Featuring two quiet stalwarts of the instrumental scene, American fiddle player Mike Gangloff and British fingerstyle guitar ace C Joynes, the music of ‘Tom Winter, Tom Spring’ is fluid and confident, balancing dense intensity with lighter foot-tappers and spacious abstracts. It’s quite a thing.
Poor Boy on the Wire is as balanced and diverse a set of songs as you would expect from C Joynes, one of our more experimental and musically itinerant guitarists. Beautifully played and delicately handled, it is an album for the discerning listener.
Enjoy unique guitar playing with breathtaking creativity and a new Collective approach to traditional tunes on the latest Betwixt & Between Tapes instalment featuring guitarist extraordinaire C Joynes and the Shovel Dance Collective.
Stick In The Wheel return with their second volume of explorations and collaborations with “Against The Loathsome Beyond”, featuring collaborations with C Joynes, Jack Sharp and Cinder Well.
Led by C Joynes and featuring members of the Dead Rat Orchestra, plus Cam Deas and Nick Jonah Davis, The Borametz Tree is layered and intelligent, finding art and inspiration from many places. This particular result is something that really should be heard.
Alasdair Roberts reveals his new video for ‘Pangs,’ the title track of his new album due for release tomorrow. Also don’t miss his UK and Ireland tour dates on which he’s joined by Stevie Jones and Alex Neilson.
Nick Jonah Davis’s ‘House of Dragon’ scores deservedly high with Folk Radio UK. “I doubt if I will come across a better album this year if I ever do it will be a considerable piece of work.”
Whilst Fahey and Basho may well cast a long shadow in the field of acoustic guitar that you’d need to travel far to get away from, C. Joynes and Nick Jonah Davis demonstrate on Split Electric they are well down that road.
Our Tune of the Day is Triennale, performed live by C. Joynes & Dead Rat Orchestra. The performance was recorded at The Dentist, a great venue in Chatswrth Road, London. It was filmed by Harry Wheeler, the man behind Harmonic Rooms.
Our Song of the Day is from is from CWK Joynes & The Restless Dead and features in an ongoing series of collaborative limited edition 7″ releases. Also features Phil Tyler, Pete Um & Woodcraft Folk.
Our Song of the Day is from Stephanie Hladowski & C. Joynes as featured on their beautiful debut album The Wild Wild Berry released in 2012 via Bo’ Weavil Recordings.
