Heirlooms & Hearsay Nomad Songs is more than a collection of songs, it’s a recording of possibilities, a showcase for what Roxanne de Bastion’s voice is capable of as they dance between modern folk and a more rock-tinged sound.
William Matheny makes his debut with Strange Constellations, a solid collection of roots rock and countrified pop. Read our review and listen to his cover of Jason Molina’s ‘Just Be Simple’, a bonus track on the UK digital edition.
The beauty of ‘An Idea in Everything’ lies in its unhurried and profoundly mundane messages. Challenging art this album may be, but it is high and beautiful and superb, unlike anything I’ve ever heard. A very impressive achievement.
Watch Dan Wilde’s new video for ‘Abusing My Position’, from his 2nd studio album ‘With Fire In Mind.’ Filmed in the Cambridge Museum of Technology, set in the thick of the industrial revolution. Dan is on tour now.
Kentucky native and American Primitive guitarist Mark Fosson has been making music for nearly fifty years now. Solo Guitar, to be released on Drag City, finds him focusing on the austerity of the guitar, plain and simple, to bring out the music.
Isembard’s Wheel’s debut album ‘Common Ground’ offers more of the band’s wild, inventive, visionary “folk and then some”, which proves both highly infectious and highly irresistible.
Idaho’s Hillfolk Noir return with Junkerpunch, a ramshackle rural clatter that is given life by guitar, double bass, banjo and washboard. All beautifully recorded by analogue wizard Mike Coykendall at his Blue room Studio in Portland, Oregon.
The Poetry and Lyrics Festival returns to Kings Place in June, celebrating the inexorable link between music and verse. Including Jackie Oates, Nest Collective, Don Paterson & PJ Harvey, Kayo Chingonyi, Kristin McClement, Murray Lachlan Young and more.
Nathaniel Mann’s latest project – SF Cody: Rushmoor Epic, is based on the life and antics of Wild West showman and early pioneer of manned flight, Samuel Franklin Cody. A new video provides a great overview of the project, an album is in the works for later this year.
Whilst following the footsteps of earlier East-West musical blendings from the 70’s, Phoenician Drive sound like no other. Listen to ‘Two Coins for the Boatman’, our Song of the Day, taken from their debut EP which is out now.
Watch the first music video from Blato Zlato, a New Orleans-based Balkan band. Miatalo Lenche Iabalka is a humorous Bulgarian folk tune about a girl who throws an apple into the air and declares that whoever catches it is the person she will marry.
On Itinerant Arias, Christopher Paul Stelling sees the storm coming, but his songs, which come from a wide range of unlikely inspirations, are there to provide a bridge over troubled waters.
