Albums

Sometimes music has the power to transport the listener to another time and place. The audience of a packed Glad Café witnessed such an occasion on the first night of The Aidan O’Rourke Quintet’s tour for their new album ‘Hotline’.

The scenes on Emily Jane White’s Blood / Lines are worlds between worlds and the spaces between words, ghost ships passing in the night. This is the music of yesterday and tomorrow, seen through the gauzy curtain of today.

Just a week into a 28-date UK tour, Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo rolled into town and proceeded to tear the roof off a packed house at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Helen was there for FRUK.

John Martyn – The Island Years is a significant collection of his music and illustrates perfectly the many journeys his muse took him on…John Martyn’s finest years. We’ve included a live performance bonus (not from this collection).

Jim Dickinson told his sons they’d be better together than apart. Heading his words they take his valediction and fuse the history of the blues to a new vital heartbeat. The NMA are keeping blues music alive with an evangelical rallying cry.

Beautifully packaged, Teach Me To Be A Summer’s Morning is a loving portrait, created by a daughter in memory of her late mother. It captures a creative spark that could light an inferno.

Arlet’s debut album ‘Clearing’ features folk, jazz and classical chamber music performed on an eclectic range of instruments…it will take you to places you hadn’t realise existed.

Simon heads to The Slaughtered Lamb to catch Israel Nash Gripka and gets blown away! He declares at the end of the night “This is the gig I’ve waited more than 40 years for!”

Bringing you an exclusive première of a track from the new Lau ‘Remix’ CD, Martin Green offers some insight into the creative whirlwind world of the Lau vs EP series.

Nordic duo Mona & Maria offer a sonic time capsule of better days tinged with the famed Nordic melancholia on their debut album My Sun. A welcome pick-me-up for the winter ahead.

The Wooden Shjips take a new direction on Back to the Land, the gut-churning psychedelia remains but this is the sound of a band with a fresh focus, set to win over a whole new set of fans.

Aidan O’Rourke brings his ambitious, magical Hotline into the live arena for a two rare Scottish shows on 17th and 18th October, featuring the CD’s multi-talented five piece line up.