Interviews

The fabric of Damien Jurado’s finely woven universe looks set to expand even further. We chat to him about his latest album, his big plans for 2022, disconnecting and slowing down in an age of information overload & 24-hour news, gratitude and more.

In Mental Health Awareness Week, Richard Hollingham considers the role music plays in his own mental health and how it can help others.

Ten years ago today, avant folk duo Arborea released their critically praised album ‘Red Planet’ – in celebration, Buck and Shanti share their personal recollections of that album along with personal insights into its making in a special guest post.

We talk to Dan Torigoe, a man who followed his dreams. The founder of Doleceola Recordings Dan travels halfway around the world from Japan to record American traditional music using the same vintage analog equipment used by Alan Lomax.

On Tuesday 27 April 2021 Spell Songs will perform a unique live streamed concert to raise funds for the Natural History Museum’s Urban Nature Project. We chat to Jackie Morris, Karine Polwart, Seckou Keita, Julie Fowlis, Kris Drever, Jim Molyneux, Rachel Newton and Beth Porter as well as Lauren Hyams, Natural History Museum’s Head of Garden Activities.

We chat to M G Boulter, our Artist of the Month, about his new album which introduces us to the eerily familiar landscape of Clifftown, a sleepy seaside resort on the east coast of England.

“I didn’t want to do just a guitar record.” – ‘Kissing Rosy in the Rain’ is one of those recordings that just stays with you and makes you want to find out more about it and the people who made it, so we did just that.

We chat to Jon Boden about his new album ‘Last Mile Home’, the recent Bellowhead reunion and the much-anticipated return of Spiers and Boden, as well as the challenges of wild swimming. Plus, watch his new video for ‘Old Straight Track’.

We catch up with Charles and Andrew Hendy and Seán McKenna – the Dundalk trio better known as The Mary Wallopers who have another Paddy’s Day Livestream lined up for next week (Wed 17 March). Last year’s show stacked up 40,000 views in the first 24 hours…you’d be a fool to miss it.

We talk to Eliza Marshall and Donal Rogers (of Ranagri) about Eliza’s ‘Freedom to Roam: The Rhythms Of Migration’ project, an album and short documentary film exploring the challenges and frustrations of the forbidden freedoms within humanity, the exploitation of land and animals.

Eric D. Johnson chats to KLOF Mag about his last twenty years in music from working with The Shins to Bonny Light Horseman, as well as Fruit Bats and his new album The Pet Parade.

To celebrate the release of ‘The Best of 365’, we catch up with Scottish fiddler, composer and producer Aidan O’Rourke (Lau) to chat about his 30 album project “365″. We also chat about his other projects as well as exciting future plans including a virtual Lau-Land on 27 March.