A huge step forward from Bobby Lee, Endless Skyways is a bold, dramatic and sensitive collaboration between the guitarist and his intuitive band. An exciting and fascinating piece of work.

Kate Stables of This is the Kit seems almost to be a force of nature. She bends music to her will, creating and refining contexts almost at will. With Careful of Your Keepers she has created her own magic lantern, ever changeable, ever intriguing.

Sourdurent, the new Occitan-language group project from French folk experimentalist Ernest Bergez, share their brilliantly inventive video for La Dumenchada – set in medieval times and aided by psychotropic drugs, the poor reap the riches of the wealthy.

The talented Dallahan return with their fourth studio album, ‘Speak of the Devil’, a taut and riotous blend of vibrant, energetic, toe-tapping goodness – a stirring, striking, and thoroughly gripping listen.

It’s a sense of connectedness from the diaspora to the ‘motherland’ that makes Subhana such a  triumph – An ocean of sensations, Ahmed Ben Ali’s long-awaited collection radiates energy, peace and spiritual love.

Hannah Aldridge’s ‘Dream of America’ calls on you to listen with both ears, heart and mind, downplaying the vocal power of past releases in favour of an understated honeyed smokiness, it’s her most ambitious and assured work to date.

Clare Sands is joined by Brian Finnegan of FLOOK on her anthemic new single Dealán Dé, an ancient word from County Donegal meaning both butterfly and Northern lights – watch the accompanying video directed and shot by visual artists and twin sisters Liadain and Kasia Kaminska.

The canon of African electronic music is significantly enhanced by the release of ‘Synthesized Sudan’, the first ever release of electronic Jaglara, an obscure dance music from an area near the Sudan, Ethiopia, and Eritrea border. Full marks to Ostinato Records for bringing such joyful, uplifting new dance music to our ears.

New Land are to release a beautifully presented LP box set reissue of Dorothy Ashby’s first six albums. We take a brief look at the pioneering jazz harpist – her journey and how she paved the way for future generations like Brandee Younger.

It’s been nine years since Laura Cantrell released an album and ‘Just Like a Rose’, on which she is joined by a number of special guests, is a glorious affirmation that she’s not lost her magical touch.

The latest Monday Morning Brew features Dorothy Ashby, Captain Beefheart, Dur-Dur- Band, Kacy & Clayton, F.J. McMahon, Leah Senior, Piers Faccini, Miriam Makeba, Scott McMicken, This is The Kit, Cat Clyde, Dean Johnson, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Buffy Saint-Marie, Bob Dylan, Pentangle, C Joynes and more.

Contemporary Americana artist Dusky Waters talks us through her new album “Pass It On”, which is out today. Like the culturally rich Mississippi Delta that has anchored her life from childhood, the music of Dusky Waters embraces a multitude of influences…a remarkably entertaining album.