Our Song of the Day comes from Cretan lute player George Xylouris and Australian drummer Jim White of Dirty Three. Forging is taken from their 2016 album Black Peak. Their new album ‘Mother’ is due for release on 19th January 2018 via Bella Union.
On their second in a proposed trilogy of EPs, India Electric Co demonstrate that they are out there on the cutting edge of reinterpreting traditional folk music for the modern era while never losing sight of the past.
Secretly Canadian have released a new 7″ featuring covers of two Black Sabbath songs by Jason Molina. The release also features artwork by Rhode Island artist William Schaff whose work has adorned covers of releases by the likes of Allysen Callery, Brown Bird, Okkervil River and more.
Created with the aid of a successful Kickstarter campaign, Bella Hardy’s new album is filled with a new-found freedom. If this gets anywhere the amount of airplay it deserves it could well win Hardy a host of new fans.
Finnish artist Laura Naukkarinen’s (aka Lau Nau) has released her fifth album ‘Poseidon’. A suite of luminous, world-weary songs that exist in a world of all their own, treading the line between chamber folk and experimental pop with a distinctly Scandinavian melancholy.
Bring Back Home is the fifth studio album from Ange Hardy. It is one that is yet further testament that she’s a shining beacon illuminating the byways of traditional folk for today’s landscape, you should be beating a path to its door.
For their latest album, Bu Bir Ruya, Dirtmusic team up with Turkish-psych visionary Murat Ertel from Baba Zula. Recorded in Istanbul, the album navigates hypnotic rhythms, cinematic atmospheres and dark political realities. Listen to lead track Bi De Sen Söyle (Song of the Day).
An Tara are East Clare duo Tommy Hayes and Matthew Noone. Combining percussion and sarode, a North Indian lute, their music ‘explores the spaces in-between the traditions of Irish and Indian Classical music.’ The results are magical.
On ‘Singing Ways to Feel More Junior’, Luke Daniels delivers yet another highly innovative collection. An album that is full of fascinating and meticulously crafted song from an artist with his finger on the pulse. Out Now on Gael Music.
To celebrate this year’s MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards we have a pair of tickets to giveaway for the award ceremony on Saturday 2nd December at Paisley’s Lagoon Centre. The night will be jam-packed with live performances – it will be a great night out.
Watch the new lyric video for Astronaut, from English folk artist Jeremy Tuplin….he may be the missing link between Nick Drake and ‘Space Oddity’-era Bowie. His new album ‘I Dreamt I was an Astronaut’ is out now on Folkwit Records.
This week’s show has a strong leftfield and alternative feel to it. Some of the tracks are from albums released on small labels that we love: including Okraina Records, Folklore Tapes, Reverb Worship, Burst & Bloom, Cardinal Fuzz, North Western Recordings and Mega Dodo.
