Watch part one of a short film on the making of Ulster trio TRÚ’s debut album ‘No Fixed Abode’. It also features Tommy Sands performing ‘County Down’ which TRÚ cover in their own unique and magical way.
Staran is both an album and the name adopted by a new collective formed by five of the most exciting young talents on the Glasgow folk scene. It’s a gem and an album truly more than the sum of its parts.
Mind Maintenance is less about its individual tracks as it is about being a continual, looping listening experience. There is something wholly magnetising about this rare music and its insistently repetitive nature that is hard to switch from. Enchanting, exciting, beautifully performed music.
Our Song of the Day comes from guitarist and composer Cameron Knowler with ‘Puerto Suelo’, the lead track from his forthcoming debut solo album Places of Consequence.
Watch Italian duo She Owl performing their new live version of “Paper Birds,” recorded late one night during a recent lockdown in Italy. The video showcases a new, more meditative arrangement of the song on which the striking contralto vocals of Jolanda Moletta are front and centre.
There’s a rugged beauty to Elephant Micah’s Vague Tidings that reflects the Alaskan wilderness…something that not only reflects the northern locale, but the people populating it.
Listen to the 10th Anniversary Edition of Little Arrow’s debut 2011 album ‘Music, Masks & Poems’, released as a beautiful tribute to frontman, William Hughes, who was sadly lost to cancer in December 2018.
‘Dignity’ – a Livestream celebration of 80 years of Bob Dylan live from Dublin (Monday 24 May) is to feature Lisa Hannigan, Cinder Well, FeliSpeaks, Peter Broderick, Brigid Mae Power, Paul Brady, Mick Flannery, Susan O’Neill and more.
Following the recent release of her debut EP, Atlaness, Vicky Gray has released a music video for the lead track, Teif on da Lum…a beautiful collaboration with Shetland film-maker, JJ Jamieson.
The first-ever digital edition of Edinburgh Tradfest was a great success, reaching traditional music fans in America and Australia, as well as across Scotland and the UK.
While David John Morris’s lyrics have always flowed from a deeply spiritual place, they have never sounded quite like those on ‘Monastic Love Songs’…they stir with transformative promise with the constitution of his inner country, as Cohen would say, vividly evoking his natural surroundings.
Johanna Samuels’ ‘Excelsior!’ really comes into its own through the honesty with which she discusses isolation and vulnerability. While musically, she’s not attempting to break new ground she may help accomplish something far greater: a kinder world with more compassionate songwriting.
