With ‘The Sorrow Songs’, Angeline Morrison set out to retell the stories of historic British Black ancestors through song. In this she has succeeded; those stories are now there for future generations to be retold & remembered. A gift and landmark folk album.
Bring Your Own Hammer is a new project in which historians and composers collaborate to create new and original song cycles based on historical sources. Listen to the first single from Adrian Crowley, featuring Brigid Mae Power, also our Song of the Day.
Elijah McLaughlin and his band of Joel Styzens and Jason Toth follow their 2020 debut with a multi-faceted and highly creative set. Elijah McLaughlin Ensemble II is a highly charged, fascinating and dynamic album.
Backed by an outstanding cast of musicians, M G Boulter takes Clifftown on the road this October, capturing the essence of the everyday seaside suburbia. The show includes short documentary films shot especially for the show by acclaimed director Andrew Delaney.
Finn Collinson is a man of many hats, as he demonstrates so well on his new single Jerry Bundler. The band knock the ball out of the park on this unexpected vocal track that bodes so well for his new album ‘The Threshold’. Watch the accompanying video here.
On Ranagri’s ‘Tradition ii’, the songs are packed with passages in which voices and instruments combine to astound the listener with some of the most attention-grabbing music I’ve heard in a long time.
Siobhan Miller’s fifth album ‘Bloom’ has an immediacy and energy beyond her previous offerings. If she can continue to harness the spark and spontaneity in evidence here, I’ll remain a convert. A prized bloom indeed.
Crazy Town is another solid album offering from Beth Nielsen Chapman; read our album review and watch the video for her country hymnal ‘Walk You To Heaven’, a collaboration with Kimmie Rhodes and Mindy Smith.
While in the blinding light of day, Marian van der Zon’s debut album ‘Still Rising’ is ‘simply’ a collection of highly listenable folk songs created in a rural Vancouver Island community; in terms of a triumph of the human spirit, it is an extraordinary achievement.
Rozi Plain holds an intimate gig in the Blue Basement, hidden below Soho’s Third Man Records store to celebrate the announcement of her forthcoming album Prize…Lila Tristram was there to soak it all up.
Watch “Which Side Are You On?” by Artists for Action, an international folk supergroup raising their voices against the rise of the far right. Featuring Black Umfolosi, Bruce Cockburn, Ani DiFranco, Bob Jensen, Tony McManus, Moulettes, Oysterband, Martin Simpson & more.
Watch “Ceol Ón Chré” from the upcoming album ‘Misneach’ from the Berlin meets Ireland collective Tau & The Drones of Praise. The track features contributions from Irish singer-songwriter Damien Dempsey and Pól Brennan of the legendary Irish group Clannad; they also appear in the video.
