Watch the video for ‘We Are A Circle’, the lead single from Simon Jones’ new ‘folk horror’ EP, Lust, Desire & Blood, inspired by memories of Folk Horror classics like Children Of The Stones, and those creepy public information films he watched as a boy.
London Songstress Rosie Alena breathes new life into ‘Oh Dear, What Can The Matter Be’, an English Nursery rhyme dating from the late 18th Century and ‘Silver Dagger’ that she recontextualises to fit within her own sonic world – “becoming my stories to tell.”
Liverpudlian producer Andrew PM Hunt (Dialect) announces new album, Atlas of Green. Watch Sara Ludy’s video for the lead single, ‘Late Fragment’; the song encompasses the melancholic core of the album, a patchwork of memory and mistranslation.
We Are Muffy (Angeline Morrison and Nick Duffy) share the gorgeously quirky ‘Eel Song’ and ’20th Century Folk Hymnal’, the latter being the lead track from their new album “Lost Things Returning”.
Watch the late great Kentucky multi-instrumentalist Jack Bunch performing ‘Cowboy Special’, taken from the forthcoming new Dolceola Recordings release – “Not A Flower On Dogwood Flats: The Music Of Jack Bunch & Laurel County”. It’s magical and timeless.
With the deeply immersive Wild Silence, we are given a glimpse of the world of Irish ornithologist and sound recordist Seán Ronayne, who captures the sound of nature without anthropogenic noise. This immersive album precedes his memoir, Nature Boy, which will be published in October.
Taken from Dean Owens forthcoming new album ‘Spirit Ridge’, watch the video for ‘My Beloved Hills’, his lead single. The new album is as big and cinematic as Dean’s recent collaboration with Calexico, with an equally deeply rooted sense of place.
The sixth in a series of Loose Music nights at the Betsey Trotwood pub featuring Roseanne Reid, Ollie Cook and surprise guest Will Varley provided a low-key and intimate alternative to the Glastonbury festival.
Lisa O’Neill has announced two very special ‘Symphony for the Moons’ orchestral shows this winter at Dublin’s National Concert Hall with the National Symphony Orchestra and London’s Barbican with the Britten Sinfonia.
In their latest Echos documentary, Murailles Music presents the music of Borja Flames. ‘cosmogonie pop’ examines Borja’s music and synesthesia. It’s a beautiful insight and an informative documentary that offers plenty of food for thought on music today.
Spanish artist Alba Haro shares her video for ‘Lo que sueña de noche’, inspired by Federico García Lorca’s Zorongo Gitano. Its refined and dreamlike qualities also highlight her evolved and inventive relationship with the cello.
Lilith Records have reissued Caetano Veloso’s Caetano Veloso (Irene) on vinyl, an album originally released in 1969. Listen to the title track, a song about a machine gun-toting outlaw celebrated by the left.
