Our Song of the Day is “The Green Chapel”, the first single from ‘The Old Fabled River’, the forthcoming new album from Alasdair Roberts og Völvur, the initiative of Norweigian fiddler Hans Kjorstad which features five additional Scandinavian musicians.
Taken from one of our all-time favourite albums and also our Song of the Day, watch the new video for Brave Marin, performed by Alasdair Roberts, Neil McDermott, Tartine de Clous.
On Fretted And Indebted, Alasdair Roberts brings focus to the traditional songs and singers that have inspired him and also illuminates some of his own considerable talents.
For their third cover single, Bill Callahan, and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy are joined by Alasdair Roberts for their unique reimagining of Dave Rich’s Nashville gospel number “I’ve Made Up My Mind”.
While this won’t be the only album of reworked material recorded in 2020, the strength of Alasdair Roberts early work means it will certainly be one of the best.
Christmas has come early, courtesy of Alasdair Roberts…Alasdair Roberts revisits his early Appendix Out days on new album The Songs of My Boyhood. Watch him performing Ice Age, our Song of the Day.
Few artists can so effectively use the strangeness of the old to pin down the strangeness of the new. The Fiery Margin achieves this with the vigour and surefootedness of an artist fully engaged with the world and yet never fully at peace with it.
Taken from their 2018 album Fathoms, our Song of the Day is ‘Down By The Greenwoodside’ by The Furrow Collective. Watch the accompanying new video by Maud Hewlings and catch them on tour during September.
On Green Ribbons, each singer brings something unique and subtly experimental to the table, and the result is a collection of songs that transcends genre and fuses the history of vocal music with the most exciting aspects of its present.
Listen to ‘Common Clay’, the new single from Alasdair Roberts, taken from his forthcoming new album The Fiery Margin. He is joined here by guest vocalist Mary Hampton & Neil Sutcliffe on accordion alongside his trio of ‘friends’: Ailbhe nic Oireachtaigh, Alex Neilson and Stevie Jones.
Green Ribbons is a project dedicated to the celebration of unaccompanied song. The current line-up features Debbie Armour, Frankie Armstrong, Alasdair Roberts and Benjamin “Jinnwoo” Webb. Watch their accompanying video for Garden Song from their forthcoming debut album.
On Au Cube is a buoyant rebuke of musical conservatism on which Alasdair Roberts is joined by Glasgow-based instrumentalist Neil McDermott and French traditional group Tartine de Clous.
Part One of our Best Folk Albums of 2018 includes Brigid Mae Power, Anna & Elizabeth, Aidan O’Rourke, Eamon O’Leary, Buck Curran, Cath & Phil Tyler, Dom Flemons, Kitty Macfarlane, Mike Vass, Toby Hay, Duncan Chisholm and more.
This brilliant, eclectic and challenging new folk and experimental compilation has attracted a stellar cast of contributors while raising vital money for vulnerable young people in Southend. All in a very worthwhile cause.
Curated by Diana Collier (The Owl Service) ‘A Place to Dwell’ is a new album compilation featuring Alasdair Roberts, Alex Neilson, Sharron Kraus, Nancy Wallace and more. All profits go to Southend YMCA, a small local charity which works with vulnerable and at-risk young people.
Watch the latest video from Alasdair Roberts, Amble Skuse, & David McGuinness for “The Fair Flower of Northumberland” from their new album “What News”. Filmed at the University of Glasgow it features the otherworldly presence of Glasgow-based performance artist Sgàire Wood.
While Alasdair Roberts throws a curve ball with the arrangements on his latest offering, aided by Amble Skuse & David McGuinness he places vocals and song firmly in the foreground. What News offers a set of minimalist music and vocal clarity that is starkly beautiful in all its boldness.
Avocet Revisited, a four track EP, was commissioned by Earth Recordings as a companion piece to Bert Jansch’s 1979 avian-themed masterstroke ‘Avocet’ featuring Edwyn Collins and Carwyn Ellis, Modern Studies, Alasdair Roberts, Trembling Bells.
