Most of this week’s Mixtape looks back at the past, although there are a few new tunes: one from Juni Habel‘s new album Evergreen In Your Mind, a new tune from the Goblin Band, and a track you may not have yet heard from Natalie Wildgoose‘s forthcoming EP Rural Hours. Natalie is also our latest Off the Shelf Guest – read that feature here.
As for the past, from the not so distant we have: Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions, North Carolina’s Weirs (from last year’s Diamond Grove), and Matthew Broadley’s 2025 debut as Greet. Further back we have Alasdair Roberts‘ full-band offering The Amber Gatherers (2007), Sir Richard Bishop‘s Tangier Sessions (2015), and further still – to 1966 – an album released by Folkways Records: Classical Music of Iran, Vol. 2: The Dastgah Systems, which continues the presentation of classical Persian music featured in Classical Music of Iran, Vol. 1, compiled in 1966 by Ella Zonis. There’s a few more surprises thrown in. The photo on the cover of this week’s Mixtape was taken in Teheran in 1934.
Enjoy
Playlist
00:00 Alasdair Roberts – Where Twines The Path
03:44 James Yorkston – Rosemary Lane
07:07 Nancy Wallace – Ploughman Lads
09:47 Juni Habel – I’d Like To See It
14:00 Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions – Blackwater Side
19:53 Natalie Wildgoose – Wind Callers
21:32 Weirs – Lord Randall
30:43 Jason Molina – Old Worry
32:53 Beirut – East Harlem
36:46 Bowerbirds – Olive Hearts
42:08 Owl Service – Standing On The Shore
47:20 Goblin Band – Go From My Window
50:31 Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko – O Ignis Spiritus (excerpt)
59:56 Greet – May
01:03:11 Castanets – You Are The Blood
01:07:04 Ahmad Ebadi – Avaz of Dashti (Secondary Dastgah of Shour)
01:12:20 Ravinale & Uberto – La biondina di Voghera
01:16:36 Sam Amidon – Falsehearted Chicken