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.
