TRÚ are no ordinary folk band, and No Fixed Abode no ordinary album. Their music is dusted with a hint of magic and while it has all the energy befitting a first offering, it bears the stamp of quality usually reserved for seasoned artists.
Johanna Samuels’ debut album Excelsior! is out digitally today on Basin Rock. Arguably leaving the best to last, she’s sharing the music video for album opener “Sonny”.
Taken from Joshua Burnell’s forthcoming new EP Storm Cogs, watch the video for ‘Shelagh’s Song’, inspired by the life of Scottish singer-songwriter Shelagh McDonald, the Seventies folk singer who went missing for 30 years.
Martha Wainwright has announced her new album “Love Will Be Reborn”, her first release since 2016’s ‘Goodnight City’. Set for release on August 20th and followed by a UK Tour, she paves the way with a stunning title track single.
FolkEast is on course to return this August ft. Afro Celt Sound System, The Young’Uns, Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita, Daoiri Farrell, Drever, McCusker, Woomble, Elephant Sessions, The Shee, Gigspanner Big band, Topette!!, Trials of Cato and more.
In short, a poet-troubadour with a conscience who’s an uplifting panacea for times clearly manifesting malady above the shoulders too. Remedies are unavailable, but certainly an equivalent musical vaccination.
Our Song of the Day comes from Cork-born fearless feisty fiddler, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Clare Sands. She is joined by Steve Cooney and Tommy Sands on her outstanding new single ‘Abair Liom do Rúin (Tell Me Your Secrets)’.
Recorded at night in Highnam Woods, Gloucestershire, ‘Nightingale Soul Call’ expresses a suspended moment in time in which Adrian Freedman’s Shakuhachi flute met the nightingale, and together with Sam Lee on the shruti box, a meeting of kindred souls took place.
There is so much more to be found throughout Axacan, but the overall result is a sprawling, painstakingly created record by a progressive artist that will take many listens to fully digest. Axacan is Daniel Bachman’s most accomplished work yet.
Open and honest, When We Wander finds light and steadfastness in the new responsibilities in Jesse Terry’s life, channelling his influences but always imprinting them with his own signature. Both tender and triumphant, it’s his finest hour yet.
