Interviews

We meet up with English folk masters Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden, our current Artists of the Month, to talk about their wonderful new album Glad Christmas Comes and rum topped diplomacy…

Alexander Ellis – Our Man In The Field – talks candidly about his experience of recording his latest album, Gold On The Horizon, with Tucker Martine, his approach to songwriting, the people who inspire his songs and more.

Leeds-based folk singer Chris Brain is our latest ‘Off the Shelf‘ guest, in which we ask artists to present objects from a shelf or elsewhere from their home and talk about them. 

We talk to The Furrow Collective (Rachel Newton, Alasdair Roberts, Lucy Farrell and Emily Portman) about their new album, We Know by the Moon – a chilly delight: eleven folk songs blasted by winter winds and steeped in the glow of firelight and moonlight.

We chat with the people behind Sound Roots (Previously English Folk Expo) and some artists who have participated in their annual showcase, mentoring programme, Global Music Match and more to better understand what it is they do.

Our latest ‘Off the Shelf’ feature, where we ask artists to present objects from their shelves and talk about them, is from You Are Wolf, the alt-folk project of Kerry Andrew. Their new album, hare // hunter // moth // ghost, is out next month.

We chat to Sheffield’s Melrose Quartet about their new album ‘Make the World Anew’ – a staunch defence of the sheer joy of creativity, allowing for contemporary political songwriting and age-old dance tunes, poignant a cappella standards and complex instrumentals.

This month, Jonathan Day heads to M’hamid El Ghizlane, for Festival Taragalte, where he and his band will play under the starry skies. He shares his previous experience of the festival and talks about the importance of tourism to the area following the recent earthquake.

Cardiff-based songwriter and instrumentalist Gareth Bonello, aka The Gentle Good, is our latest ‘Off the Shelf’ guest, in which we ask artists to present objects from their homes and talk about them. Gareth’s new album, Galargan, is out now on Bubblewrap Collective.

As Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening return with their second album, Cloud Horizons, we chat with Kathryn about how the album came about, the shadow of Hadrian’s Wall, mythical magic, the multicultural history of Northumbria, job-sharing singers and more.

We catch up with JUNO Award-winning singer-songwriter and plant-loving Dominique Fils-Aimé at her Montreal apartment to talk about her fourth album, Our Roots Run Deep, an album themed around greenness and rebirth – and the first in a new trilogy.

We chat with Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O’Reilly about their new album, The Beautiful Road, a work of graft and craft as well as exceptional artistry: music like this isn’t just plucked out of the air; it is the result of a serious and well-defined working relationship, nurtured over a period of years.