Featuring Méabh Begley (accordion, vocals), Owen Spafford (fiddle) and Cait Ni Riain (piano, vocals), watch The Weaving performing “My Bonnie Blue Eyed Lassie” live. They are on tour in June, and their debut album drops later this year.
Compositions for Guitar Vol. 1 & 2 reveal Will Graefe as an artist not limited to a single form. He creates music that moves the mind and soul, whether using strings and steel or synthesis.
A new eclectic Mixtape featuring Zoé Basha, Màiri Morrison & Alasdair Roberts, Alex Rex, Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas, Fred Moten & Brandon Lopez, Samantha Whates & MG Boulter, Alabaster DePlume and more.
Fred Moten & Brandon Lopez’s ‘Revision’ offers a unique hybrid of voice and double bass, intertwined impossibly as one in a recital that lives, breathes, evolves, explores, changes and expresses as one in an impossibly unrepetitive hour of sonic splendour.
Junior Brother shares his new single and striking new video, Small Violence, plus details of his forthcoming album, The End, to be released on Strap Originals. It marks an exciting new chapter for this increasingly distinctive Irish voice.
While short, Samantha Whates and M G Boulter’s ‘Flower Days’ wastes no notes. A deeply felt and humane work, full of quiet joy and love of life and nature, this fresh and evocative release is one to savour.
Japanese musician and songwriter Satomimagae has shared her third and final single ‘Tonbo’, taken from her forthcoming new album ‘Taba’ (out this Friday). Watch the accompanying video by longtime collaborator Norio.
Described as a joyfully irreverent psychedelic fantasia of folklore, free jazz, and avant-garde Blues, Chicago composer, improviser, instrumentalist, and musical folklorist Ben LaMar Gay announces his new album and shares the title track single, Yowzers.
Following their 2012 debut, Màiri Morrison and Alasdair Roberts reunite on ‘Remembered in Exile: Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia’. It’s a beautiful and glimmering album on which they also demonstrate how to wring intense emotions from the most minimal of ingredients.
Last month, Rachael McShane & The Cartographers released their new album, Uncharted. Have a listen and read Rachael’s personal Track by Track guide to the album.
When Bitchin Bajas and Natural Information Society get together, a singular kind of magic emerges that epitomises the creative spirit of the Chicago scene but is nevertheless unique. ‘Totality’ is the fullest possible rendering of that magic and an essential piece of work.
