As songwriters go, nobody puts quite as much on the table as Neilson. In a live setting such raw experiences are both valuable and, in this case, hugely rewarding. Memory, Speak is a moment in time, a document of Alex Rex at their most formidable and fragile.
Sub Rosa release collaboration between the late Ghédalia Tazartès and Rhys Chatham. “…the trace of a rare moment in a Parisian garden, it also summons a ghost, that of a loved one that is gone, and of his voice, which is fully alive here.”
Josienne Clarke takes a more upbeat route on her new EP “I Promised You Light” following a fan pleading with her to write something more positive. Watch the accompanying video for lead single “Driving At Night” as she delivers on that promise.
Fresh from receiving the Musician of The Year award at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards on Saturday, listen to Iona Fyfe’s new single ‘Poor Ditching Boy’, a Scots translation of the Richard Thompson song which she also talks to us about.
EFDSS return once again with one of our favourite video series “In The Archive With…”. Their guest is Peggy Seeger who gets to hunt out some choice folk music from their archive. Peggy has also just announced her first Farewell Tour for Spring 2022.
The debut winter-themed EP by Milkweed is something of an outlier…They seem intent on reviving the more outlandish, eccentric traditions of folk music, where old and new religions intermingle and where strange, bewitching sounds proliferate. This can only be a good thing.
Rowan:Morrison have announced their new album ‘Bride of the Wintertide’, the third album in their trilogy of winter-themed albums. Listen to the album opener “The Snow it Melts the Soonest”.
Alongside a UK & EU tour, Portland-based country-soul group The Delines, featuring Willy Vlautin and Amy Boone, return with their third studio album, The Sea Drift, in February. Watch their video for their irresistible retro-soul single ‘Past The Shadows’ which is released tomorrow.
Aisha Badru doesn’t teach and doesn’t preach, she simply sings her truths. That we can learn from the lessons of “The Way Back Home” only serves to make her messages that much more important.
While London-based Treetop Flyers stay comfortably within their established sound for their fourth album Old Habits, it is veined with affecting understated new tricks to produce a sublime experience.
Elena Setién has shared the new video for single “In This Short Life,” taken from her forthcoming new album Unfamiliar Minds. The song’s lyrics are taken from Emily Dickinson’s poem of the same name…a plainspoken yet profound contemplation on the brevity of life.
The Arts Council-backed Freedom To Roam: The Rhythms of Migration Tour is announced For February/March 2022, featuring Catrin Finch, Eliza Marshall, Jackie Shave, Dónal Rogers and Kuljit Bhamra.
