Before dropping his 100th album, Ashley Hutchings releases Ninety-nine Impressions, a spoken-word album with musical accompaniment from the likes of Blair Dunlop, Jacob Stoney and more. It’s an exceptional album and quite unlike anything he’s ever released before.
The artist previously known as Thea Gilmore announces a new beginning as Afterlight. Taken from her forthcoming debut album, watch the accompanying video for her powerful lead single ‘Of All The Violence I Have Known’, it’s quite unlike anything we’ve heard before.
Don’t miss the livestream this evening from Dublin-based duo Saint Sister with Lisa Hannigan & Crash Ensemble. Also showing on Folk Radio UK’s Facebook page.
Watch the video for “One Too Many Mornings”, Jason McNiff’s new single and reimagining of a Bob Dylan favourite. It’s also the first track from a covers album he is currently in the process of making.
Listening to the sharply directed words and empathetic sentiments on this unassumingly lovely album, there is little doubt that Murray McLauchlan is already wide awake, and his hourglass keeps perfect timing.
Their most accessible album yet, The Little Unsaid’s “Lick The Future’s Lips” is an album of variegated musical moods and songs that peer into the gloom but also spark a flicker of light in the potential to change both the world and ourselves.
His first new material in three year’s, Will Varley returns on October 15, with The Hole Around My Head, listen to his lead single “Pushing Against Us”.
On David Kitt’s “20”, he has lovingly rerecorded a score of his favourite songs. As demonstrated throughout, Kitt is a master of his craft and while this is essentially a career retrospective, it is a stunning musical document in its own right.
The line-up on ‘I Am of Ireland’, reads like a who’s who of the mainly Irish but also Irish American and British folk music world. There’s plenty of enjoyable music here and if it guides you back to Yeats’ poetry, well, that’s a worthwhile bonus.
What makes Willing so special is the way Lady Nade refuses to take the obvious steps – she also sings beautifully and has a band that understands exactly what she needs and they deliver 100%.
We chat with internationally acclaimed artist David Suff about his new book “Walking on Skylark Ridge” – part nature diary, part autobiography, this collection of writing and drawings documents our relationship with the local natural world through one year.
Our Song of the Day comes from composer and performer Antoni O’Breskey with “Eighteen Years Old”. Taken from his forthcoming album ‘Blessed Sadness’, it features a talented array of musicians including the enchanting vocals of his daughter Consuelo Nerea Breschi of Varo.
