Alex Gallacher

On Ark Angel II, Alex Homan’s experimental freeform guitar flourishes guide the listener on a meandering walk…warbling tapes, glitchy sounds and occasional cacophonous outbursts all serve to remind you that it’s sometimes necessary to get intentionally lost in order to truly appreciate freedom.

Watch the new video from Basque multi-instrumentalist Elena Setién for ‘Asking’, filmed in the ancient cave systems of the Basque Country, and taken from her new album Moonlit Reveries, a collaboration with Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche.

Listen to our latest Playlist: Afro and Arabic Funk #1 featuring 70s African rare grooves, Spiritual Jazz, Psychedelic Soul, Afrobeat, Habibi Funk, sub-Saharan African blues and more.

Watch Buck Curran and Jodi Pedrali performing ‘Sadness’. The tune, despite the name, is one laced with hope and is influenced by the moods of John Coltrane’s lamentation ‘Alabama’ and Ornette Coleman’s ‘Sadness’.

Tompkins Square revisit Tyler Ramsey’s Record Store Day 78 rpm and make it available digitally for the first time. The two contrasting tracks are striking and poetic gems.

Our Tune of the Day comes from North Carolina-based duo Magic Tuber Stringband featuring Courtney Werner and Evan Morgan. Listen to their new single ‘Twelfth House’, taken from their forthcoming album Needlefall.

This April, Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom (of The Burning Hell) will tour the UK bringing their 2020 album ‘Never Work’ to life in a collaboration with visual artist and indie rock legend Shotgun Jimmie.

Taken from his new album All Hits: Memories, drummer Jim White shares a video for his new album single ‘Marketplace’, made by Anna White…The tapping of the hi-hat, like signals from typewriters and stock tickers of old, sets the tone…

Lankum share a live video from their recent performance at London’s iconic Roundhouse and announce their biggest indoor gig to date at London’s Eventim Apollo in October. If this doesn’t make you want to see them live, I don’t know what will.

Spiritual vibes resonate throughout the new Monday Morning Brew featuring Herbie Hancock, Don Cherry, Alice Coltrane, Jon Hassell, Dorothy Ashby, eden ahbez, Mike Cooper, Angel Bat Dawid, Maurice Louca and more.

Australian guitar whizz D.C Cross has shared a video for ‘A Harebrained Adventure of An Amateur Shaman’, directed by Steve Hanft. The results speak for themselves, an experimental and adventurous collaboration…a total gem.

Martin Simpson announces his new album Skydancers (Topic Records) and shares a stunning video for the title track, made in collaboration with Ballet Folk and Studio Bokego.