Lost Words

The magic of Spell Songs (Karine Polwart, Julie Fowlis, Seckou Keita, Kris Drever, Rachel Newton, Beth Porter, and Jim Molyneux) returns in December with Let The Light In. Taken from the album watch the accompanying video to their new single ‘Oak’, led by Kris Drever.

Following a stunning gig at the Natural History Museum, the Spell Songs Ensemble announce a new album ‘The Lost Words: Spell Songs Volume II’ for November 2021 and Live Dates for 2022

For those that missed last nights Spell Song concert at London’s Natural History Museum, a fundraiser for the Urban Nature Project, it is now available to stream. You can also bid for and enter a raffle for some of Jackie Morris’ artwork.

On Tuesday 27 April 2021 Spell Songs will perform a unique live streamed concert to raise funds for the Natural History Museum’s Urban Nature Project. We chat to Jackie Morris, Karine Polwart, Seckou Keita, Julie Fowlis, Kris Drever, Jim Molyneux, Rachel Newton and Beth Porter as well as Lauren Hyams, Natural History Museum’s Head of Garden Activities.

The Lost Words : Spell Songs returns with Volume II – a new book, a new album, new concerts – and – a unique live-streamed concert from the Natural History Museum for 2021.

For those that missed Hudson Records Listening Club watch it on-demand. Featuring Andy Bell, Jackie Morris, Rachel Newton, Kris Drever, Julie Fowlis, Jim Molyneux, Beth Porter and Karine Polwart.

Read our interview with artist extraordinaire, Jackie Morris, the co-creator of The Lost Words, a breathtaking book, which directly informed our Featured Album of the Month The Lost Words: Spell Songs.

We talk to Scottish singer and song writer Karine Polwart about The Lost Words: Spell Songs project as well as how she sees her own relationship between music, landscape and place – “Music and storytelling is key, because both are such elemental forms of human interconnection.”

“The Lost Words” finally reaches us in the form of Spell Songs. Composed by eight of folk’s finest contemporary talents: Karine Polwart, Seckou Keita, Julie Fowlis, Kris Drever, Jim Molyneux, Kerry Andrew, Rachel Newton and Beth Porter, the songs bring us hope for the future.

David catches Spell Songs in London which brings together eight remarkable musicians, whose music engages deeply with landscape and nature, to respond to the creatures, art and language of The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris.

Commisioned by Folk by the Oak, Spell Songs brings together eight remarkable musicians, whose music already engages deeply with landscape and nature, to respond to the creatures, art and language of The Lost Words.