Inspired by a walk around Danebury Hill Fort in Hampshire, Danebury Rumination finds singer-songwriter Owen Tromans focusing on the cyclical nature of life and death, and presents a stoic response to the knowledge that our time on Earth is limited.

Erlend Apneseth Trio demonstrate that wildness is still possible in folk music, as is a democratic, inclusive form of experimentalism. You are unlikely to hear a more innovative album all year, or one more in touch with its roots. Salika, Molika is an avant-folk marvel.

We talk to Scottish singer and song writer Karine Polwart about The Lost Words: Spell Songs project as well as how she sees her own relationship between music, landscape and place – “Music and storytelling is key, because both are such elemental forms of human interconnection.”

Watch The Small Glories featuring Cara Luft & J D Edwards performing ‘Secondhand’ live in Concert. The song features on their new album Assiniboine & The Red which is released later this week on June 28 via Red House Records.

Pianos are being thrown away at a tremendous rate – hauled away, set on fire and their valuable heavy metal sold for scrap. Tim, Leon and their team of inspired artists, musicians and volunteers have reclaimed these unloved instruments to build the world’s first 100-seater amphitheatre made entirely from up-cycled pianos.

Nashville-based couple Scott and Kim Collins, best known as The Smoking Flowers, return with a stripped-down acoustic album, an affirmation of their shared love and the triumph over adversity, it snowballs into your heart.

Our Song of the Day is Tarn Song, the forthcoming single from Harvey Lord. The accompanying video unfolds like a Cumbrian psych-folk dream – reminiscent of the Incredible String Band and Vashti Bunyan’s pastoral sounds. 

“The Lost Words” finally reaches us in the form of Spell Songs. Composed by eight of folk’s finest contemporary talents: Karine Polwart, Seckou Keita, Julie Fowlis, Kris Drever, Jim Molyneux, Kerry Andrew, Rachel Newton and Beth Porter, the songs bring us hope for the future.

Featuring new music from 75 Dollar Bill, Siskiyou, Felix Hatfield, Doug Tielli and Calexico & Iron & Wine. Plus live recordings from Nathan Bowles Trio, Hiss Golden Messenger and Ryley Walker. All this and lots more.

The Rails, Kami Thompson and James Walbourne, release the first taste from their stunning forthcoming third album today with this immaculate slice of modern contemporary folk ‘Mossy Well’.

The quiet magic of I Feel Nothing Most Days is difficult to pin down, but in that essential unknowability, that sense of mystery, lies some of its appeal…like an instant, a snapshot of a rainy afternoon, slightly blurred, mysterious and beautiful.

While on a Hebridean road trip, Johnny decides to stay a little longer on the Isle of Lewis to catch Còig performing at Stornoway’s arts centre, An Lanntair. While the Canadian four-piece from Cape Breton are new to him he’s glad he stuck around.