Listen in full to Letters from the Border, the debut album from British poet, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist Ben Osborn. The result of an extraordinary musical partnership with the head of Nonostar Records – German experimental violinist Alex Stolze.
Watch the new video from Ifriqiyya Electrique for Mashee Kooka, taken from their latest album Laylet el Booree which fuses the rhythms and invocations of the ancient Saharan Banga ritual…both grips and awakens.
Watch London-based multi-national indie pop band The Alpacas performing ‘Have You Ever’, their first single since their debut album Pictures of You. The single is released this Friday, 19th May.
To celebrate the reissue of Anne Briggs’ eponymous 1971 album we gave away a rare test pressing of the eponymous classic which was signed by Anne. And the winner is…
Shirley Collins’ personal memoir ‘All In The Downs: Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song’ which was published by Strange Attractor has won the Penderyn Music Book Prize.
Jim Moray has announced his seventh studio album – The Outlander. To celebrate we have an exclusive video to share of him performing Australia. He will be previewing all the songs on tour starting tomorrow at London’s Kings Place.
Live at St Giles is the new EP from Oxford-based, Arabic jazz ensemble Brickwork Lizards. Listen to them performing Nikriz Longa, an instrumental written at the turn of the 20th century by the prolific Ottoman composer Tanburi Cemil Bey.
Australian Acid/Psych folkers Trappist Afterland will be touring the UK in June in support of their new album Insects in Amber which will be launched at “terrascope presents” Woolf 2 festival.
Fitty Gomash, that rabble-rousing eight-piece from the West Country, have released a new video for the single, Jim Jones, taken from their album No Man for our Times. Watch it here.
Anglo-French band Topette!! featuring Barnaby Stradling, Andy Cutting, Julien Cartonnet, James Delarre and Tania Buisse head out on tour this month before recording a new album. Watch their new video for a set of French polkas.
Alex Rex and Trembling Bells have released a split 10” for Record Store Day…the final two statements from Trembling Bells. Watch the accompanying video for Irish trad. “Night Visiting Song” filmed by Oliver Neilson.
The inaugural Wales Folk Awards was a triumph as The Trials of Cato, Vri, Calan and Gwilym Bowen Rhys performed to a packed hall at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff.
