Nora Brown returns with ‘Sidetack My Engine’ featuring special guests Jerron ‘Blindboy’ Paxton and Jackson Lynch, an excellent album that marks the next chapter for this accomplished performer.
Taken from his forthcoming album The Intimate Landscape, Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) has shared another dose of minimalist ambience with a visualiser for the album track Second Moon.
The Morning Trip label have repressed William Eaton’s 1978 private-press release – atmospheric recording techniques, mixed with a hint of Fahey/Takoma-lineage.
Galway’s Niamh Regan has returned with ‘Love You Senseless’, the second single off her upcoming EP, In the Meantime. It follows on from the illustrious success of RTE Choice-nominated debut album Hemet and the EP’s first single, ‘Happy Again’.
Will Varley’s ‘The Hole Around My Head’ contains some of the best material he’s written to date. It’s a magnificent album that mines diamonds of hope from the rock of despair
Watch Tabhair Dom Do Lámh, the superb new single from Irish/English singer and multi-instrumentalist Lewis Barfoot, her first release since her debut album Glenaphuca earlier this year. Don’t miss her upcoming tour in November.
Toby Hay puts down his guitar and takes to the harp for two beautiful improvised pieces recorded at his home in mid-Wales with David Ian Roberts on guitar. These two journey-like pieces will transport the listener. This is music you will constantly return to.
Watch Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan performing ‘The Parting Glass’, taken from their new album ‘Still As Your Sleeping’. The recording of this track came about following a request from Margaret Atwood. Watch and read more about it here.
On September 5th, a plaque was unveiled at 160 Park Avenue in Hull to mark the former home of the renowned folk singer, Lal Waterson. Listen to Lal, Norma & Marry Waterson & Eliza Carthy performing John Ball from 1988.
Featuring music that spans her vibrant 24-year career, Sarah McQuaid’s ‘The St Buryan Sessions’ is a wonderful, expressive and intimate live album from a consummate performer.
Afterlight is indisputably one of her very best. The former Thea Gilmore can justifiably stand back and be proud of the new woman, the new artist she has become. Long may the Afterlight shine.
Our Song of the Day comes from Glasgow-based singer songwriter Rhona Macfarlane. Watch the accompanying video to her new single ‘No Rain’, a poignant song capturing the passing of time and the power and depth of family relationships.
