Alex Gallacher

Gatineau, Quebec-based composer Nick Schofield announces his new album, Ambient Ensemble, and shares his first single and video ‘On Air’ – “I imagined the music accompanying a painter in her studio, the windows open and the song flowing in and swirling around the artwork.”

On what would have been her 100th birthday, Mississippi Records is today celebrating the brilliance and vision of Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru with a new single and the announcement of a major new release, her self-recorded vocal album, Souvenirs. 

This month, Scissor Tail Records release Gary Peters’s “Beginnings: Collected Pedal Steel Works”, a rewarding album that both challenges and engages.

Scottish singer songwriter Adam Holmes shares the video for his new single Go Lassie Go, taken from his new album ‘The Voice of Scotland’. “This album is a commitment to this life as a communicator via the medium of songs and stories.”

Recommended: Out now on Sean Conrad’s Seattle-based ambient/devotional Inner Islands label, Wide Ranging Rider is the latest offering from Stefan Beck, aka Golden Brown…emblazoned with originality throughout.

The award-winning ‘broken folk’ duo Lunatraktors have a festive alter-ego – Yulatraktors. Their new album ‘Solstice Wyrd’ drops tomorrow. Watch their new video for ‘Remember the Poor, ‘ an old ballad that is increasingly relevant today.

A new Monday Morning Brew ft. Piers Faccini & Dawn Landes, Anna Mieke, Daniel Bachman, SUSS, Lee Baggett, L CON, Niall Summerton, Gunn – Truscinski -Nace, André 3000, Daudi Matsiko, Daisy Rickman, Wes Tirey and Adrianne Lenker, Alabaster DePlume, Joanna Sternberg and more.

Our Song of the Day comes from outsider folk mystic Lee Baggett with Zipper Ride, a blissful meditation that leaves me smiling every time I hear it…taken from his new album ‘Echo Me On’, released this month on Perpetual Doom.

Listen to our latest Folk Show featuring Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden, Nick Hart & Tom Moore, Bernard Wrigley, Peter Bellamy, Angharad Jenkins and Patrick Rimes, Alasdair Roberts, Steeleye Span, Fay Hield, The Left Outsides, The Owl Service, Norma Waterson and more.

Emma Tricca has released a new digital single, Rain & Tears, a song by Aphrodite’s Child – the progressive Greek rock and pop band founded in 1967 that included Demis Roussos and Vangelis, who died last year.

The poet, writer, musician, activist and self-proclaimed ‘Rasta Folkie’ Benjamin Zephaniah has died at the age of 65 after being diagnosed with a brain tumour.

We look back at some of our most popular Mixtapes – this features Mountain Man, Pharis and Jason Romero, Bob Dylan, Tom Rosenthal, Johnny Flynn, Valerie June, Michael Kiwanuka, Joni Mitchell, The Staves, Aisha Burns, Karima Walker, John Martyn, Nick Drake, Aldous Harding, Gillian Welch & more.