The Imagine Project, the new CD from multiple Grammy-winning artist and musical pioneer Herbie Hancock, is an unprecedented international recording and film project featuring collaborations between music legend Herbie Hancock and over a dozen superstars from every region of the planet.

We Walk is a short film which stumbles into the journey of a young girl desperate to leave the city in search of isolation and in turn, sleep. Shot in LA and Palm Springs, the film is based on a new poem by Writer, Brett Darling.

We recently interviewed Lail Arad and took the opportunity of asking her to do a mix. The result was the Mango Mix, it beats the mix she did for Q Magazine hands down!

Communion, the glorious London Clubnight set up by Mumford & Sons’ keyboardist Ben Lovett and Cherbourg’s Kev Jones, is once again gracing the beautiful city of Bristol, and you should expect nothing less than another fun filled, musical talent infused, merry drinking session down at Mr.Wolfs on Sunday 11th April! Folk Radio UK will be there to take in this month’s line up of acts, which look amazing! This has …

If I handed you an album and described it as “Decemberists meet Tom Waits meet Beirut meet Leonard Cohen”…you’d be impressed, yes? Well I would be. These are the words chosen to describe Brooklyn Singer/songwriter / Multi-instrumentalist, Robin Aigner’s latest release, Bandito.

A new arrival on Folk Radio UK is artist, Cam Penner with his third album, Trouble and Mercy which is released this week. I’ve been looking forward to reviewing this album ever since I first heard it.

At the Oupost is Edinburgh based Chris Bradley’s second album. The album has already caught the worthy attention of media critics including The Times who gave it very high praise. Chris is gifted in the songwriting and composing department where he has plied his trade for TV and radio in the past.

A welcome return to our Rootie channel is Eric Bibb. I can still remember buying his 1997 album Good Stuff from the basement folk section of Rays Jazz in London. He has maintained that smooth baritone and unfancy guitar delivery since.

The Carolina Chocolate Drops just keep getting better. Having seen some recent performances, I figured it was only a matter of time before they released a finely honed album that would be an amalgamation of their modern day musical influences crossed with their hallmark Piedmont String Band sound from the foothills of the southern Appalachian Mountains.

I came across LITTLEgiants recently when trawling through myspace one night. What appealed to me was that they didn’t have that all too common over-produced sound you often hear today, instead they had a sound I love that dates back to a bygone era when bands sang around one microphone.

Blues Americana guitarist singer and songwriter Brooks Williams delivers the deepest and most intense interpretations of everything from early blues songs to his recent original compositions on Baby O!, his 17th CD, his first recorded in the UK.

Holly Throsby is, for want of a better word, a travelling troubador, whose deeply personal lyrics and warming voice have made her the winner of many hearts both at home in Australia and abroad.