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Sareban, the musical project of rubab player Mathieu Clavel, shares Ayrılık, a new single from debut album Echoes in the Weave on Worlds Within Worlds. The track explores the 10/8 jurjuna, a Kurdish rhythmic cycle rarely heard in traditional rubab repertoire, opening new pathways for phrasing and improvisation on the instrument. Listen now.
Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and The Rajasthan Express share new single “Shemesh” and its accompanying video, ahead of their album “Ranjha,” out 8th May via World Circuit/BMG. A decade on from Junun, the 21-strong ensemble reconvened in Greenwood’s Oxfordshire studio to channel Sufi devotion, Rajasthani folk and collective musical exploration into a long-awaited follow-up.
Zoh Amba announces Eyes Full, their Matador debut album, out June 5th, and shares the first single and video Another Time. Returning to their first instrument, the guitar, and to their Tennessee hometown, Amba delivers tough, soulful songs tracked live with no overdubs. The album looks closely at working-class lives with aching, unsentimental tenderness.
Chris Brain shares “Kinds Of Kindness”, the third single and video from his forthcoming album “Red Sun Rising” – “a fragile song based on my childhood and that is represented by the harmonics throughout, the instrumentation is supposed to convey a building of intensity and in the end forgiveness.” An extensive UK and Ireland tour begins in April.
One Leg One Eye — the blackened-folk project of Lankum’s Ian Lynch and George Brennan — announce their second album CRONE, out 22 May on AD 93, and share its first track, Many are my Names Besides, featuring legendary performer Olwen Fouéré channelling the war goddess Morrigan. Watch the official video now.
Rua Rí shares “Makeover,” a new single and video from debut album, “Tell Your Mother I Saved Your Life,” out 1st May via Soft Boy Records. Written on the spot while busking on Shandon Bridge in Cork City, the track is a giddy rush of nursery rhyme absurdism and folk energy — with a video Damery describes as “a mob wife pre-drinks party.”
Henry Parker returns on May 1st with “The Dark Peak,” a solo guitar EP shaped by a multi-day backpacking trip across Bleaklow and the Upper Derwent ridges. Watch the live video for “Upper Derwent,” filmed at a remote shooting cabin in the freezing December moorland. Delicate fingerpicking and field recordings of curlews, lapwings and bitter winds — landscape music at its most immersive.
Steve Gunn announces ‘Shape of a Wave,’ a four-song companion EP to his acclaimed ‘Daylight Daylight,’ out this Friday via No Quarter. The set features two new recordings with James Elkington and two tracks remixed by Spacemen 3’s Pete “Sonic Boom” Kember. Listen to the Nearly There remix, a luminous reworking of the album’s opening track.
Room40 announces Headwater, the new album from Finnish/Australian double bassist, vocalist and composer Helen Svoboda, arriving June 26th. Built around two double basses, two voices and electronics, the album weaves sixteen threads into an abstracted portrait of self. Watch the video for album opener “If”, a piece exploring a dream shaped by constant interruptions.
Goblin Band return with new single ‘Clyde Water’, out today via Broadside Hacks on digital and 7″ vinyl. A studio recording with producer Rory Salter, it channels the exuberance of the traditional ballad via Nic Jones’ distinctive versions. The single arrives ahead of the quartet’s biggest headline show yet — EartH Theatre, Hackney, May 1st.
Jesca Hoop has shared “Big Storm”, a propulsive new single and video from her forthcoming album “Long Wave Home.” Born from a moment of near-total flight — a plan to disappear, upended by the biggest storm in recent history — the track is a reckoning with the impossibility of escape. Watch the video now and pre-order the album ahead of its 1st May release.
Big Potato Records have announced Dream Me A Dream, the final studio album from Tucker Zimmerman, out June 19th. Listen to the first single Sun In Scorpio now. Pairing banjo, violin and swirling organ with orchestral Moog and analogue synths, Zimmerman leapt into textures recalling the electronica adventures of his earlier work. He was in his eighties, and it sounds like nothing else he recorded.