Artist: Sam Reider
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Song: “The Murder”
In Their Words: “‘The Murder’ speaks for itself. It is wordless murder ballad with a hauntingly beautiful melody that came to me one night in a dream. A little bit Morricone-Western-film-score, a little bit Andrew Bird, it was the first composition I wrote in the FutureFolkMusik series and inspired all the others that followed.” — Sam Reider