London-based singer and multi-instrumentalist Gary Lover, the alter ego of Gareth Hoskins – singer with cult London band Tangerines, talk us through his debut album Songs of Fortune, Songs of Pain, due for release via cult label Some Other Planet records on 28th May 2021.
On ‘Swallow Me’, the latest EP from Scottish songstress Rachel Sermanni, the songs are a meditative collection influenced by her passage into motherhood…she sings to the rhythm of life being lived, with songs excavated from the depths of human emotion
With a focus on the vivacity and legacy of the Shetland tradition, Atlaness is a handsome, and thoroughly delightful listen on which Gray proves to be a talented fiddler, composer, and arranger in her own right.
Aidan Moodie shares his video for ‘Old Yew’, his second single (out today), which continues his attempts to twist and distort away from what might be expected of folk song. Refreshingly original and engaging.
Brinkworth’s sophomore record touches on different themes that come with staying put – the songs fit around their creator like a second skin, and he delivers them with a natural ease that comes only from artists that have honed their craft through experience.
“The Lost Mystique of Being in the Know” is a surprise release from Rising Appalachia that finds them at their most improvisational – one of the most intoxicating musical experiences you’ll have this year.
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.
