Iona Lane

While she grew up in Yorkshire, Iona Lane’s new album, Swilkie, is a love song to Scotland’s islands and the people who live there, and an impassioned plea for the conservation of wild spaces and communities on the margins. A relative newcomer to the region, she spoke to KLOF about how she came to know and love her adopted homeland, and how it came to inform her music.

Iona Lane’s Swilkie is a masterful album full of heartfelt emotion and breathtaking songwriting, and the additional disc of live recordings casts the whole album as a journey from solo endeavour to collaboration, from the bud of an idea to a fully-realised work of art.

Taken from her forthcoming new album ‘Swilkie’, Highlands-based songwriter Iona Lane premieres the video for her graceful new single ‘Torus’ (out on 14th Feb), inspired by humans’ changing historical relationship with basking sharks.

Bring The Tide In is a rather lovely ebb-and-flow quartet of poignancy-tinged songs that serve as a reminder of Iona Lane’s luminescent talent and is hopefully an early signpost of a new album in the not-too-distant future.

Watch the new video from Glasgow-based folk singer and songwriter Iona Lane for ‘Bring the Tide In’, her new single and title track of her forthcoming EP on which she is joined by Lucy Farrell, Malin Lewis and Euan Burton.

Taken from their new Cove EP (out now on HudsonRecords), watch Iona Lane & Ranjana Ghatak performing ‘Vaishnava Jana To/Quiet Joys of Brotherhood’ – a devotional piece regularly heard and sung in India and poem by Richard Fariña.

Iona Lane & Ranjana Ghatak’s ‘Cove’ is a beguiling and transfixing EP providing a memorable listening experience. The juxtaposition of two beautiful voices from such diverse musical backgrounds is a thing of great beauty.

Combining music from both of their backgrounds, on their Cove EP, Iona Lane and Ranjana Ghatak create a beautiful soup of ethereal goodness. Listen to their lead single, ‘Vaishnava Jana To / Quiet Joys of Brotherhood.’

Iona Lane recently participated in Making Tracks, an international music exchange programme. While there, she recorded a lovely session at Peaton Layo beach. She performs Western Tidal Swell on a beautiful Taran guitar, the song is taken from her stunning debut album Hallival.

Driven by awe and wonder, hope and joy, Iona Lane’s ‘Hallival’ is a masterful debut. Subtle musical touches and contemplative warm vocals combine to make this one of the most rewarding albums of the year.

Taken from her forthcoming debut album Hallival, watch the accompanying video to ‘Humankind’ the beautiful and poetic lead single from Leeds-based folk singer songwriter Iona Lane.