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Hollow Hand, the Brighton project of Max Kinghorn-Mills, shares “I Turned My Back On The World”, the second single from fourth album “Wish Road South”, out September 4th via Loose Music / Soundly. A broken Wurlitzer and drifting synths carry a homesick reverie through distant childhood memories and the Cornish sea.
Gaspar Claus shares “Colaïdo”, the latest single from his new album “Cells”, out 25th September via InFiné. Built entirely from the sounds of his cello, the track is named after a sailboat once owned by his late father, the flamenco guitarist Pedro Soler, and rolls across slow, overlapping waves of the Mediterranean.
Biita Houdei announces her debut album “This Bed Was Made For Me”, out 18th September on Basin Rock and Father/Daughter. Lead single “The Ground Here” brings in Big Thief’s Buck Meek, moving from a parched California summer to the rivers of her Ozark home. Produced by Haley Heynderickx, Biita sewed a patch for every song as she worked; together, they became the quilt featured on the album’s cover.
Charlie Wheatley has announced “Live at the Chapel”, out 22nd September, the first instalment in a three-part series reworking folk manuscripts from the British Isles through live performance. Recorded live at Stone Nest with two double basses and viola, it holds traditional dance tunes against devotional song, drone and minimalism. The lead single, a set of three tunes, arrives today.
“Dream Me a Dream” was Tucker Zimmerman’s final recording, and while his MO was dusty, lo-fi outsider folk, his range was much bigger than those labels imply. This is an album that opens out at every turn. What shines most brightly is Zimmerman’s generosity of spirit — a fitting tribute to this most unconventional and quietly gifted of songwriters.
“and remade” is Freda D’Souza’s looping sonic poem, drawn from an installation she built as an act of resistance against enforced clock time. Written across a solstice on a Mersea houseboat and sonified through a solar-powered cassette, each digital download comes with a one-off cyanotype stop-motion film frame.
Morning Rituals & Evening Ragas is a special KLOF Mag playlist that has been quietly growing. It features over 26 hours of primarily instrumental music — 175 artists covering folk, ambient, and experimental genres. It’s long enough to play all day while you work and carry on deep into the night and the next morning.
Declan O’Rourke shares “Echo”, the lead single from his eighth album “Oceanic”, due 16 October. Produced with Jim Moginie of Midnight Oil, it’s a beefy, robust rocker — and its video offers a first look at “Almost With You”, the Australian feature in which O’Rourke makes his screen acting debut, premiering at Galway Film Fleadh on 9 July.
Skyjack’s fourth album, “Let The Sky Open Under Your Feet”, is out today on Kujua Records. The Swiss–South African quintet take the title’s image — feet on the earth, the sky opening below — and turn it into twelve tracks articulating their “deep roots into the earth with high branches reaching upward and outward”.
Our latest Off the Shelf guest is Clàrsach player Anna McLuckie, whose latest release, “The Little Winters”, was one of our recent Featured Albums of the Month. She introduces us to the book she was named after, a pair of aggressively Scottish stools from her Grandad, a map lamp cut from an old Glasgow street map, invaluable notebooks (for the boring and emotional, for songs, poems, and dreams), and more.
KLOF No. 88 brings together new and familiar names across folk, electronic and ambient experimental music. Highlights include Sari Lightman’s solo debut The Way I Saw You, Charlie Franklin’s self-titled EP, Rowena Wise ahead of Bad Things Feel Good*, Alabaster DePlume’s tour-born Dear Children EP, Helen Svoboda’s Headwater, Loma Suyo’s Paloma, Nora Stanley’s debut Glass, and Fen’s debut LP Bor.