Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actress Fatoumata Diawara has shared a new video for ‘Blues’ featuring world-renowned pianist Roberto Fonseca. Fatoumata calls on the djinn spirits, protectors of our family, community and country to thank them for their protection.
Northwest & Nebulous is the most layered, complex thing Luce Mawdsley have created to date. It provides an almost utopian glimpse of a particular corner of England, but more importantly, it shows a way of getting there by embracing queerness and unique personal expression.
Taken from his forthcoming new album ‘One Evening and Other Folk Songs’, Buck Curran has shared his new single ‘Black is the Colour’ – channelling early Pentangle, it’s quite unlike anything he has done before.
Scott Ballew has created something that rivals the work of John Prine, Townes VanZandt and even Mr. Zimmerman himself. Rio Bravo keeps sneaking up on you, mixing music and metaphors in the most amazing ways. If it’s not a masterpiece, it’s pretty damn close.
Smithsonian Folkways Announces New Historical Album – a live 1965 Concert featuring Bessie Jones, John Davis & The Georgia Sea Island Singers with Mississippi Fred McDowell – a riveting, historic look at the intersection of Black folk traditions and civil rights activism.
Ryan Gustafson of The Dead Tongues announces the release of two new albums on Psychic Hotline: Body of Light and I Am a Cloud and shares the two title track videos. The album features performances by Jenn Wasner, Mat Davidson, Joe Westerlund and more.
Toby Hay and Aidan Thorne’s ‘after a pause’ is music of sharply-defined brilliance, shot through with the light of the Welsh countryside, and brimming with consideration both for the spirit of collaboration and for the natural world.
Just A Man is the brand new single from Irish duo Colm O’Connell and Rory McDaid under their artist moniker Rezo, taken from their new album, The Age of Self Help, due for release on 12th July 2024.
Lately, the influence of traditional music, always there somewhere in the background, has made itself more apparent in the music of BIG|BRAVE, and A Chaos Of Flowers continues this trend – a visceral, moving, complex and gloriously heavy piece of work.
Taken from their forthcoming new album Swallowtail, listen to Marisa Anderson and Jim White’s new single ‘Peregrine’, a gorgeous slow-burner that highlights the duo’s almost effortless synchronicity
Norwegian singer and composer Susanna announces her new album, Meditations on Love, and shares its lead single, “Everyone Knows.” Watch the accompanying self-directed video, filmed and edited by Jonas Mailand, that explores the idea of feeling alone while being together.
Taken from her fourth album, Cool Head (that accompanies her debut novel, Tell Me Who I Am), listen to Georgia Ruth’s new single ‘Duw Neu Magic’ – “…Iwan Morgan, who co-produced the album, says it sounds like rainy Paris in the 60s – I’m happy with that!”.
