May 2010

Phosphorescent - Here's To Taking It Easy

Phosphorescent – Here’s To Taking It Easy

by emusic 20 May 2010 Folk Music Reviews

Phosphorescent used to live in the wilderness. Their starlit 2007 record Pride was a raw, pre-verbal cry up at an open sky: a bunch of real-deal hippies, the kind who haven’t seen running water in five years, crooning songs of obscure devotion around a campfire. The songs were often nothing but mantras, sung in velvety [...]

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Jimi Hendrix in Britain

Jimi Hendrix in Britain + Glastonbury Video!

by Alex 20 May 2010 Folk Music News

Jimi Hendrix’s former London Mayfair home is to be opened up to the public in September this year to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his death. Hendrix rented the top floor flat for the princely sum of £30 per week with his girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham. The opening will form part of an exhibition called Hendrix [...]

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The Third & The Seventh - A short film

The Third & The Seventh

by Alex 19 May 2010 Art and Culture

The Third & The Seventh is a short film by Alex Roman. Architecture through the cinematographic lens. The visual fusion between the Third and Seventh arts – this brief description defines the declaration of aesthetic principles that underlies the “Third and Seventh” project: A full-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a [...]

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Rachael Dadd - After the Ant Fight

Rachael Dadd – After the Ant Fight

by Melanie McGovern 19 May 2010 Folk Music Reviews

Bristol based Rachael Dadd’s feet pretty much only touch ground when she hits the stage. For the past two or so years she has been touring almost constantly; playing shows in England and further afield Japan, whilst in-between times; stitching craft things and painting personalised record sleeves for sale at gigs. After the Ant Fight [...]

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Lizzie Nunnery – Company Of Ghosts

by Neil McFadyen 19 May 2010 Folk Music Reviews

Lizzie Nunnery, from Maghull in Merseyside,  has two EP releases under her belt and a string of successful live appearances. Her debut album Company Of Ghosts, released on Fellside Records, provides even more evidence of her performing and song writing prowess. I’m always glad to hear a regional accent in a singing voice and Lizzie’s [...]

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Allysen Callery - Hobgoblin's Hat

Allysen Callery – Hobgoblin’s Hat

by Melanie McGovern 19 May 2010 Folk Music Reviews

Following up 2007′s debut Hopey; Rhode Island based Allysen Callery released her second album Hobgoblin’s Hat in February this year. The LP’s title tips its hat to Finnish author Tove Jansson, of Moomins fame, who happens to be one of Callery’s favourites. In keeping with this fairytale Moominland her songs are a collectively dark form [...]

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T. G. Elias

T. G. Elias – ‘The Man In The Iron Cage’

by Mike Wilson 15 May 2010 Folk Music Reviews

You’re unlikely to be familiar with the name T. G. Elias. At present, Elias seems to spend his time travelling between small, select venues who provide valuable opportunities for underground musicians to take their first tentative steps, and reveal their wares to an audience full of expectation and preconception.

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John Martyn - Short Film Animation

John Martyn – Short Film Animation

by Alex 14 May 2010 Video

I just came across this brilliant short film animation. I know there are a lot of John Martyn fans who visit us so I thought you might enjoy this. Future Shorts presents Elliot Dear’s inspiring short animation about the legend John Martyn, the latest animation in the Music Matters campaign. Stay tuned to Music Matters [...]

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Live Review – Joanna Newsom at The Royal Festival Hall

by Melanie McGovern 13 May 2010 Live Reviews

Joanna Newsom has come a long way since her 2004 debut The Milk Eyed Mender: a collection of short heartfelt songs, almost nursery rhymes telling of mollusc weddings and dragons. Written by an Elfin-like creature who appears to be a modern incarnation of Pre-Raphaelite painting The Lady of Shallot, she sings in a shrill accapella [...]

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Kirsty Almeida

Kirsty Almeida

by Alex 13 May 2010 Folk Music Reviews

The age of cabaret is not dead. Bellowhead did a fine job with a grand stage performance. Now check this! Kirsty Almeida brings Eccentricity and abandonment in heaped doses to bring an altogether new recipe and magical performance. Musical dresses, circular doors, chirping toy birds, sonic hallucinations: in Kirsty Almeida we’ve the return, at last, [...]

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Seth Lakeman making Hearts and Minds Video – Exclusive

by Alex 12 May 2010 Video

Seth Lakeman was the last person I expected to turn up in our local pub, The Oak, Clevedon. But after a phone call from a mate saying, “Alex, come to the Oake, Seth Lakeman is here, this isn’t a wind-up, honest!” I went, arrived, and there he was sat playing fiddle with Benji Kirkpatrick along [...]

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Open House Festival Line-up Announcement

by Alex 11 May 2010 Folk Music News

Some great news on the line-up for this years Open House Festival which is looking like the Americana gig of the year! The Dave Rawlings Machine, fronted by long-time musical partner of Americana singer songwriter Gillian Welch, are to play an exclusive Irish debut at this year’s Open House Festival in Belfast on Saturday 11th [...]

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Johhny Flynn - Been Listening

Johhny Flynn – A sneak peak at his new album

by Melanie McGovern 10 May 2010 Folk Music Reviews

We got a sneak peak of Johnny Flynn’s second LP, Been Listening, due for release on 7th June by UK independent label Transgressive Records; home to folksters on both sides of the Atlantic: Iron & Wine and Jeremy Warmsley most notably.

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Session #2 – Jake Beattie

by Alex 10 May 2010 Features

We have three exclusive acoustic tracks on offer today from Brighton based Jake Beattie who will be a newcomer to most of you. He has an unmistakeable voice, perfect for etching out his powerful and poignant tales. His voice has both a warmth and raw timbre that can carry both powerful and emotive whispered delivery.

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Session #1: Emily and the Woods

by Alex 9 May 2010 Features

Emily and the Woods is the very first Frukie Session to be recorded exclusively for Folk Radio UK and we hope there will be many more to follow. It was at the Communion launch night in Bristol that I first heard Emily and the Woods. There was a problem with her guitar so microphones were [...]

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Juana Molina – Salvese Quien Pueda

by Alex 7 May 2010 Folk Music Reviews

I just remembered this great track (re-version) of Juana Molina’s, “Salvese Quien Pueda”. It’s taken from the Salvese Quien Pueda ep and includes two Four Tet remixes although this one is “Juanas Epic Re-version”. You can download it here. You’ll be hearing more from Juana soon on our Frukie Channel.

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Fat Cat Records Free Sampler

by Alex 7 May 2010 Downloads

Here’s a great free sampler from Fat Cat Records. It was originally released as a CD for giveaway through indie records stores and features Tom Brosseau, Nina Nastasia and Bulky Mule as well as others from the label. It’s not a folk sampler OK…

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Ali Farka Touré and Ry Cooder - Talking Timbuktu

Songs from the Past #1: Ali Farka Touré and Ry Cooder

by Alex 7 May 2010 Folk Music Reviews

With a recent promise of Songs from the Past I spent some time looking back through our audio library which was very time consuming but a nostalgic experience. I came across this: Ali Farka Touré and Ry Cooder – Talking Timbuktu.

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