This week’s mix is another offering from our Lost in Transmission series. A number of the tracks played have featured in recent features and reviews which are linked to below for you to dig deeper.
Of the music recently featured, we have Colorama, Emma Kupa, Darren Hayman, Baby Copperhead and The Stringed Serpents, Brigid Mae Power, Stuart Moxham & Louis Philippe, Mary Lattimore, Cinder Well, Mossy Kilcher, with her recently reissued 1977 private press release Northwind Calling, Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom and I Draw Slow.
Also featured:
Touki are Amadou Diagne from Senegal and French-American Cory Seznec. They met while busking in Bath and hit it off, planting the seeds of a future collaboration in their minds. Their new album Right of Passage is out now and as you can hear in this week’s mix, is simply sublime.
We have music from Jack Bessant‘s forthcoming solo album Lucky Mountain, set for release next month on CHEDX Records /High Head Recordings. For the Reef bassist and solo-artist, this most recent body of work – which includes Peacemaker EP (July 2020) and Brother Thunder EP (Autumn 2020) – is the culmination of a road long travelled. Peacemaker left me in mind of Gary Higgins and his psych-folk masterpiece, circa 1973 Red Hash which was reissued by Drag City from which a track also features.
Galway native Me Auld Flower (a songwriter based in the western Irish wilderness of Connemara who we’ve featured before) releases single Get Out of California with an accompanying video on 24th July 2020 (which we will premiere early next week). The single coincides with a limited edition CD release of album The Vaults of Consciousness, available on Bandcamp.
Siv Jakobsen returns next month with her new record ‘A Temporary Soothing’ (Aug 21), an incredibly finely spun record which is as delicate as it is powerful. The track we’ve included ‘Anywhere Else’, is also the latest single, that explores how Siv struggles with the smallest decisions; What to do? What to eat? What to wear? In a time where these decisions dominate our life, Siv’s new album is set to provide much-needed refuge in testing times.
Martin Kirkegaard is a new name to me but is one that will remain in your memory for a long time after hearing Tar Gui, his official solo album debut consisting of 10 pieces for guitar and 2 for banjo. Martin is a danish contemporary folk musician rooted in the improvisational aspect of music. This is one of the most beautiful and engaging albums I’ve listened to in some time which we hope to be bringing you more on soon. In the meantime, go and order it here: https://martinkirkegaard.bandcamp.com/album/tar-gui
Music Played
00:00 Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom – Rise Up Alexa
02:35 Colorama – Dusty Road
05:43 Emma Kupa – When Our Toes Are Long Enough
08:04 Darren Hayman – I Want To Get Drunk
12:02 Baby Copperhead and The Stringed Serpents – Fire
15:21 I Draw Slow – Apocalypso
18:26 Mossy Kilcher – Coyote’s Cry
20:50 Brigid Mae Power – We Weren’t Sure
24:53 Stuart Moxham & Louis Philippe – Fighting To Lose
27:54 Mary Lattimore – Sometimes He’s In My Dreams
31:31 Martin Kirkegaard – Bark
35:53 Me Auld Flower – Get Out of California
39:45Cinder Well – No Summer
43:31 Touki – Samba Featuring Endris Hassen
48:07 Jack Bessant – Peacemaker
52:32 Gary Higgins – Down on the Farm
55:32 Siv Jakobsen – Anywhere Else
58:25William Tyler – Alpine Star
Photo Credit: Timon Klauser