For Stick in the Wheel’s latest music video ‘Robot’, Hastings-based Zeroh rose to the occasion, constructing an animated robot out of LIDAR-scanned objects and tools found on the beach in Hastings Old Town. Watch it here.
Following on from the dramatic success of their “debut duo” album – “A year too late & a month too soon”, listen to Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones’ new single – Early Pearly, our Song of the Day. Proceeds will be donated to local homeless charities in Yorkshire.
Today, marks the release of ‘The Longest Night’, a very welcome seasonal offering from one of our favourite bands, The Furrow Collective. Their winter tour ‘We Know By The Moon’, also kicks off this month.
Iona Lane recently participated in Making Tracks, an international music exchange programme. While there, she recorded a lovely session at Peaton Layo beach. She performs Western Tidal Swell on a beautiful Taran guitar, the song is taken from her stunning debut album Hallival.
The Shovel Dance Collective’s The Water is the Shovel of the Shore is one of the most forward-thinking and original collections of traditional material you’re likely to hear this year, or any year.
Taken from her latest album ‘Out of this Frame’, watch the video for Rachel Taylor-Beales’s ‘Fire Girl’, a song inspired by fire spinner Steffi Wulf. There is also a short film in which Steffi responds to the song and tells her moving and inspiring story.
Dark Horse is a beautiful debut EP from Annie Baylis and a thoroughly enticing introduction. I’m sure that I will not be the only one relishing the prospect of a full album.
The first wave of artists set to appear at the 2023 Orkney Folk Festival has just been announced, with 24 acts from around the world revealed for the event’s fortieth anniversary.
Satomimagae breathes new vitality into Awa, her beguiling debut album, revisited and expanded for its tenth anniversary. Watch her new video for ‘Inu’ by Kanako Sakamoto.
‘The Wedding Above in Glencree’, is the much anticipated fourth solo album from Dublin’s own Daoirí Farrell. Listen to his first album single ‘Sonny’s Dream’ – a song by Ron Hynes about the hopes and dreams of a young boy.
Last month, James Yorkston, Nina Persson and The Second Hand Orchestra announced their new album The Great White Sea Eagle. Due for release on January 13th, they have today shared the second cut from the record, “An Upturned Crab”.
The Amish record label are to reissue P.G. Six’s 2001 solo debut ‘Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites’ as an expanded and remastered edition that includes an eight-song bonus LP entitled ‘Live Cuts and Radio Favorites’ documenting performances from the calendar year just before and after the release.
