shows he travels through the whole spam of his career, embroidering Portuguese and English spoken songs, finger-picked guitar improvisations and electronic sound processing.