WOMAD makes first lineup announcement for 2021 including Anoushka Shankar, Nitin Sawhney, The Dhol Foundation, Sona Jobarteh, Sam Amidon, Greentea Peng, Nubiyan Twist, Dizraeli and more.
Listen to Will Beeley’s ‘Pitch Black Sky’, taken from ‘1970 Sessions’ a follow up to his debut, ‘Gallivantin’. Never released until now, the album was used as an audition tape…it deserves to be so much more.
London-based seven-piece alt-folk band Ringlefinch announce their debut album Tall Tales – a musical casserole that’s far more than the sum of its ingredients.
Watch a cut from NOA, a striking 45-minute-long film collaboration between Taylor Rogers and filmmaker Lillian Walker. This extract features Chicago-based performance artist Alana Parekh and her powerful dance interpretation of “N.A.”
Katherine Priddy announces her highly anticipated debut album ‘ The Eternal Rocks Beneath’ and shares the outstanding opener ‘Indigo’, also our Song of the Day, which harks back to the soundtrack of her own childhood.
Swedish duo Molosser share video for ‘Unsolid’. Imprinted by a rural lifestyle, their music has a vibrant folkloric edge, occasionally reminiscent of Pentangle’s jazzy vibe. One worth exploring.
Bellowhead announce the release of their new album ‘Reassembled’, the recording from their online broadcast concert in December 2020. Listen to them performing New York Girls.
Our Song of the Day is New Light, the latest single from Dublin-based group Sun Collective. It contains some beautiful instrumental flourishes, notably from musicians Lina Andonovska and Nick Roth that add to Gilmore’s deep reflective offering.
Listen to “Tom’, the new single from Damien Jurado taken from his forthcoming new album “The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania”, one on which he offers up his own Twilight Zone.
Sam Brookes pays tribute to John Martyn as he premieres his new single ‘You Can Discover’, a “lesser-known gem” on John’s 1973 album ‘Sundays Child’, a song Brookes immediately fell in love with and does great justice here.
Our Song of the Day is “How Did We Get Here”. It comes from Allysen Callery who is joined by friend & producer Myles Baer who she has worked with since her early days.
Laura Veirs releases an acoustic and electric version of The Panther – Written in 1902, the Rainer Maria Rilke poem describes a captured panther on exhibit at the Ménagerie of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.
