Jim Moray — folk music’s errant prince — returns with Gallants, his eighth solo album. Traditional ballads are teased into stunning new shapes, the self-penned Three Gallants fits seamlessly among them, and the imposing Omie Wise drips with pathos and tenderness. A stunning closer backed by Maddie Morris and the Trans Choir seals an uncompromising, deeply immersive collection.

Yasmin Williams releases her original score for ‘Saving Etting Street’, a documentary about a Baltimore carpenter training young Black women to renovate abandoned row houses and build generational wealth. Playing acoustic guitar, 12-string, piano, kora, and synthesizers, Williams brings her latest film composition to life. The ‘Saving Etting Street’ soundtrack is available now via Bandcamp.

Sareban, the musical project of rubab player Mathieu Clavel, shares Ayrılık, a new single from debut album Echoes in the Weave on Worlds Within Worlds. The track explores the 10/8 jurjuna, a Kurdish rhythmic cycle rarely heard in traditional rubab repertoire, opening new pathways for phrasing and improvisation on the instrument. Listen now.

This week’s Mixtape reaches back through the decades — from Alasdair Roberts’ The Amber Gatherers and Sir Richard Bishop’s Tangier Sessions to a 1966 Folkways recording of classical Persian music from Iran — while keeping one ear on the present with new tracks from Juni Habel, Goblin Band, and Natalie Wildgoose. Folk songs, Castanets, Jason Molina, and a few other surprises along the way.

Natalie Wildgoose is our latest Off the Shelf guest, selecting ten objects from the two homes she splits her life between — London and North Yorkshire. From a childhood pillow to her grandad’s reel-to-reel tape machine, each item opens a window into the world behind her forthcoming EP Rural Hours, due April 15th via state51.

Félicia Atkinson and Christina Vantzou’s “Reflections Vol. 3: Water Poems” is a breathtakingly beautiful world of hushed, swooning sonics and suggestive spoken word. The duo describe personal moments but present them as shared worlds, as if exploded by magnification. Its every moment rings with care, craft and impressive sonic exactitude. An utterly compelling musical journey, out April 10th via RVNG Intl.

Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and The Rajasthan Express share new single “Shemesh” and its accompanying video, ahead of their album “Ranjha,” out 8th May via World Circuit/BMG. A decade on from Junun, the 21-strong ensemble reconvened in Greenwood’s Oxfordshire studio to channel Sufi devotion, Rajasthani folk and collective musical exploration into a long-awaited follow-up.

Zoh Amba announces Eyes Full, their Matador debut album, out June 5th, and shares the first single and video Another Time. Returning to their first instrument, the guitar, and to their Tennessee hometown, Amba delivers tough, soulful songs tracked live with no overdubs. The album looks closely at working-class lives with aching, unsentimental tenderness.

Juni Habel’s Evergreen In Your Mind is an absolutely wonderful record. Eleven songs of comforting timelessness built on homely nylon guitar and subtly deployed production — from the perfection of Stand So Still to the mesmeric suspense of Gitarhum. This is 41 minutes of sumptuous music that cleanses the mind and reconnects you with the things that matter in life.

Chris Brain shares “Kinds Of Kindness”, the third single and video from his forthcoming album “Red Sun Rising” – “a fragile song based on my childhood and that is represented by the harmonics throughout, the instrumentation is supposed to convey a building of intensity and in the end forgiveness.” An extensive UK and Ireland tour begins in April.

One Leg One Eye — the blackened-folk project of Lankum’s Ian Lynch and George Brennan — announce their second album CRONE, out 22 May on AD 93, and share its first track, Many are my Names Besides, featuring legendary performer Olwen Fouéré channelling the war goddess Morrigan. Watch the official video now.

Rua Rí shares “Makeover,” a new single and video from debut album, “Tell Your Mother I Saved Your Life,” out 1st May via Soft Boy Records. Written on the spot while busking on Shandon Bridge in Cork City, the track is a giddy rush of nursery rhyme absurdism and folk energy — with a video Damery describes as “a mob wife pre-drinks party.”