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Watch the new lyric video ‘Valle Local’, taken from José González’s fourth album Local Valley – “the ideas put forward in this album probe the corners of human consciousness while ultimately being an expression of love, peace and unity.”

We take a look back at the life of Barry Coope who passed away earlier this month. He was a member of Narthen and Coope, Boyes and Simpson – a name that represents the finest a capella harmonies in the English folk world.

Taken from their exhilarating second album Odyssey, watch the accompanying video to Open Seas from the international folk sensation that is Fourth Moon featuring: Austrian Géza Frank (flute and whistles), Italian David Lombardi (fiddle), Jean Damei from France (guitar) and Andrew Waite from Scotland.

In celebration of the 10-year anniversary of her song “I Have Never Loved Someone” My Brightest Diamond is releasing an Orchestrated version of the song. Watch the famous live session recorded in a hotel bar that made it so popular.

Today, Eric D. Johnson of Fruit Bats shares three performance videos from Icehouse in Minneapolis, fittingly dubbed “Icehouse Sessions.” Check out full-band Fruit Bats performing “Eagles Below Us,” “On the Avalon Stairs,” and “Complete”.

Recorded at the Corner House Recording Studio, watch Henry Parker performing ‘Return to the Sky’, taken from his latest album ‘Lammas Fair’ which he is now touring.

Taken from their forthcoming new album ‘Spell Songs II: Let The Light In’, listen to their profoundly moving new single ‘Birds of the Blizzard’, led by Julie Fowlis.

Real World shares a stunning new video from Montparnasse Musique for ‘Makonda’ featuring members of Kinshasa’s Bakoko collective – a group of fashion designers who combine their unique art with body performance. The garments used are exclusively made of bamboo and Mayaka seeds.

Bristol-based French folk singer Julie Abbé returns with her new single “Derrière Chez Nous”, a stunningly beautiful and deeply romantic retake on a French folk classic.

Sure to appeal to fans of the spiritual minimalism of Julia Holter and Laraaji-alike, and continuing the study in psychedelia and modulation undertaken by label alumni Bitchin Bajas and Sun Araw, Matchess will release her new album Sonoscent on Drag City on Feb 25th.

Newton Faulkner and Scottish TikTok star, Nati Dreddd join forces for a heart-warming and enriching version of ‘Winter Wonderland’ which features on his new EP ‘Christmas Light’, out this week.

Artifacts is a double-LP’s worth of music that traces the evolution of Beirut from a 14-year old Zach Condon’s first attempts at bringing the music he heard in his mind to life, to the fully formed Beirut we know today.