Alex Gallacher

Filmed in the ancient heart of Bergamo, Italy, watch the accompanying video for Buck Curran’s Winter Solstice 1, taken from the recently released ‘Solstice: A Tribute to Steffen Basho-Junghans’. We also have details of his Robbie Basho 12 String Restoration Project.

Today, sees the release of Horse Lords Live in Leipzig, described as an exploded view of the quartet’s unparalleled live show. Watch them performing ‘Mess Mend’, which gives a brilliant insight into the complexities of their music and the demands it places upon the musicians.

American Primitive Guitar pioneer Harry Taussig will release his new album ’80’ via Tompkins Square on his 82nd birthday. He reflects on how he wanted to extend the American folk guitar tradition into previously unexplored territories and how he did so through theories of classical musical forms.

Later this month Steve Dawson releases his newest album, Eyes Closed, Dreaming. Watch him in session with Joachim Cooder, Jeremy Holmes, Darryl Havers and Krystle Dos Santos for the beautiful and engaging original ‘Hemingway’.

Taken from Lankum’s fourth album, watch the visualiser video for their new single ‘The New York Trader’, a ‘Jonah Ballad’ that they learned from Ringsend native Luke Cheevers.

Omnivore Recordings and Iconic Artists Group announce Stephen Stills Live At Berkeley 1971, a previously unissued recording made during his first US Tour. Each show opened to an intimate acoustic set, and closed with a riveting electric set featuring the Memphis Horns.

Taken from his new album “Secret Stratosphere”, check our ‘Area Code 601’ from William Tyler & The Impossible Truth – Hawkwind meets The Charlie Daniels Band. Also our Song of the Day.

Watch the new video for Counting Stars, the latest single from Glasgow-based Indie folk band Snows of Yesteryear. With such impressive early offerings like this, you will definitely want to keep this band on your radar.

Watch the video for ‘Painterly’, the new single from guitarist and songwriter Steve Gunn and pianist and composer David Moore. It’s taken from their forthcoming new album Reflections Vol. 1: Let the Moon Be a Planet, a new serial from RVNG Intl. showcasing contemporary collaborations.

Athens, Georigia-based guitarist and songwriter, Shane Parish, offers this peak behind the curtain of his first full-length album of ‘songs with words’ with a lush and hypnotic video for his deliciously quirky “Walk Back Words”, also our Song of the Day.

Our Song of the Day is ‘Quatro Palavras’, from Marlene Ribeiro’s new album Toquei no Sol – a mesmerising sound journey that features her grandmother singing in her kitchen in Portugal.

Watch the new video from Glasgow-based Turkish musician Isik Kural for ‘lo si aspetta’, recorded live. The video was shot in Amasya, Turkey, lends weight to that sense of time and the idea of Isik being a photographer of sound.