Our Song of the Day comes from the debut album of Hairetis Harper – Lute player & vocalist Yiagos Hairetis (Crete) and experimental harpist Maria-Christina Harper (London). One of the most rewarding listens I’ve heard in a while.
Drag City re-issue Bill Stone’s ‘Stone’, a folk private pressing from 1969. Listen to the latest single “Purple”, compared to Mark Fry, or Pearls Before Swine in their more contemplative moments.
Including members of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra it’s a curious, but entirely engaging mix of musicians on Songs of the Sea, a moving, sincere album, and one that promises interesting things to come from Green.
Lael Neale shares self-directed video for single ‘Blue Vein’, taken from Acquainted With Night – her full-length, Sub Pop debut released 19th February 2021 and a testament to poetic devotion.
Produced on a complicated diet of bygone Lebanese torch songs, 1980’s Russian Aerobics records and Australian Punk…Jane Weaver shares video for Heartlow, the opening track of her new album Flock.
William the Conqueror announce the release of new album Maverick Thinker and share lead single ‘Quiet Life’ – a track that really blossoms and carries you along. It holds great promise.
Watch recently discovered live footage of Lüüp, the brainchild of flautist Stelios Romaliadis, performing their genre-defying ‘Meadow Rituals’ from 2013 featuring feat. Lisa Isaksson & David Svedmyr.
Watch Laura Veirs video for ‘Freedom Feeling’ from her latest album My Echo. The video stars and is choreographed by aerial hoop dancer Story Lowe who Laura met by chance about a year ago.
Tina Loeffler is a singer songwriter based in the North of the Black Forest in Germany. Listen to her beautiful new single Through the Ice, the first from a new EP planned for release in March 2021.
Keeled Scales sign Lafayette, Louisiana musician, Renée Reed. Listen to her outstanding new single and our Song of the Day ‘Fast One’, taken from her self-titled forthcoming debut.
TRADarrr are mining a rich seam of traditional songs in their search for material, but it is the flair and imagination going into the arrangements that set them apart as proven here.
