Our latest Mixtape opens to Frankie Archer, whose new album, The Dance of Death, is out today. We’ve also got new music from Zoh Amba, Simon Joyner, Johnny Bell, and a near-fifteen-minute finale from Brown Wimpenny.
There’s also tunes from Iona Zajac, Stein Urheim, The Deadlians, Hack-Poets Guild, Naomi Alligator, Deer Scout, Josh Kimbrough, Nora Brown, anne annie, Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell, Kinloch Nelson, Robert Wyatt, Maxine Funke and Lisa Knapp.
You can also here a track from The Modern Folk, from a compilation album that was released back in February titled The Perilous Fight – Vol. 1: Justice for All. While this album is aimed at raising funds for the National Immigrant Justice Center, to support critical legal and humanitarian work for immigrants facing detention, deportation, and systemic injustice in the US, the chances of a similar situation happening in the UK is sounding increasingly likely, especially when the “anti-migrant right is sounding increasingly American“.
About the Album: In late January, Mike Horn of Seawind of Battery and Mike Mannix, founder of the music label Centripetal Force, issued a call for submissions for a benefit compilation titled The Perilous Fight. The response was immediate—and overwhelming. Within days, more than 70 artists had answered the call, so many that it will now be released as a three-volume digital compilation.
This is not an ordinary benefit compilation. The Perilous Fight is a collective statement of solidarity—a response to the escalating rhetoric, intimidation, and violence shaping daily life in communities across the country. The contributors are everyday Americans using music to speak out against cruelty, authoritarianism, and the atmosphere of fear fostered by the current administration. This first volume is largely instrumental. These are artists are expressing their voice through their instruments.
“Let’s say the quiet thing out loud,” Mannix explains. “A lot of us are scared. Scared of how close this violence feels, how easily it could reach our own towns, streets, and families. That fear isn’t accidental—it’s the result of a sustained campaign of intimidation coming from the highest levels of power. And it weighs heaviest on already vulnerable communities.”
Read more and buy the album here: https://seawindofbattery.bandcamp.com/album/the-perilous-fight-vol-1-justice-for-all
Playlist
To note: most of the album titles link to Bandcamp.
- 00:00 Frankie Archer – The Outlandish Knight (The Dance of Death)
- 03:11 Iona Zajac – Dilute (Bang)
- 07:27 The Modern Folk – Automaton (The Perilous Fight – Vol 1. Justice for All)
- 11:54 Stein Urheim – Oh So Nice (Strandebarm)
- 15:12 Zoh Amba – Dead End Street (Eyes Full)
- 17:52 The Deadlians – Scumbag with an Icepop (Watch Out! Here Come The Deadlians)
- 20:38 Hack-Poets Guild – Daring Highwayman (Blackletter Garland)
- 23:27 Simon Joyner – Isn’t This How the Story Always Begins (Tough Love)
- 30:33 Naomi Alligator – Neighborhood Freak (Double Knot)
- 33:31 Deer Scout – Synesthesia (Woodpecker)
- 35:24 Cat Clyde & Jeremie Albino – Girl From The North Country (Blue Blue Blue)
- 38:07 Josh Kimbrough – Backyard Hawk (Slither, Soar & Disappear)
- 41:04 Nora Brown – Jenny Put the Kettle On (Long Time to be Gone)
- 43:01 ann annie – the meadow (feat. Frankie Cosmos) (el prado)
- 45:32 Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell – To the Boy (The North Farm Sessions)
- 47:49 Johnny Bell – Caldera Repose (Mountain States)
- 52:16 Kinloch Nelson – Partly On Time (Partly On Time: Recordings 1968-70)
- 55:16 Robert Wyatt – A Beautiful Peace (Comicopera)
- 57:42 Maxine Funke – Willow White (River Said)
- 01:02:24 Lisa Knapp – Six Dukes (Wild & Undaunted)
- 01:06:59 Brown Wimpenny – Gaslight, Seanhamac Tube Station, The Sailors Wife, Lovely Bann Water (Long Live Brown Wimpenny)