Today sees the release of Simmerdim: Curlew Sounds, a unique double album, inspired by one of the UK’s most iconic and endangered birds, the Eurasian curlew. Featuring The Unthanks, Emily Barker, Cosmo Sheldrake & Talvin Singh – as well as project curator, Merlyn Driver.
The Imagined Village original lineup of Billy Bragg, Eliza and Martin Carthy, Simon Emmerson, Johnny Kalsi, Sheema Mukherjee, Jackie Oates, Andy Gangadeen, Simon Richmond and cellist Barney Morse Brown will reunite for a rare appearance at this year’s FolkEast.
Watch the accompanying video to Josh Geffin’s new single, ‘Hold On To The Light’; set in the stunning landscape of Pembrokeshire, West Wales. It’s also the title track of his forthcoming EP.
In support of their magnificent third album Nine Waves, we caught up with brothers Brían and Diarmuid MacGloinn of Ye Vagabonds to discuss the record’s songs, ancient Irish legend, politics and sexism in traditional songs, and why buoyancy is likely in their genes.
Musically relaxed, melodically infectious, lyrically witty and insightful in equal measure: in other words, precisely what you’d expect of and want from a Steve Forbert album.
Taken from their new album Narrow Line, Mama’s Broke share a humorous new video for ‘How It Ends’ – a breezy fiddle-led ballad that is an out-and-out relationship break up song.
Neil Young’s 1974 Bottom Line concert – Citizen Kane Jr. Blues – is released as part of the Neil Young Official Bootleg Series. Watch the accompanying album trailer.
On A Shadow Falls Over New Brighton, M G Boulter takes the intrinsically familiar and makes it fresh, vital and poetic. The haunting potency of nostalgia lingers long here. It’s an evocative and entirely hypnotic blend.
London’s own Miraculous Mule announce their first album since 2017’s critically lauded ‘Two Tonne Testimony’ with their haunting take on old traditional song ‘O Death’ accompanied by a spectrally beautiful video by Swiss artist Stéphanie Cousins.
Knockengorroch Festival, Scotland’s longest-running greenfield festival, returns next week with its long-awaited 2020 line-up and new additions for 2022 including Afro Celt Sound System, Newen Afrobeat, L’Entourloop, Kel Assouf, Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton, Callum Easter, The Poozies and more.
MC Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger) stretches his wings on Revelators Sound System, a new collaborative project with Cameron Ralston. Watch the video made by Moses Sun and Bill Jones to accompany ‘George the Revelator’ that was composed the day after George Floyd was murdered.
In this tiny, rural Swedish town, on an island in the Baltic Sea, amidst medieval defence walls and Viking ruins, Victor Mucho began to discover who he was. Moonlight in Visby is a soundtrack to the stillness and isolation that enveloped him.
