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PREMIERE: Nancy Gaffield and The Drift – ‘Song Of The Shingle’: Kent’s High Weald evoked in music and poem

THERE’S been a little upswell in recent times of interesting and brilliantly evocative collaborations exploring the spoken word and the poetic, and how that plays against music. Slowly unfolding atmospheres,…

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SEE: Sophie Jamieson – ‘Concrete’: a siren song of a road accident teases for her EP

THEY say write about what you know; and Sophie Jamieson is a returning artist with a captivating voice who is absolutely unafraid of such a prospect. She’s been preparing for…

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See: The Staves release live version of new single ‘Good Woman’

Following on from the news that The Staves will release their third album on 5th February 2021, the band have just released a very special live version of the title track, ‘Good…

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SEE: Jim Ghedi – ‘Beneath The Willow’; new album in January

MODERN fingerpicking scion Jim Ghedi has announced he’s releasing a new album in January; and he’s just released a video and short film for the first single to be taken…

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SEE: Ailsa Tully’s ‘Drive’: sweet bass-driven folk-pop from the Welsh borders

DALLIANCE RECORDINGS, the boutique label that’s already garnered the loveliness of Gia Margaret and Common Holly to its hearthside, has hit a triple score on singer-songwriters by adding Welsh border…

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Premiere: Desure releases new track and visuals for the beautifully melancholy Hi/Lo

Los Angeles Desure, aka Joshua Desure, is gearing up for the release of his Pollen EP, out on November 20th, and ahead of it, we’re delighted to premiere the lyric…

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LIVE REVIEW: Richard Dawson, The Barbican, London

YOU HAVE to take your hat off to everyone at the Barbican – and, as we were told by Erland Cooper in the very first of these sessions – a…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Adam Stafford – ‘Diamonds Of A Horse Famine’: atmospheric folk set from the notebooks

Diamonds Of A Horse Famine is a lyrically precise and freewheelin' folk set, reviving a rediscovered notebook. Erotic Thistle contends for folk song of the year

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NEWS: Rozi Plain concludes subscriber-only V I S I T ▲ T I O N S series for Lost Map

LOST MAP RECORDS, the beautifully curated imprint run by The Pictish Trail’s Johnny Lynch from the Scottish island Eigg, has a second series of V I S I T ▲ T…

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LIVE REVIEW: Erland Cooper, The Barbican, London: bringing the soul of Orkney to the heart of the capital

TO THE Barbican, that beautiful, brutalist residential and cultural hub in London EC2: for a gig. A gig! Livestream or not, it’s a red letter day in 2020. Ah ……

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