After several years of silence, LA marks the return of Kathryn Locke, a strongly recommended set. For music to be the true voice of a performer is almost a cliché. Here it is a fact. Welcome back, Kathryn.
Featuring Katherine Priddy, Adrian Freedman, Dana Sipos, Mick Flannery & Susan O’Neill, The Owl Service, JP Harris, Lunatraktors, Maz O’Connor, David Crosby feat Sarah Jarosz, Joshua Burnside & Laura Quirke, Francesca Ter-Berg, Ravi Shankar and more.
Since 2012 members of Shooglenifty have been regularly collaborating with musicians of Rajasthan, they have just launched a crowdfunding campaign and prize draw to raise funds for the Rajasthani Coronavirus Relief Fund. There are some excellent prizes.
The Owl Service return with ‘Rise Up Rise Up’ a veritable treasure trove. There are more ideas and influences packed into these six tracks than many artists manage in a whole album.
Cameron Knowler’s first full-length solo album features fourteen unhurried yet concise vignettes that are quietly adventurous and unusual. It’s an assured album with Cameron’s playing giving the music a certain charm and undeniable power.
London alt-folk septet Ringlefinch are definitely one of my favourite discoveries of the year. These are tall tales to be recounted over and over with a smile on the face and a glass of Peak District craft beer in your hand.
After winning ‘Best Original Song of The Year’ at the RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards, Mick Flannery and Susan O’Neill announce collaborative album ‘In The Game’ and share the first single and video ‘Chain Reaction’.
David Crosby shares two knockout collaborative singles from his forthcoming new album ‘For Free’ featuring an incredible Joni Mitchell cover with Sarah Jarosz and a co-write with Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen.
Listen to ‘Two Dark Horses’, the deeply poetic new single from Anna Tivel which will feature on her forthcoming new album Blue World, to be released next month.
Like you’ve never heard her before…Maz O’Connor blossoms into her alter-ego “vulpes” with her new single ‘Soho’, a melancholic hymn to London’s iconic West End…a place transformed from a place of eccentricity and independent spirit to a corporate void.
What Jesse Marchant has done with Antelope Running is nothing short of extraordinary. The soul of a poet, in the guise of a songwriter, creating music that is timeless. This is his moment. Do not miss it.
