We interview Peter Knight and John Spiers about their new album, Both in a Tune, the excitement of free improvisation, comparing playing to 90 minutes playing as a midfielder and the beauty of being lost in a tune.
Haitian-American artist Leyla McCalla, announces her new album ”Breaking the Thermometer’ and shares video for new single ‘Vini Wè’, inspired by the love story of Radio Haiti station owner and journalist Jean Dominique and his wife and fellow journalist Michéle Montas.
Listen in full to The Wave Pictures “Winter” EP; five songs that make up the next instalment from their forthcoming double album “When The Purple Emperor Spreads His Wings”, set for release in May and supported by a UK Tour.
Dublin-based singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Inni-K turns her attention to the rich heritage of Irish traditional sean-nós singing on Iníon, an album of tremendous understatement, power and beauty.
Recorded over two years, Dean Owens’ “Sinner’s Shrine” finally emerges out of the sand and desert nights with its heart beating and warmth radiating from its musical core, go and make your pilgrimage.
Beguilingly sung, melodic, warm, tender, open and insightful in its vortex of emotions, Kate Ellis’ ‘Spirals’ is an early contender for the year’s best-of lists.
Walton Folk Festival is returning to its usual May bank holiday slot for 2022 featuring Wildwood Kin, Polly Paulusma, Angeline Morrison, The Outside Track, Ellie Gowers and Jack Cookson.
Warm, relaxed, bittersweet, sad and joyful in equal measure, recorded two years before 2020’s Notes From Vinegar Hill, Herman Dune’s ‘Santa Cruz Gold’ stands as an often thematic companion piece, and its first-time physical release is a very welcome addition to the library.
There was a definite buzz around RURA’s Celtic Connections appearance and their collaborative EP launch gig featuring an extended band and guests: Duncan Chisholm, Julie Fowlis, Hannah Rarity, Ross Ainslie and Michael McGoldrick. It couldn’t have been better.
The Gigspanner Big Band have announced a collaborative project with Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path, the Sunday Times best-selling memoir of walking the South West Coast Path. Saltlines is a Portrait of the South West Coast Path in Old Songs and New Words.
It’s as if Sam Weber didn’t so much construct Get Free as deconstruct it. In the process, he has made it an almost perfect collection of folk music that seems to play against all the rules. Which is what makes it an album worth hearing.
The songs on ‘Wish For You’ form a maternal love letter from the heart, something Allison Moorer describes as spirit music. While the EP may resonate strongly with those who’ve shared similar experiences, it will also be welcome among admirers of her bewitching brand of Americana.
