With his third album ‘Maru’ due for release this month on Lost Map Records this new mini-documentary reveals a little more about the fascinating musical world of ICHI.
The Big Eyes Family Players have an uncanny ability to exist outside of the boundaries of musical eras, one that makes their blueprint such a sonically successful one. OH! finds them at the very top of their game and is perhaps their finest album to date.
Konono N°1 are back with a new album joining forces with acclaimed Angolan/Portuguese artist Batida aka Pedro Coquenão. Listen to Nlele Kalusimbiko here.
This is song-craftmanship at its very best and most beautiful. Listen to ‘Burning Sun & the Atomic Powers Within’, the title track from The Mining Co.’s debut album due out 11 march.
k.d. lang, Neko Case and Laura Veirs are to collaborate on a new album. case/lang/veirs will be released on June 17 on Anti-. Listen to the lead track Atomic Number featuring the vocals of all three!
9Bach announce their third album, to be released on 29 April 2016 via Real World Records. While Tinician commemorated stories from the past, Anian explores more contemporary themes. In a new video Lisa Jên talks about the album, watch it here.
Featuring Nancy Kerr, Martyn Joseph, Sam Carter, Maz O’Connor, Patsy Reid and Nick Cooke, Sweet Liberties are to record an album this Spring which will be performed at Folk by the Oak on 24 July 2016. Watch a video premiere of Maz O’Connor performing Broad Waters.
The Black Feathers return with their much anticipated full length debut Soaked To The Bone. This is an album to drench yourself in, long may they pour down like silver.
Paper Beat Scissors has just recorded a great session for Bob Harris’ Under The Apple Tree sessions. Watch the first song from that performance called ‘Shapes’. He is currently on tour in the UK supporting the release of his new album ‘Go On’, one of our Featured Albums of the Month.
Having already released one 10-year reunion album with Freakwater, Bloodshot Records go for the double with the first studio recordings by the Waco Brothers since 2005.
Steeped in the classic sounds of the 1960s counterculture of the USA, ‘Western Man’ wears its heart on its sleeve but avoids pastiche through Daisy House’s obvious awareness of (and influence by) contemporary musical trends.
Our Song of the Day comes from Dublin-based urban alt-folk sextet The Mariannes and their new new single The Black Diary Waltz. It pays tribute to Roger Casement; coinciding with the 1916 Easter Rising centenary celebrations.
