An impressive step up from her debut, Rachel Baiman’s “Cycles” is bristling with confidence. Open and honest in its feelings, the album offers an insight into the dynamic of reconciling ambitions with the needs of a personal life.
The enticing combination of Ó hEadhra’s sensitive playing and NicChoinnich’s delightfully sweet vocals, rightly identified as one of the finest Gaelic singers on the scene today, is hard to resist. Càirdeas is a rather gorgeous album, a genuinely soothing and captivating listen.
Go By Feel is the much-anticipated debut by The Hello Darlins. With their mix of Canadian and American influences, they call their sound North Americana; you might just settle for spellbinding.
Justin Sullivan’s “Surrounded” is an album you need to spend time with…there’s a depth of emotion, despair and hope, darkness and light that captures both the isolation of lockdown but also the sense of a universal bond that it has awoken.
Listen to our latest Folk Show featuring Katherine Priddy, The Breath, Joshua Burnside and Laura Quirke, Peter Doran and Haley Heynderickx, Adrian Crowley, TRÚ, Fishclaw, Alula Down, HAV & Iona Fyfe, Little Arrow and Khasi-Cymru Collective.
Alula Down share their journey through the year via Postcards from Godley Moor – the latest in the series, Spring 2021, is released today and they have written a personal piece which reflects on their music and their deepening reciprocal relationship with the natural world.
Ulster trio TRÚ talk us through their new album ‘No Fixed Abode’, offering a brilliant insight into each of the songs on their new album. It features some great stories and background…including mythology, changelings, faeries and Japanese folklore.
Watch the accompanying video for ‘The Alabama’, the exceptionally moving new album single from HAV, featuring the award-winning Scots singer Iona Fyfe…a beckoning beacon of light for their new album.
Besides the fascinating history of Graham Rorie’s ‘The Orcadians of Hudson Bay’, it’s also a suite of music that ranks amongst the best that’s recently come out of the Glasgow melting pot.
The Knoydart Songwriting Retreat offer five-day immersive songwriting retreats in what’s regarded as Scotland’s last great wilderness. Jon Boden heads up their first in September 2021 which promises to be an inspirational, magical and unforgettable week.
The release of ‘The Indigenous Afro-Jazz Sounds of Philip Tabane and his Malombo Jazzman’ was a seminal one, expanding the frontiers of African music. Reissued and remastered here on vinyl, it’s an exceptionally rewarding listen which offers subtle nuances on each repeated play.
Seafoam Green, the Irish songwriting duo Dave O’Grady and Muireann McDermott Long, deliver some outstanding classic-sounding rock n’ soul on ‘For Something To Say’, their latest single from ‘Martin’s Garden’, their new album, out now on Mellowtone Records.
