The June Carriers

Based in the northern coastal city of Porto, Fransisco Silva has spent much of the last two decades recording under the alias Old Jerusalem - a nod to the concluding work from Will Oldham’s (Bonnie Prince Billy) 1995 album Viva Last Blues. Silva’s impressive collection of 9 full-length albums are cemented across a decade of vibrant Iberian folk rock, collaborating with local indie labels Bor Land, Rastilho Records, and Pad alongside like-minded players including Paulo Miranda, Alla Polacca, and Peter Broderick. As Old Jerusalem, Silva’s recordings are vivid, lyrical, and poetic, balancing similarities with Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, M. Ward, and Mark Oliver Everett, while sonically his recordings are contoured by earnestness and a sense of foreign nostalgia. Under his newly minted The June Carriers alias, Silva’s music is comparatively more abstract, spinning off from the stylistic clarity of his hitherto main creative endeavors into a rolling collection of meditative instrumentals.