Ulster trio TRÚ announce their forthcoming new album ‘Eternity Near’ and share their music video for their lead single ‘Long Black Veil’. The video is a small masterpiece, casting this classic song in a new contemporary light.
I heard ‘floral and full’ for the first time today, and for over nine minutes, I was completely transported by Brooklyn, NY-based improviser, composer, and percussionist, Lesley Mok and her chamber ensemble.
What To Do, How To Live? is the debut album from Lakiko, sung almost entirely in Bosnian using a vocal technique from the Sevdalinka tradition. The release is accompanied by a short film, Lakiko – A Hybrid Idea, directed by Manfred Borsch which premieres on Folk Radio today.
Mariee Siou releases the title track of her new EP ‘Circle of Signs’, accompanied by a music video directed by the visionary multi-disciplinary artist Samantha Shay and featuring first-time actor Seraphia Behr.
Our Song of the Day comes from ‘Arkansas forged and New Mexico molded’ Jude Brothers, who is embarking on a UK & Ireland tour in May/June 2023 in support of their new album “render tender / blunder sunder,” out May 12th on Gar Hole Records.
Taken from Scott William Urquhart & Constant Follower’s forthcoming new album, watch the papercut, stop-motion animation for their sublime new single ‘Wildlife Camerman’, also featuring the magical voice of Scottish poet Norman MacCaig.
Venezuelan folk artist Ane Diaz has shared her newest single + video, “Carmela.” It’s the latest track off her debut album Despechada, out June 9 via Rain Phoenix’s label, LaunchLeft.
This Friday, West Philadelphia’s folk/slowcore project ther (T͟Hər) release their new album, a horrid whisper echoes in a palace of endless joy. Listen to their final single ‘big papi lassos the moon’, also our Song of the Day.
Rough Trade Records, in partnership with Audika Records, have announced ‘Picture of Bunny Rabbit’, a new album of previously unreleased World Of Echo era material by the visionary musician Arthur Russell. Watch the accompanying video for The Boy With a Smile.
Taken from their forthcoming third studio album Kolmas, Slow Moving Clouds share their video for ‘The Longest Lie’, also our Song of the Day. The song taps into the sense of ideological upheaval currently being experienced globally.
Taken from his new live album ‘Seven Devils’, Derek Piotr premieres The Bramble Briar, one of several unaccompanied live recordings made in support of last year’s ‘The Devil Knows How’.
Produced by the legendary Dirk Powell, listen in full to ‘Angels in the Wreckage’, the forthcoming new album from New England-based folk band Low Lily, and read their track-by-track.
