Our Song of the Day comes from Melbourne artist Kathleen Mary Lee via her video for her new single Broken. The track is a captivating, lovelorn piece, fuelled with breathtakingly beautiful honesty. It is the first single from her second EP, to be released this year.
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan return with ‘Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars,’ building on the deep-seated natural bond between the three musicians and their total willingness to embrace each other’s artistic vision. They’re clearly not running short of ideas…one you should seek out.
As before, on Ports of Call, Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Hass make the fiddle and cello sound like they were made for each other. The absence of guests and the overall more relaxed pace on the album allows them to stretch the boundaries perhaps even more than previously.
Alex Rex (Alex Neilson) is an artist with a singular, uncompromising vision that he expresses in multifaceted and always fascinating ways. Vermillion, his solo debut, is both daring and formidable. An insight into ‘a complex and inquisitive musical mind.’
The eleventh Gate To Southwell Festival is set to be their most eclectic and entertaining festival to date with acts including Jon Boden, The East Pointers, Shelanagig, Chris Smither, Megson, Gnoss and many more. Watch our video preview.
Find The Ways is a genuinely original album. It is rare for an album to successfully bridge the gap between the contemporary and the antiquated, but Allred and Broderick do it so well that you don’t even notice the joins.
For his latest album, In Buenos Aires, the innovative Fraser Fifield headed to Argentina with bagpipes and low whistle to join three of the most highly regarded exponents of New Tango: Walther E. Castro, Quique Sinesi and Mono Hurtado.
Steamchicken are a band with attitude, and their latest offering, ‘Look Both Ways’ is a great example of their energy and style. The whole album positively fizzes with technical ability and joy.
We talk to George Nigel Hoyle (Cunning Folk) about his fascination with the ritual English landscape and his vast musical influences from Anne Briggs to Brian Eno. He also shares his fascination with ritual…”they signpost where we are & where we have come from.”
Our Song of the Day is Ruth Theodore’s toe-tapping ‘Kissing in Traffic’, watch her new animated video and don’t miss her UK tour dates which still include London, Brighton, Llandudno and Milton Keynes.
Listen to In the Wrong, by Australian alt-folk band The Royal Parks, from their forthcoming debut album Suburb Home, an album of dreamy folk songs featuring soaring three-part-harmonies.
Dan Walsh’s latest offering, Verging On The Perpendicular, is the perfect balance of authenticity and flair. Without ever ignoring the past, it points the way to an exciting future for banjo music.
