Oscar Cainer is a new arrival at the station. I came across Oscar on Myspace and his album, In the Corner, is a great accoustic driven debut. It was Nick Drake who inspired him to put aside his electric guitar for an accoustic one. The following is taken from his biography
Since he was 15 Oscar has played some of the best acoustic clubs London has to offer. He was the youngest person ever to feature solo at the Kashmir Klub, sharing the bill with the likes of Duke Special and Ed Harcourt, and has gone on to delight audiences all over the Capital with songs full of poetic imagery and impassioned sentiment. For two years he ran Oscar’s Academy, his own event that Time Out called ‘one of the most important new acoustic nights in London’ but more recently has been appointed as the head of sound engineering at Camden’s Green Note, the finest vegetarian acoustic venue in London. At Green Note he has had the privilege of sound engineering for the likes of ex-Blur guitar hero Graham Coxon, music legend Barry ‘The Fish’ Melton and nu-folk rising star Scott Matthews as well as many future stars such as Anaïs Mitchell and Diana Jones. During this period he has also began playing in, recording with and co-managing Rosewood Green, a progressive folk group formed by Pete Greenwood and Eugenie Garrett and studying music at the prestigious Westminster University that boasts alumni of the likes of The Feeling and Tom Baxter.
Now aged 22, he has finished work on recordings for a new album of folk/country inspired gems, entitled ‘In The Corner’, an uncompromisingly emotional work of carefully crafted music with a subtle exterior that hints at the passionate core.
Find out more and listen to Oscar by visiting his site: http://oscar2.itsology.net/
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