Olivia Chaney’s ‘Circus of Desire’ is an album of great maturity, crystalline beauty and sometimes painful self-knowledge, one that marks her out as one of our finest singers and one of our most valuable and accomplished songwriters.
Six French Songs is Olivia Chaney’s spontaneous and celebratory review of the French chanson, from medieval ballad to 60s yé-yé pop classic. As we’ve come to expect from Olivia, her interpretations are sublime and enchanting.
Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Olivia Chaney has announced a run of UK dates in March 2019 in support of her acclaimed album Shelter, released on Nonesuch Records in June last year.
Part Three of our Best Folk Albums of 2018 includes Landless, Gwenifer Raymond, Jim Ghedi, Stick in the Wheel, Ross Ainslie, Fara, Sarah Louise, Jack Hayter, The Left Outsides, Nathan Bowles and more.
Even more so than its predecessor, Shelter is a series of teasingly enigmatic meditations leaving a distinct feeling that for all Olivia’s emotional candour there’s a persistent – albeit attractive – unknowability giving an added depth to her increasingly masterful songwriting.
Olivia Chaney has announced a follow-up to her 2015 Nonesuch debut, The Longest River. Shelter is set for release on June 15th and was produced by Thomas Bartlett. Watch the accompanying video for her new single IOU.
This week’s show has a strong leftfield and alternative feel to it. Some of the tracks are from albums released on small labels that we love: including Okraina Records, Folklore Tapes, Reverb Worship, Burst & Bloom, Cardinal Fuzz, North Western Recordings and Mega Dodo.
The Kronos Quartet plays alongside four labelmates – Sam Amidon, Olivia Chaney, Rhiannon Giddens, and Natalie Merchant – to transport traditional folk songs to new arrangements.
Olivia Chaney and The Decemberists join forces as Offa Rex. The resulting album, The Queen of Hearts, turns a nostalgic nod to the great British folk-rock albums of the late 60s and 70s but is equally assured in a fresh and contemporary way. It is a towering, majestic work.
The Queen of Hearts, the debut album from Offa Rex, a new project featuring Olivia Chaney and The Decemberists. It draws largely on traditional English-Irish-Scottish repertoire to create a transatlantic musical conversation that flirts with psychedelia and folk rock.
Nonesuch announces new Kronos Quartet album entitled Folk Songs on which they join forces with four labelmates—Sam Amidon, Olivia Chaney, Rhiannon Giddens, and Natalie Merchant.
Shirley Collins’ Lodestar performance at the Barbican is fresh and contemporary and avant-garde at times. The assembled musicians are nothing short of brilliant, the arrangements are in turns atmospheric, joyous, stirring and thrilling.
