Alex Gallacher

Listen to the Monday Morning Brew ft. Penguin Cafe, Fairport Convention, Cate Le Bon, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Ola Bella Reed, Joshua Burnside & Laura Quirke, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Michael Hurley, Kevin Moby & Waxahatchee, Allison Russell, Ali Farka Touré and more.

Manchester-based trumpeter, bandleader and composer Matthew Halsall announces his new album, An Ever Changing View, and shares a beautifully scenic video for lead single ‘Water Street’, also our Tune of the Day…There’s a freshness to this music that envelopes the listener and makes you want to hit repeat.

Ruth Theodore shares video for her latest single ‘Thompson’, featuring dancers Jennifer Delve and Haitian-born French musician-songwriter Renes BBWI – “…a very intimate song about falling in love and falling asleep.”

Sourdurent, the new Occitan-language group project from French folk experimentalist Ernest Bergez, share their brilliantly inventive video for La Dumenchada – set in medieval times and aided by psychotropic drugs, the poor reap the riches of the wealthy.

Clare Sands is joined by Brian Finnegan of FLOOK on her anthemic new single Dealán Dé, an ancient word from County Donegal meaning both butterfly and Northern lights – watch the accompanying video directed and shot by visual artists and twin sisters Liadain and Kasia Kaminska.

New Land are to release a beautifully presented LP box set reissue of Dorothy Ashby’s first six albums. We take a brief look at the pioneering jazz harpist – her journey and how she paved the way for future generations like Brandee Younger.

The latest Monday Morning Brew features Dorothy Ashby, Captain Beefheart, Dur-Dur- Band, Kacy & Clayton, F.J. McMahon, Leah Senior, Piers Faccini, Miriam Makeba, Scott McMicken, This is The Kit, Cat Clyde, Dean Johnson, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Buffy Saint-Marie, Bob Dylan, Pentangle, C Joynes and more.

Contemporary Americana artist Dusky Waters talks us through her new album “Pass It On”, which is out today. Like the culturally rich Mississippi Delta that has anchored her life from childhood, the music of Dusky Waters embraces a multitude of influences…a remarkably entertaining album.

Our Song of the Day is from Laura Misch. Her new single ‘Portals’, taken from her forthcoming new debut album, is “about sensing the natural world, feeling connected to the elements from the sky to the snails, and dancing with it…It was made with care and woven together by many friends’ creations…”

Listen to Espresso Martini, the new single from Cavalo55, the musical project of very well-travelled Simone Carugati, a multi-instrumentalist, folk singer-songwriter who grew up in Northern Italy.

First issued in 1969, the Malombo Jazz Makers’ unknown third album ‘Down Lucky’s Way’ is reissued on vinyl. The liner notes include an interview with Lucky Ranku, one of the greatest African guitarists of his generation.

Watch Antoni O’Breskey & Ultan O’Brien performing ‘Punta Umbria’. The essence of their music is rarefied yet profoundly earthy and fluid and in their upcoming album, they have fused seemingly irreconcilable elements from traditional Irish music, classical and Jazz.