Alex Gallacher

On Qasr, the defiance and courage of Sheherazaad translates into some of the most wondrous and exhilarating music I’ve ever heard. There isn’t another album like it; it’s transformational, and everyone should own a copy.

Taken from her forthcoming album ‘Late Slap’, Dana Gavanski shares her Talking Heads-esque single/video ‘Ears Were Growing’ – an escapist dream that spirals back to the reality of being stuck on the same old sofa with the same old thoughts.

Watch Hatis Noit’s latest video for Jomon, an incredible 3-D animation by Berlin-based Taiwanese-Japanese media artist NAOWAO, that takes inspiration from Japan’s ancient Jōmon culture.

Mdou Moctar reveal the lead single and video of their new album ‘Funeral for Justice’ on which their songs speak unflinchingly to the plight of Niger and of the Tuareg people. Primed with a new sense of purpose and urgency, their music is louder, faster, and fiery.

To mark the release of ‘Folklore 1979’, the acclaimed new album from Milkweed, watch the full-length 11-minute accompanying video created by Greg Butler of Oh Kestrel Films…it unspools like a single disjointed dream narrative, taking in ritual, extinction, migration, esoteric cosmogony and Arthurian legend.

Filmed on Orkney by Lewis Baillie, Oisín Leech shares his music video for ‘One Hill Further’, taken from his forthcoming album Cold Sea. Don’t miss his upcoming tour, including dates when he’s joined by Steve Gunn, Dónal Lunny and Róisín McGrory.

Taken from their forthcoming new album Negore, ODD OKODDO (Kenyan/German duo featuring Olith Ratego and Sven Kacirek) called upon Angel Bat Dawid to add her magic to their lead single Timneyore which is also our Song of the Day.

Jane Weaver delivers her over-the-top lovesong ‘Romantic Worlds’ with great tongue-in-cheek panache in a video that borrows from 80s Dungeons and Dragons fantasy—Pedalo adventures, encounters, myth and culture.

To celebrate the paperback publication of Graeme Thomson’s “Small Hours: The Long Night of John Martyn”, read extracts from the book and watch cover sessions by Karine Polwart, Findlay Napier, Siobhan Wilson, Olivia Chaney and Blue Rose Code.

BASIC, a trio featuring Chris Forsyth, Nick Millevoi, and Mikel Patrick Avery, are just finishing their first studio recordings. Watch them in concert – filmed last year at Union Transfer in Philadelphia.

Montreal fiddler Alexis Chartrand has joined forces with multi-instrumentalist Cédric Dind-Lavoie for their new album Au Chemin 4. If you are a fan of The Gloaming and Martin Hayes’ The Common Ground Ensemble, I’m sure you’ll love this.

Steve Gunn & David Moore’s “Live in London” was recorded at Cafe Oto during their 2023 spring tour of ‘Let the Moon be a Planet’…using pieces that appeared on that album, they have created five new compositions from a place of joy and camaraderie.