KLOF
KLOF Mixtape No. 84 ranges from folk to ambient experimental – featuring music from French composer Cécile Schott (Colleen), new offerings from Folk Police Recordings: “The Silent Harvest Volume One,” Ed Askew’s posthumous “The Final Painting,” Robin Katz’s “Hypnos,” plus music from Amarante-Cerisier, D. Rothon, The MerKaBa Brotherhood, Sailing Stones, Aure and more.
Thirteen tracks from KLOF’s recent listening pile. Kevin Morby, Creekbed Carter Hogan, Mary Hampton, Cinder Well, Yo La Tengo, Daughter of Swords and No-No Boy sit alongside two new arrivals — Damian Dalla Torre and Ts Bayandalai — plus a reading from Beat Poet Gregory Corso, and Jeff Parker closing things out on “Like Swimwear”.
May Day wears two faces — one rooted in nature and ritual, one rooted in struggle – International Workers’ Day. This extra-long Mixtape honours both, with Gil Scott-Heron’s enduring call to action, a Wampís-Aboutface collaboration drawn from the Peruvian Amazon, The MerKaBa Brotherhood’s hermetic ritual textures, the deep blues of Robert Petway, Bonny Billy’s communal warmth, and strange new turns from Tenniscoats, Trio Tekke and Wax Machine.
KLOF No. 81 opens with Hannah Peel and Beibei Wang’s rhythmic duet from The Endless Dance, moving through Cocanha’s radical French trad, Leenalchi’s pansori allegory for their Luaka Bop debut, and the first album of Himba music ever released from Northwest Namibia. Plus Shye Ben Tzur and Jonny Greenwood, Marisa Anderson, Mama’s Broke, Jim Moray, BCMC, Zoh Amba, Emily Portman, Anna McLuckie, Myer U Clark and more.
This week’s Mixtape reaches back through the decades — from Alasdair Roberts’ The Amber Gatherers and Sir Richard Bishop’s Tangier Sessions to a 1966 Folkways recording of classical Persian music from Iran — while keeping one ear on the present with new tracks from Juni Habel, Goblin Band, and Natalie Wildgoose. Folk songs, Castanets, Jason Molina, and a few other surprises along the way.
This week’s KLOF mixtape features Fust and Sluice, who share band members – Sluice’s exceptional Companion comes highly recommended. Brown Wimpenny get a double ahead of their debut album, while Wendy Eisenberg — whom Thomas Blake recently called “one of the most talented musical artists of their generation” — previews their self-titled, out tomorrow on Joyful Noise. Plus Plankton Wat, Brown Horse, Big Thief, Steve Gunn, and more.
The latest KLOF Mixtape moves from Félicia Atkinson & Christina Vantzou’s dreamlike soundscapes anchored in sea, sky and stone to the airy, pastoral improvisations of Prymek & Sage. Alongside new offerings from Sam Grassie, Magic Tuber Stringband, Juni Habel, Pan•American, Buck Meek and more, ancient folk recordings from Tibet and Greece complete a collection for unhurried listening.
KLOF’s new mixtape gathers thirteen tracks around a shared quality of patience and drift — from Juni Habel’s Nordic folk opener, Joshua Burnside’s haunting evocation of personal loss, to the closing shimmer of Félicia Atkinson & Christina Vantzou. The Notwist appear twice, and a trio recording from Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl and Macie Stewart is an unmissable highlight.
This week’s Mixtape stretches, twists, and shapeshifts — from Glasgow’s Uzganc choir to a collaboration between Weirs and The Magic Tuber Stringband, recorded inside Virginia’s pitch-black Crozet Tunnel. In between: music from Spencer Cullum, BIG|BRAVE, Wendy Eisenberg, Bill Orcutt, Mongolian artist Hugjiltu, Colleen, Prymek & Sage, balladeer Wheatie Mattiasich, harpist Rhodri Davies, and Oliver Barrett’s tender memorial to family and memory.
Our latest Mixtape pairs familiar KLOF favourites with a few artists that caught our attention recently. Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Gregory Uhlmann, Jesca Hoop, Kris Drever, SUSS, Setting, Adam Ross, Brown Wimpenny, Trippers & Askers and Riley/Radley — from Louisville folk to ambient guitar explorations to widescreen Americana, it’s an hour of sideways beauty that earns your full attention. Press play and let it run.
Our latest Mixtape draws together a constellation of artists we’ve been championing lately — Bill Callahan, Buck Meek, Tōth, The Notwist, Iron & Wine, Juni Habel, and more — alongside a few welcome discoveries. From highway-wide Americana to quietly devastating folk, sun-bleached indie to avant-garde drift, it’s an hour-plus of music that earns your full attention. Press play and let it run.