The Morning Star seems like a giant leap forward into the experimental mind of Bachman. It’s an album with a sharp tongue and among the beauty that shines through is plenty of unrest, unease and anger. It makes for powerful and original music and ends on a finale that will probably blow your mind.
The Words in Between was Evan’s first album, released on Ian A Anderson’s Village Thing label, an album that is as good today as it was over forty years ago – still exquisite and unique, so make a space on the shelf alongside Jansch, Renbourn and Graham for Evans.
Watch Toby Hay performing Leaving Chicago, a track from his latest album The Longest Day. Don’t miss his album launch on Friday, 20th July 7:30pm, St John’s Church, Canton, Cardiff.
You Never Were Much of a Dancer is an absorbing, original and varied debut that demonstrates the skill and consideration this talented musician possesses.
An exceptional album from Sophie Cooper & Ben Nash (recorded back in 2009 and released on Sheffield’s Blackest Rainbow Records) made available digitally for the first time.
Watch Glenn Jones performing “The Sunken Amusement Park” from his new album “The Giant Who Ate Himself And Other New Works for 6 & 12 String Guitar”. It’s released on August 24th on Thrill Jockey Records.
Amid breathtaking Welsh landscape, we met up with twelve-string guitarist Toby Hay, our Artist of the Month for July, to discuss the mechanics behind his new set of acoustic instrumentals, The Longest Day.
Sarah Louise has shared her music video for Pipevine Swallowtails from her new album Deeper Woods. Sarah is also one half of Appalachian Folk duo House and Land who recently announced a run of European dates for this July.
This willingness to engage – emotionally and physically, with internal and external landscapes – is what sets Toby Hay apart from virtually everyone else currently making instrumental folk music. The Longest Day is a triumph, a thing of shimmering beauty.
A carefully flowing composition blooming into a kosmische-acid-folk opus. From start to finish, ‘Enter the Stream’ is a journey that takes the listener through a landscape of pristine natural beauty, human emotion, and esoteric undercurrents.
Nathan Salsburg has announced that his new solo record Third will be out July 20th via No Quarter Records, his first since 2013. Listen to Impossible Air.
Following the release of their hypnotic self-titled album in 2017, Appalachian Folk duo House and Land (Sarah Louise / Sally Anne Morgan) have now announced a run of European dates for this July.
We have the pleasure of sharing Toby Hay’s new single ‘Curlew (Part 1)’, a track on which he explores loss and grief, the circularity of time and its healing qualities. Taken from his new album ‘The Longest Day’, out on June 21st.
Toby Hay announces new album ‘The Longest Day’, the scope of which is broader than his debut. Set for release on the summer solstice the title track is released as the first single today, watch the accompanying video.
The range of musical genres covered, along with the technical prowess of the playing results in an album that is constantly riveting and fits a lot of beautiful music from six years’ of recording sessions, into thirty-nine minutes, without the suggestion of a seam. Highly recommended.
While certainly being the most challenging of Ryley Walker’s albums so far, with music this heady and contemporary blending to make something so cohesive and exciting, Ryley’s ‘Southside Chicago’ album is also arguably his best yet.
Watch Steve Dawson performing Bugscuffle as he showcases his unique tuning and voice on the Weissenborn lap guitar. Taken from his new album Lucky Hand that represents a high point of more than two decades of musical searching.
Sarah Louise’s Deeper Woods offers a broader sonic palette and the textures are more intricate and ambitious. The result is at once beautiful and beguiling; a hugely listenable spiritual abstract journey through deep and ancient landscapes, where there is always much to find and delight.
