Alex Gallacher

Watch the video for ‘Midnight Circle’, the new single from Inezona, the alias Swiss-based singer, percussionist and guitarist Ines Brodbeck – also featuring Frederyk Rotter. It’s an epic lead single and an exhilarating delight to watch and listen to.

Anna Tivel shares her new single “American Novella” – her expressive vocals are blissful as ever as she unravels her beautiful, almost prose-like verses, which once more highlight how bewitching and poetic a songwriter she truly is.

Amelia Baker, aka Cinder Well (our current Artist of the Month), has shared a live video for Overgrown which features on her new album ‘Cadence’. The session was captured at last year’s Quiet Lights Festival in Cork, Ireland by the magic eye of Myles O’Reilly.

Read our preview of this year’s FolkEast Festival featuring artists from England, Scotland, Wales, Canada and Australia and from their own corner of the world, East Anglia.

The Colours Of Rubab, a newly commissioned album from Worlds within Worlds featuring the music of Gulab Afridi, accompanied by Murad Afridi on tabla. Listen to the lead track, Raag Kirwani.

As it’s the weekend and the sun is out, I feel a double helping is in order. So here are two new videos for songs from the excellent ‘The Portable Herman Düne Vol. 2.’

Today marks the release of Brìghde Chaimbeul’s ‘Carry Them with Us’ which features Colin Stetson. Watch her new video for ‘Pìobaireachd Nan Eun | The Birds’, filmed on the Isle of Skye.

We have another helping from our Lost in Transmission mix series, including new music from: Cinder Well, Dom Flemons, Nico Paulo, Jude Brothers, Spencer Cullum, Sluice, Josienne Clarke, Anna St. Louis, Ther, Haamusoittajat, Danny Paul Grody, Emma Tricca, Me Lost Me, Fruit Bats and more.

Directed by Sarah V Burns and Alex Sherratt, Dom Flemons has shared the music video for ‘Traveling Wildfire’, the title track of his new album, also one of our Featured Albums of the Month.

Ulster trio TRÚ announce their forthcoming new album ‘Eternity Near’ and share their music video for their lead single ‘Long Black Veil’. The video is a small masterpiece, casting this classic song in a new contemporary light.

I heard ‘floral and full’ for the first time today, and for over nine minutes, I was completely transported by Brooklyn, NY-based improviser, composer, and percussionist, Lesley Mok and her chamber ensemble.

What To Do, How To Live? is the debut album from Lakiko, sung almost entirely in Bosnian using a vocal technique from the Sevdalinka tradition. The release is accompanied by a short film, Lakiko – A Hybrid Idea, directed by Manfred Borsch which premieres on Folk Radio today.