The Achill Sound’s Isle Of The Eagle is a fascinating documentary recording, interweaving stories of Achill Island’s’ past with traditional tunes and songs. Spending time with it will transport you to the homes, classrooms and local pub locations of Achill Islands storytellers and traditional musicians.

In July 2022, John Blek was commissioned to write a suite of songs about the city of Dresden. Joined by German musicians Filip Sommer (Viola) and Moritz Brümmer (Cello), watch his video for The City Sleeps, from his forthcoming EP: Digressions #3 – In Dresden.

Watch Ye Vagabonds’ full-length Nine Waves film project which presents a visual postcard of the sound world that the album inhabits, primarily based within a derelict building in Dublin and on location on the island of Arranmore, off the coast of Donegal.

“There is Only Love and Fear” is a wholly distinctive musical language, a jazz-inflected improvisational world music that quotes from minimalism without ever being in thrall to its history. When you consider that this is Bex Burch’s solo debut, that’s quite some feat.

John Francis Flynn shares his new single ‘Willie Crotty’ and its video, directed by Ruth Clinton and Cormac Dermody (from Lankum). It was recorded in a bedroom using the unlikely combination of a clarinet, a handheld radio, a Casio SK1, a harmonica and an effects pedal.

Gentle yet searching, yearning yet hopeful, Mutual Benefit’s ‘Growing at the Edges’ always seems to hold out hope despite how grim things can feel…just as birds seem to know that spring will come again.

A Winter Union (Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage, Gilmore & Roberts and Jade Rhiannon), announce their new album, Winter Tour and premiere their video for ‘Minstrels’ on which they set to music Wordsworth’s poem about the rigours of music-making in the depths of the British winter.

Providing thoughtful commentary on how the news is obtained and reported and a potted live Megson concert, “The Herald” album most certainly warrants getting some metaphorical ink on your fingers.

Natascha Rogers is the latest signing to the French imprint No Format! Watch the video for her serene and perfectly formed ‘Aniafa’, in which she urges us to rediscover the power of feminine energy that gives balance and harmony to nature.

Collaborator, fiddler and balladeer from Liverpool, Mikey Kenney’s latest single and video, ‘Dandelion’, is an uplifting, beautiful song, filled with some lovely moments – and quite unlike anything he has done before.

In the final moments of Ozarker, on which he pays homage to his Ozark roots in small-town Missouri, some of the songs drawing on his family history, Israel Nash sings, “I didn’t strike the match but I let it burn”. This album positively blazes.

Irish songwriter Oisin Leech, of The Lost Brothers shares his debut solo single and video, ‘October Sun’, produced and recorded by acclaimed Brooklyn artist Steve Gunn. The track features Portland-based musicians M Ward and Tony Garnier.