Italian avant-garde percussionist and composer Lino Capra Vaccina releases new album described as a masterpiece. It features a number of contributions including English Dark Folk pioneers Michael Tanner and Alison Cotton.
Celebrating their 30th anniversary in 2018, the Levellers will be releasing an acoustic album ‘We The Collective’ on March 9th, produced by the legendary John Leckie and featuring a string section.
Roots in the Round is a Nashville style songwriters circle featuring award-winning singer/songwriter Robert Vincent, acclaimed Scottish troubadour Dean Owens and special guests Worry Dolls.
Les Filles de Illighada are a Tuareg female-led avant-rock group and Eghass Malan is their first studio album. Hypnotic guitar riffs, driving rhythm, and polyphonic resonant vocals combine to create organic sound, that is both timeless and natural.
Lilly Hiatt’s Trinity Lane which was released in the US in summer 2017 to widespread critical acclaim is to have its UK release on February 2, 2018, via New West Records. It will be followed by a UK tour in April.
It has been twenty years since the passing of English composer and multi-instrumentalist Simon Jeffes (the founder of Penguin Cafe Orchestra). To mark the Anniversary, Erased Tapes have reissued Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s final studio album ‘Union Cafe’, including a vinyl edition for the first time.
PicaPica features the dual talents of Josienne Clarke and Samantha Whates accompanied by Adam Beattie and Sonny Johns. Spring & Shade is their new EP, a short but beautiful offering from two very talented singers who have no shortage of experience in creating dreamy harmonies.
This week sees the release of Snorri Helgason’s new album Margt býr í þokunni which has been four years in the making. The 10 songs which make up the album are all based on Icelandic folktales and traditional Icelandic folklore.
Mancunian Americana band The Travelling Band have unveiled a vibrant and uplifting new video for their forthcoming single Mopping Forwards due for release just before Christmas on 22 December.
For her fifth studio album Cusp (out 9 Feb, AllPoints), Alela Diane taps into the nurture, strength and emotion of motherhood, a sentiment that travels movingly through the eye of a lens on her new video for Emigré, our Song of the Day.
Legendary singer-songwriter, Ralph McTell, has re-recorded his timeless song, ‘Streets of London’, with a choir made up of clients from Crisis – the national charity for homeless people – and guest vocalist Annie Lennox.
This week’s Folk Show features new music from Melrose Quartet, Neil Young, Ross Ainslie, Band Of Burns, James Patrick Gavin, The Wailin’ Jennys and more.
