Dorothy Carter’s 1976 debut album, Troubadour, is to be reissued for the first time by Drag City. Taken from that album, listen to the mesmerising Masquerade, released as a single today.
Watch Dean McPhee’s ‘The Bradford Boar’, filmed by Dave George and inspired by the Ben Wheatley film “A Field in England”. It features on a split cassette release (with Pefkin), available on Folklore Tapes as part of their Ceremonial Counties Subscription Series.
As Throat, Mark Mckowski and Nick Power deliver a fascinating folk horror debut—like a bleak lysergic-fuelled version of The Wicker Man; it’s unnerving but leaves you strangely wanting more.
Taken from David Grubb’s forthcoming third album, Circadia, which investigates the weird and wonderful phenomena encountered through the sleep phases and encompasses folk, jazz, prog, klezmer, and more, watch the video for his lead single, ‘Daily Grind’.
Filmed and musically scored by Myles O’Reilly, the flora and fauna of Rónán Ó Snodaigh’s poem, When Peace Broke Out In The Garden, become the central characters in an epic tale of war, negotiation, peace talks and transformation.
Watch the video for ‘We Are A Circle’, the lead single from Simon Jones’ new ‘folk horror’ EP, Lust, Desire & Blood, inspired by memories of Folk Horror classics like Children Of The Stones, and those creepy public information films he watched as a boy.
London Songstress Rosie Alena breathes new life into ‘Oh Dear, What Can The Matter Be’, an English Nursery rhyme dating from the late 18th Century and ‘Silver Dagger’ that she recontextualises to fit within her own sonic world – “becoming my stories to tell.”
Liverpudlian producer Andrew PM Hunt (Dialect) announces new album, Atlas of Green. Watch Sara Ludy’s video for the lead single, ‘Late Fragment’; the song encompasses the melancholic core of the album, a patchwork of memory and mistranslation.
We Are Muffy (Angeline Morrison and Nick Duffy) share the gorgeously quirky ‘Eel Song’ and ’20th Century Folk Hymnal’, the latter being the lead track from their new album “Lost Things Returning”.
Watch the late great Kentucky multi-instrumentalist Jack Bunch performing ‘Cowboy Special’, taken from the forthcoming new Dolceola Recordings release – “Not A Flower On Dogwood Flats: The Music Of Jack Bunch & Laurel County”. It’s magical and timeless.
With the deeply immersive Wild Silence, we are given a glimpse of the world of Irish ornithologist and sound recordist Seán Ronayne, who captures the sound of nature without anthropogenic noise. This immersive album precedes his memoir, Nature Boy, which will be published in October.
Taken from Dean Owens forthcoming new album ‘Spirit Ridge’, watch the video for ‘My Beloved Hills’, his lead single. The new album is as big and cinematic as Dean’s recent collaboration with Calexico, with an equally deeply rooted sense of place.
