Folk
TRACK: Erland Cooper shares ‘Holm Sound’ ahead of this weekend’s streamed Barbican show
THE DELICATE and psychogeographic recent canon of Orcadian Erland Cooper has, to partially quote Camper Van Beethoven, “increased by exactly one” today, with the release of the gossamer piano yearn of “Holm Sound” ahead of this Saturday’s Barbican performance. He evokes in sound that stretch of water separating Mainland from Barray, adjacent to the village …
Exclusive: Michael Bernard Fitzgerald records ‘I Love That Sound’ in session for Backseat Mafia
With his album ‘Love Valley’ out at the end of the week, we’re delighted that Canadian singer-songwriter Michael Bernard Fitzgerald has recorded an At Home Session exclusively for Backseat Mafia, featuring one of the songs Taken from the album, I love that sound. The album saw Michael make a set of songs that are warm …
TRACK: Laura Fell – ‘Cold’: second single from an amazing new voice
HOT off the back of her brilliant – nay, jawdropping – debut single, “Bone Of Contention”, London singer, songwriter and psychotherapist Laura Fell today releases “Cold”, yet another slice of intelligent acoustic songsmithery – with that voice. If you didn’t catch up with “Bone Of Contention”, follow through on the link above; prepare to swoon …
See: Kitchman / Schmidt release new video for Anne Briggs inspired ‘Lowlands’
Out on November 27th is the new album from Jazz/Folk guitarist James Kitchman and vocalist Sylvia Schmidt – ‘As Long As Songbirds Sing’, and ahead of it, the pair have released their debut single, the Anne Briggs inspired ‘Lowlands’. On the origins of their version of the song – which Briggs sung on her seminal …
Exclusive: Alasdair Roberts records ‘Seagulls, Belts’ for Backseat Mafia live in session
Nearly 20 years after dropping his Appendix Out moniker, the name he used for his early output that put him firmly on the Folk map, Alasdair Roberts revisited it for his recent album ‘The Songs of My Boyhood’, which came out digitally recently on the acclaimed Drag City label. Mixing things up somewhere between Scottish …
ALBUM REVIEW: Kris Drever – ‘Where The World Is Thin’: a fine, open and wise set from Orcadian folk star
IF YOU’RE a gig veteran, whichever your chosen poison in terms of bands or genres, I bet you can in one sphere break down your gig experiences thus. Some bands you see – maybe that upcoming, hotly tipped support, you turn to your friends at the end of the night and say: “Yeah, quite fun …
TRACK: Adam Stafford – ‘Diamonds Of A Horse Famine’: an eerie, dream-state blues
ADAM STAFFORD, Song, By Toad’s rather excellent Falkirk folk guitarist, has just released the title track of his forthcoming LP Diamonds of a Horse Famine for your delectation. And a very fine and atmospheric, dreamstate rattlin’ blues it is. Cop a listen below. It’s another track culled from a notebook of half-finished ideas that Adam …
SEE: Sophie Jamieson – ‘Release’: a stunning folktronic search for feeling
FIVE YEARS away from music – but Sophie Jamieson has lost not a jot of her musical acuity. A recording session all that time ago collapsed leaving Sophie uncertain after her lauded debut EP, Where; self-doubt built upon self-doubt and she retreated. But she’s dusted herself down, going on tour with Charlie Cunningham across Europe …
PREMIERE: See the video for Arch Garrison’s ‘Open My Eye’: warm psych-country track trails tomorrow’s LP; live stream news
ARCH GARRISON, the ‘other’ project of North Sea Radio Orchestra’s Craig Fortnam, have a rather lovely album of pastoral psych-folk, The Bitter Lay, out tomorrow on Believer’s Roast. It’s an album steeped in the landscape of the chalk downs; of spindle-whorls turned up by the plough, of seemingly endless old drove roads cresting the ridges; …
Track: Sally Anne Morgan releases ‘Polly On The Shore’
It’s getting mighty crowded in the psych-folk district right now. So to stand out you need that little something else … enter Sally Anne Morgan. A fiddler, banjo player and vocalist with a growing reputation as a member of the Black Twig Pickers and the duo House and Land, the time is so right for …