Our Song of the Day is Rita Jack’s Lament from Seamus Fogarty. It’s from his debut album God Damn You Mountain which is to be reissued via Lost Map Records with a bonus CD of remixes.
You Are Wolf whom we featured in session in 2011, which you can listen again to here, is to release her debut album ‘Hawk to the Hunting Gone’ in May this year via Stone Tape Recordings.
Our Song of the Day is from the wonderful voice of Nancy Wallace who has been far too quiet on the release front…so it will come as great news to many that this is from her forthcoming single.
An alternative mix this week that takes it’s title from a custom you can hear about in the mix. It has a pagan feel and features United Bible Studies, Appendix Out, Jetsam, Plinth and more.
Our Song of the Day is the wonderfully pastoral Rookery Wood from the album ‘Tyneham House’ that was jointly released by Clay Pipe Music and Second Language.
Lee Ranaldo, the guitarist and founder of Sonic Youth releases new semi-acoustic single on Primavera Sound covering songs by Neil Young and Sandy Denny.
Will Varley shows off his creative 8-bit skills on his latest home-made video for Weddings & Wars which features on his latest release As the Crow Flies.
Edinburgh based band Meursault plan to had to SXSW in 2014 followed by a US East coast tour. To help them along the way they are looking to fans to help crowd-fund the trip.
Plinth, one of the many aliases of Dorset-based composer Michael Tanner, is releasing Wintersongs as a very limited edition, mastered and pressed to vinyl for the first time. A real gem!
The première screening of ‘The Bridge Rising’ is a major cultural – and political – event. An evening of film, music, discussion and debate in celebration of Scotland’s most celebrated campaigning victory of recent times.
Those that prefer the more progressive approach to Scottish traditional music would do well to check the new compositional debut from Damian Helliwell titled Metta which features a glowing cast of talent.
I feel like a latecomer introducing French artist Scarlett O’Hanna who is described as a format-killer composer, singer and producer with eclectic sensitivity…but she will make waves this year.
