Alex Gallacher

Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actress Fatoumata Diawara has shared a new video for ‘Blues’ featuring world-renowned pianist Roberto Fonseca. Fatoumata calls on the djinn spirits, protectors of our family, community and country to thank them for their protection.

Taken from his forthcoming new album ‘One Evening and Other Folk Songs’, Buck Curran has shared his new single ‘Black is the Colour’ – channelling early Pentangle, it’s quite unlike anything he has done before.

Ryan Gustafson of The Dead Tongues announces the release of two new albums on Psychic Hotline: Body of Light and I Am a Cloud and shares the two title track videos. The album features performances by Jenn Wasner, Mat Davidson, Joe Westerlund and more.

Taken from their forthcoming new album Swallowtail, listen to Marisa Anderson and Jim White’s new single ‘Peregrine’, a gorgeous slow-burner that highlights the duo’s almost effortless synchronicity

Norwegian singer and composer Susanna announces her new album, Meditations on Love, and shares its lead single, “Everyone Knows.” Watch the accompanying self-directed video, filmed and edited by Jonas Mailand, that explores the idea of feeling alone while being together.

Ahead of their UK tour, Charm Of Finches (Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes) are our ‘Off the Shelf’ guests, in which we ask artists to present objects from a shelf or shelves from their home and talk about them.

Listen to another Monday Morning Brew playlist, ft. Marta Del Grandi, Joyce Moreno, Pascal Gamboni, Groupe Kounabeli de Musuku & Patience Dabany, Nduduzo Makhathini, Ricardo Dias Gomes/Domenico Lancellotti, James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg, Nils Berg Cinemascope, Rozini Pátkai, Enji, SUSS, Floreana and more.

Japanese sound artist FUJI||||||||||TA returns to Hallow Ground with his second full-length MMM for the Swiss label, his most complex so far–a masterpiece of conceptual and formal rigour.

Martin Simpson is our latest ‘Off the Shelf’ guest, in which we ask artists to present objects from a shelf or shelves from their home and talk about them. Martin’s new album, Skydancers, is out now on Topic Records.

Malin Lewis, the pioneering queer bagpiper, fiddler, instrument maker and composer, releases their debut album Halocline next month. Watch the stunningly scenic video for their third album single, Hiraeth. The album is inspired by European folk traditions, human nature, queerness and the universe.

Jake Xerxes Fussell announces his new album and Fat Possum debut ‘When I’m Called’. Listen to his lead single, the traditional song ‘Going to Georgia’, sourced from an Art and Margo Rosenbaum Folkways anthology. It’s truly heavenly.

Taken from his new album “Ship to Shore”, Richard Thompson shares his new single ‘Freeze’ – “Oh, for heaven’s sake, do something. Forwards, backwards, sideways, anything. There is nothing to fear but fear itself… no, I take it back, it’s all terrifying choices. Good luck.”