KLOF No. 97 (Folk, Experimental, Alternative)

Alongside new tunes from Spell Songs and Birdvox, this week’s Mixtape delivers twists and turns. Fishing songs from Charles O’Hegarty and Kings of the South Seas, and cattle and work songs from Buffalo Kin. Cédric Dind-Lavoie blends folklore with ambient, introspective music, and Ruth Clinton delivers a solo number at The Cobblestone Pub in Dublin, before joining Poor Creature – ft. Cormac Mac Diarmada (Lankum) and John Dermody (The Jimmy Cake).

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00:00 Buffalo Kin – Mule N’ Plow
03:02 Spell Songs – Senegal
06:17 mise an sliabh – Ní mhairfinn go deo
09:02 Arborist – The Dark and the Moon
09:59 Charles O’Hegarty – Shoals of Herring
12:10 Kings Of The South Seas – I’m on My Journey Home
16:16 Sally Anne Morgan – I Saw a Heron
19:33 Cédric Dind-Lavoie – Tenant mon frère (avec Alphonse Morneau, 1946)
22:34 Spell Songs – Bells Fall Still
26:31 Ruth Clinton – Lament of the Irish Mother
30:21 Poor Creature – Bury Me Not
35:42 Alex Roberts – Petrichor
41:23 Cédric Dind-Lavoie – Reel à bouche (avec Benoît Benoît, 1957)
43:28 Birdvox – King Orfeo
47:46 Buffalo Kin – The Last Stampede
51:05 Em Marshall – Love He Said

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Spell Songs – In Thin Air

Spell Songs’ third studio album, In Thin Air, is a creative reaction to Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s The Book of Birds. Fifteen songs deal with different aspects of avian life, from nest-building to migration, building up a noticeable narrative thrust. Again and again, this album cleverly conflates the lives of birds with human experience. It is an album in constant fluttering movement, one that soars and sings.

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Birdvox – Shamming the Drama

Birdvox are a kind of supergroup, and on ‘Shamming the Drama’ the quartet may, at any given time, backtrack into traditional Scottish folk, sidestep into pulsing disco beats, and lean into glitchy, blissful electronica. Their debt to traditional music gives their sound a unique edge, but of all the many elements that make Birdvox sound like no other band, that sense of community might be one of the most important.

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KLOF No. 97 (Folk, Experimental, Alternative)

Alongside new tunes from Spell Songs and Birdvox, this week’s Mixtape features fishing songs from Charles O’Hegarty and Kings of the South Seas, and cattle and work songs from Buffalo Kin. Cédric Dind-Lavoie blends folklore with ambient, introspective music, and Ruth Clinton delivers a solo number at The Cobblestone Pub in Dublin before joining Poor Creature ft. Cormac Mac Diarmada and John Dermody.

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KLOF No. 97 (Folk, Experimental, Alternative)

From fishing songs to cattle and work songs, from solo singing sessions to blending folklore with ambient and introspective music.

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