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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.

This month sees the Dead Rat Orchestra and Poland’s Sutari, two of the world’s most prominent avant-folk ensembles, join forces for a headline tour of the UK. We caught up with them both to talk about their own backgrounds and the tour.

Dead Rat Orchestra and Poland’s Sutari, two of the world’s most prominent avant-folk ensembles, are to join forces for a headline tour of the UK in July. Flying under the banner of Free Folk in Brexit Britain this is one you should make every effort to see.

This year’s Fanø Free Folk festival (21-23 July 2017) is looking greater than ever. Names include Ed Askew, Brigid Mae Power, Sutari, Dead Rat Orchestra, Stanley Brinks & Freschard, Sharron Kraus and more.

Nathaniel Mann’s latest project – SF Cody: Rushmoor Epic, is based on the life and antics of Wild West showman and early pioneer of manned flight, Samuel Franklin Cody. A new video provides a great overview of the project, an album is in the works for later this year.

Listen to The Food of Love Project, dedicated to Shakespeare’s legacy and featuring the likes of Alasdair Roberts, Kirsty Law, Rob St John, Dead Rat Orchestra, Stornoway, Thomas Truax, David Thomas Broughton and more.

British Broadsides sees Sam Lee, Lisa Knapp and Nathaniel Mann team-up and lead a five-piece band that will reinvent a collection of British Broadsides giving a rare insight into Britain’s music, literary and political history.

Introducing The Food of Love Project, a compilation album featuring some of the great names of folk music celebrating Shakespeare’s legacy: Alasdair Roberts, Dead Rat Orchestra, David Thomas Broughton, Stornoway, Thomas Truax and more.

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.

Tyburnia is a live soundtrack by the Dead Rat Orchestra to a film by James Holcombe which is on tour now. It takes its name from Tyburn which was a public execution site in London for over 700 years. Here those who fell foul of political, religious and judicial reforms enacted by the state were executed for public entertainment and instruction. In our first Guest Blog feature we hear from …

We have some great nights coming up for The Levels Collective at Bridgwater Art Centre in Somerset with Alasdair Roberts & Kitty MacFarlane this month followed by Solarference and The Dead Rat Orchestra in April and a special event in May featuring Sam Lee & Friends. It’s all happening so try and come on down.

For our third nautical entry from the Dead Rat Orchestra Nathaniel Mann provides us with ‘Observations from abroad the Gemini II – A compendium of waterways thought’.