This week’s show features several new releases, including Dana Sipos, with a track taken from her new album The Astral Plane released today (25 June). Also out today – We have the new single from Mick Flannery and Susan O’Neill (from their new album) and the latest single from Joshua Burnside & Laura Quirke…
“Far Away the Hills are green is a song written as a kind of companion piece to Laura’s ‘Taking the Wheel’ – borrowing themes of youth, longing, and Irish weather. The demo was recorded at my studio and ended up being the actual recording used, with layers of Laura’s vocals added later. From the perspective of a young couple, it charts the thought process of longing for a better life, something like the glamorous and sunnier Californian lifestyles they see on their TV, to realising that everywhere people are basically longing for the same thing – to fill some unfillable emptiness inherent in us all. Laura’s transcendent vocals in the last half of the song lift what is a simple folk tune, up and out of the soggy fields and into the air, floating towards the horizon with never-ending hope for the future.” – Joshua Burnside
The Owl Service return and we’ve included a track from their latest offering Rise Up Rise Up which we reviewed here. Maz O’Connor also returns as her alter-ego vulpes and we have her first single Soho which we premiered earlier this week.
David Crosby has a new album out soon and the latest single, a Joni Mitchell cover – For Free, which features Sarah Jarosz, and we’ve also a track from Lunatraktors new album The Missing Star, which we reviewed here.
We have another track from Katherine Priddy’s The Eternal Rocks Beneath (out today), which we reviewed here. Katherine is our Artist of the Month, and you can read our recent in-depth interview with her here.
From one of our Featured Albums of the Month Kindred Souls you can hear Adrian Freedman’s Nightingale Soul Call also featuring Sam Lee on shruti box. We’ve also tracks from JP Harris‘ new album of Appalachian music Don’t You Marry a Railroad Man. Plus music from James Yorkston, Adrian Crowley and Francesca Ter-Berg (Fran & Flo).
Music Played
Dana Sipos – Daniel
Mick Flannery and Susan O’Neill – Chain Reaction
Katherine Priddy – About Rosie
The Owl Service – Interlude 13
JP Harris – Country Blues
Maz O’Connor, vulpes – Soho
David Crosby feat Sarah Jarosz – For Free
Adrian Crowley – Take Me Driving
James Yorkston – Rosemary Lane
Joshua Burnside & Laura Quirke – Far Away the Hills are Green
Lunatraktors – The Keening
Francesca Ter-Berg – Me Sunowa
Ravi Shankar – Gat Kirwani
Adrian Freedman & Sam Lee – Nightingale Soul Call
Photo Credit: Johannes Plenio