On the latest video from Stealing Sheep for Apparition they head into the British Countryside for a spot of Morris dancing. It’s a beautiful video also featuring some other folkloric appearances.
Michael Chapman’s latest release ‘Fish’ is a beautifully constructed album. It’s a delightfully un-sanitised recording of a master guitarist completely at ease with his playing.
Our Song of the Day is the debut single from Jiggy. ‘Laethanta Saoire’ is a tune that was composed in the 90s by the legendary guitarist Steve Cooney. Although the band have played it many times it has never been recorded or released… until now that is!
Vancouver-based band The Sumner Brothers return with their fifth album, The Hell In Your Mind. A musically and lyrically dark and dense affair that, if not quite in the 16 Horsepower league of intensity, is still a raw and exposed nerve.
Iain Morrison has unveiled his new video for Eas, the title track of his latest album. It was filmed in Taobh a Chaolais, South Uist, Iain also hails from Scotland’s Outer Hebrides.
Richard Hawley unveils new video for ‘I Still Want You’, the second single from his latest album ‘Hollow Meadows’, a song which sees him at his most recognisably vulnerable and romantic. On October 22nd Hawley will undertake a 15-date tour of the UK and Ireland.
Blues Run the Game is a new film by producer and director Damien Dupont about the life the cult American folk troubadour Jackson C. Frank. It features interviews with the likes of Wizz Jones and the late John Renbourn. Watch a clip here.
Brown has been quoted as saying he’s searching for a new way to say the same things. Whether he’s succeeding or not is somewhat irrelevant given the quality and beauty of the songs on Slow Light, which must be considered a candidate for those end-of-year ‘best of’ lists. Make sure it’s on yours.
With her new single ‘Alternate Reality’ out today (also our Song of the Day) Rob managed to catch up with Dutch-English singer/songwriter Gitta de Ridder for one of our ‘photo / interview’ features in which he spoke to Gitta about her new single and forthcoming album.
Joy of Living is a Tribute album to Ewan MacColl which features performances from an all-star cast including Waterson:Carthy, The Unthanks, Dick Gaughan, Martin Simpson and Jack Steadman & Jamie MacColl performing ‘The Young Birds’, our Song of the Day.
Like panning for gold, Stevenson and his producer Mike Scott (Waterboys) have pored over the contents of Freddie’s heart, washed away any excess and conjured small but perfectly formed gems from the stuff of life. And how they sparkle.
Barely, as the title suggests, is a stripped down affair with guest including Irish folk singer Mary Dillon. As well as suggesting something that’s hardly there, barely also means without disguise or concealment. As such, this is Barely Brilliant.
