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.
Brooklyn guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer Steve Gunn has announced a string of solo UK tour dates on which he will also be joined by the incredible Brigid Mae Power.
Dutch lute player and composer Jozef Van Wissem announces details of his forthcoming album ‘The Night Dwells in the Day’, and shares his first single and video “The Call of the Deathbird”, featuring stirring and enveloping guest vocals from Hilary Woods.
Tashi Dorji’s 2012 cassette-only release Guitar Improvisations is to be released on vinyl for the first time. Watch the new video for Improvisations I – Playing purely experimentally, he inhabits the now, increasing the elements in his play and carefully building a hypnotic whole.
The songs on See The Big Man Cry have been so well chosen and covered that should Robert Rex Waller Jr fancy flipping through his record collection for a third volume, it would be very welcome.
