We have the pleasure in bringing you the UK video premiere of Beautifully Crazy, the opening track from the JP Hoe’s new 2015 album Hideaway. It features JP cycling through a busy street where life gently unfolds in slow-motion.
Prior to her amazing Cambridge Folk Festival performance we were lucky enough to grab some time with Gretchen Peters. She provides a great insight into her songwriting career and tells us what makes UK audiences different.
Fire Records announce Half Japanese re-sign and are currently recording a new album. November will bring the final volume of the extensive four-part Half Japanese box sets “Volume 4: 1997-2001”.
Central São Paulo’s Bixiga 70 announce their third album ‘III’ – shape-shifting contemporary afro-funk, Moroccan cumbia, spiritual jazz, Cuban blaxploitation, Arabian dub, Malinké drumming, Angolan guitar music, traditional bamboo fife bands and more.
Fernando Moresi Haberman is a fingerstyle guitarist who has an interesting history. Currently residing in Barcelona ‘Estudias #1’ is his first EP inspired by the likes of John Fahey, Robbie Basho, and William Tyler.
Minneapolis band Magic Castles bring their psychedelic pop & sun-drenched west coast folk-rock to the UK this month culminating in a performance at the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia.
Our Song of the Day is from Phaedra, the solo project of Ingvlid Langgård whose debut album “The Sea” was released in 2011 drawing comparisons to Vashti Bunyan, Elizabeth Fraser and Nico. Watch her latest video for Lightbeam, taken from Blackwinged Night, the second album realease in her trilogy.
Villagers unveil new video for Hot Scary Summer from the latest album Darling Arithmetic. Plus Conor O’Brien is re-joining the cast of In Dreams: David Lynch Revisited for dates in November.
Marry Waterson returns with a brand new album made in collaboration with David A. Jaycock. Two Wolves is released on 20 November from which we have the pleasure of premiering ‘Sing Me Into Your Tune’. Listen to it here and find out more about the album.
Reinventing Richard: The Songs of Richard Fariña is a new album from Plainsong as a tribute to, and celebration of, Richard’s music, fifty years after his tragic and untimely death. Read our album review, plus we have ten signed copies of the album to giveaway.
As Canada’s Great Lake Swimmers prepare for their imminent, major European tour Tony Dekker, the band’s singer and songwriter, takes us through a little history and the unusual recording techniques they used in the making of A Forest Of Arms, their superb sixth album.
We have the first in a special four-part feature from Ange Hardy in which she reveals four tracks from her new album Esteesee exclusively to FRUK readers. Listen to and read about the title track Esteesee here.
