Just a few months on from the release of her stunning album ‘The Pivot On Which The World Turns’, Polly Paulusma has released a ‘sister’ album – ‘When Violent Hot Pitch Words Hurt’, that may even eclipse the original.
Volume 1 is an album packed with outstanding musicianship, on which Will Pound and Jenn Butterworth show themselves to be brimming over with ideas and possessed of a determination not to be confined by others’ expectations of what constitutes their style.
Featuring music from Joseph Allred, Rob Noyes, Jesse Sheppard, Isasa, D.C Cross, Nick Jonah Davis and many more, Buck Curran has curated a stunning tribute to the guitarist Steffen Basho-Junghans. This amount of musical quality and artistic depth is rarely found on one compilation.
‘Dindin’ is an optimistic album, one on which Kimi Djabaté pays homage to his griot heritage while also artistically expressing the complexity of contemporary life in Africa, both the joys and obstacles.
Our Song of the Day is ‘Quatro Palavras’, from Marlene Ribeiro’s new album Toquei no Sol – a mesmerising sound journey that features her grandmother singing in her kitchen in Portugal.
Watch the new video from Glasgow-based Turkish musician Isik Kural for ‘lo si aspetta’, recorded live. The video was shot in Amasya, Turkey, lends weight to that sense of time and the idea of Isik being a photographer of sound.
Released today, Andy Skellam talks us through his new EP Tide/Shore, which you can also listen to in full. Andy creates intimate worlds, inviting the listener in with the warmth of his baritone voice and the often surprising turns of his fingerpicked acoustic guitar.
Wayo is a raw, explosive and uplifting album and a totally immersive listen. The epithet “Vodou Priestess of Blues-Rock” sits well on Moonlight Benjamin; with this release, you will be rewarded in mind, body and spirit.
Jim Ghedi and Toby Hay, two of the UK folk scene’s finest guitarists, announce their self-titled, second collaborative album, out May 26th on Topic Records. In anticipation, the duo release the album’s first single, ‘Bright Edge Deep’
Joined by a number of gifted vocalists, Ben Walker’s ‘Banish Air from Air’ is a beautifully realised project, a fascinating, surprising and multi-faceted album of music, quite unlike anything you are likely to have heard before.
Our Song of the Day comes from Xylouris White with Red Wine, their latest single from their new album The Forest In Me. ‘Deep and deconstructed music that will also get ‘em up at weddings!’ Watch the accompanying video by Anna White.
Portuguese Fado star Carminho is set to release her much anticipated new studio album Portuguesa on March 3rd and has announced a UK concert, her first in over six years, at Union Chapel in London on May 12th. Watch her performing O quarto (fado Pagem).
