Alex Gallacher

Ahead of their European tour, The Saxophones share their new EP ‘All There Is’ featuring some low-key, blissful alternative versions of songs from their latest album ‘To Be A Cloud’.

Rachel Sermanni has shared a beautifully inspiring documentary on the making of her new album Dreamer Awake – “The undercurrent prayer of Dreamer Awake is in the title. Wake UP and begin dreaming a new way through this world.”

In July 2022, John Blek was commissioned to write a suite of songs about the city of Dresden. Joined by German musicians Filip Sommer (Viola) and Moritz Brümmer (Cello), watch his video for The City Sleeps, from his forthcoming EP: Digressions #3 – In Dresden.

Watch Ye Vagabonds’ full-length Nine Waves film project which presents a visual postcard of the sound world that the album inhabits, primarily based within a derelict building in Dublin and on location on the island of Arranmore, off the coast of Donegal.

John Francis Flynn shares his new single ‘Willie Crotty’ and its video, directed by Ruth Clinton and Cormac Dermody (from Lankum). It was recorded in a bedroom using the unlikely combination of a clarinet, a handheld radio, a Casio SK1, a harmonica and an effects pedal.

A Winter Union (Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage, Gilmore & Roberts and Jade Rhiannon), announce their new album, Winter Tour and premiere their video for ‘Minstrels’ on which they set to music Wordsworth’s poem about the rigours of music-making in the depths of the British winter.

Natascha Rogers is the latest signing to the French imprint No Format! Watch the video for her serene and perfectly formed ‘Aniafa’, in which she urges us to rediscover the power of feminine energy that gives balance and harmony to nature.

Collaborator, fiddler and balladeer from Liverpool, Mikey Kenney’s latest single and video, ‘Dandelion’, is an uplifting, beautiful song, filled with some lovely moments – and quite unlike anything he has done before.

Irish songwriter Oisin Leech, of The Lost Brothers shares his debut solo single and video, ‘October Sun’, produced and recorded by acclaimed Brooklyn artist Steve Gunn. The track features Portland-based musicians M Ward and Tony Garnier.

Brooklyn guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer Steve Gunn has announced a string of solo UK tour dates on which he will also be joined by the incredible Brigid Mae Power.

Dutch lute player and composer Jozef Van Wissem announces details of his forthcoming album ‘The Night Dwells in the Day’, and shares his first single and video “The Call of the Deathbird”, featuring stirring and enveloping guest vocals from Hilary Woods.

Tashi Dorji’s 2012 cassette-only release Guitar Improvisations is to be released on vinyl for the first time. Watch the new video for Improvisations I – Playing purely experimentally, he inhabits the now, increasing the elements in his play and carefully building a hypnotic whole.