Linking two outstanding talents in Jim Moray and Sam Carter, with Sam Nadel, Tom Moore, Nick Cooke and Jon Thorne, False Lights took Folk East 2014 by storm. Salvor is the reason why.
In the first part of our exclusive interview with The Unthanks they talk about their singing weekends and a vinyl playback of Mount The Air sees Adrian puncturing a few misconceptions.
We take a look at the world of the 78rpm collectors through two videos featuring leading collectors in the field: Ian Nagoski and Jonathan Ward. Don’t blame me if you get the bug!
With ‘Love And Logic’ suggesting a band really hitting its stride we catch up with Charlottesville band Sons Of Bill in a Bermondsey pub as they prepare for their UK tour leg.
It’s taken two years of patient work but Streets Of Laredo finally have the debut album that they always intended in the twisty, psychedelic, country-folk rumble of Volume I & II.
Stepping into the spotlight, Martin Callingham called on his friends from the Bristol scene to help create the beautifully realised statement album Tonight, We All Swim Free.
A good looking CD, Dan Webster’s The Tin Man also sounds fabulous as his newly learnt production skills make the most of some great playing and his literate songcraft and superb voice.
Working on a grand scale with incredible musical skill Treacherous Orchestra’s second album Grind is a masterpiece of symphonic invention and seat-of-the-pants virtuosity.
Irmin Schmidt, a founder of seminal 1970s German experimental band Can – is awarded French Knighthood. We pay tribute to the band’s guitarist, Michael Karoli who would have been 67 this year.
As a music-obsessed teenager in southern France, Franz Robert Wild gradually learned to turn his passion into his own songs and The French House proves the merit of living your dream.
Calexico played the final day of Celtic Connections this weekend featuring music from their new album Edge of the Sun. Ian McDonagh was there to capture some of the magic through the lens for Folk Radio UK.
