Dutch lute player and composer Jozef Van Wissem announces details of his forthcoming album ‘The Night Dwells in the Day’, and shares his first single and video “The Call of the Deathbird”, featuring stirring and enveloping guest vocals from Hilary Woods.
Tashi Dorji’s 2012 cassette-only release Guitar Improvisations is to be released on vinyl for the first time. Watch the new video for Improvisations I – Playing purely experimentally, he inhabits the now, increasing the elements in his play and carefully building a hypnotic whole.
Watch Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening’s new video for ‘Caelestis’, inspired by Latin words from around 1900 years ago that were inscribed on a stone found at Carvoran in Northumberland.
Recorded at Grand Chapel Studios in Tebworth, watch Bróna McVittie’s stunning performance of ‘When Glamour Hid Her Gaze’ from her 2020 album, The Man in the Mountain.
Next month sees the release of Bristol’s Tara Clerkin Trio’s new five-track EP ‘On The Turning Ground’ via World of Echo. Listen to the ‘overt sparkling melodicism’ of ‘Marble Walls’ and ‘The Turning Ground’.
Taken from their forthcoming album, ‘Mount Matsu’ (out 19 January 2024), global psych rockers YĪN YĪN share their shimmering new single and album opener: “The Year of the Rabbit”. UK dates for February 2024 also announced.
Watch the dreamy psychedelic new video for ‘River’, the new single from the cosmic force that is Brighton’s Wax Machine. Taken from ‘The Sky Unfurls; The Dance Goes On’, a lush, ambient and psych-toned folk album.
Watch the insightful and fascinating mini-documentary on composer, producer, percussionist, and instrument maker Bex Burch, whose debut solo album, There is only love and fear, is released this month on International Anthem.
Taken from his new album, Behind Every Door, Co. Down singer-songwriter Matt McGinn shares his touching new video for ‘The Turning of the Tide’, his latest single – a tribute to Belfast busker, Willie Campbell.
Celtic Connections shares details of their expansive 2024 lineup spanning acoustic, traditional, indie, Americana, Jazz, blues, orchestral, experimental and more. Plus some of Folk Radio’s picks.
Award-winning folk trio Lau bring their jubilant Lau-Land festival back to Edinburgh’s Summerhall and The Queen’s Hall this Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 October for another open-hearted celebration of music, community and the artists who inspire them.
Our Song of the Day comes from Buck Curran & Adele H with a beautiful cover of Bruce Cockburn’s 13th Mountain, taken from his debut album, released in 1970.
