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New Arrivals

Cotton Jones

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A new arrival on the station is Cotton Jones. The music of Cotton Jones speaks of transition: the passage from one form, state of mind, style or place to another. Songs become doorways to the past, or windows that open on some unnamed future, where innocence can still exist and perfection is thrown to the [...]

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Matt Bauer and Dana Falconberry release split single

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I first came across Matt Bauer in 2006 when he released an e.p. called Wasps and White Roses. It featured a neo-traditional version of Sea Lion Woman a traditional American folk song which hooked me. It led me on a bit of a musical journey which led to many other great artists including Alela Diane, [...]

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Introducing Lower Dens

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Swarming guitar fuzz, bass waves, Jana Hunter’s voice, and insistent drum throbs are the core components of Baltimore’s Lower Dens. Hunter, sometimes known for intimate, ghost-heavy weird-fi, is now writing and playing with a group that might get filed as new wave, or drone pop, or post-punk. With due deference to her solo work, we’re [...]

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Introducing: Sarah Blasko

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Sarah Blasko recently performed at The Flowerpot in London, collaborating with Angus & Julia Stone as part of a Communion Club Night. The extension of the Communion umbrella to Australia has resulted in some fine artists joining the ranks for extra exposure in Europe. Sarah Blasko is certainly one to watch out for. Bjorn Yttling [...]

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Dark Night of the Soul

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Dark Night Of The Soul is a music and visual art project instigated and helmed by Danger Mouse. This unique, unconventional endeavour unites a wonderful album length piece of music by Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse and a host of guest vocalists with a collection of original David Lynch photography. David Lynch’s imagery is wholly inspired by [...]

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Introducing: J Irvin Dally

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Introducing J Irvin Dally. $5 for his new EP, you can’t go wrong! Get Despistado. Dally will be hitting the road in early September on a US west coast tour. Full details are yet to be confirmed but in the meantime check him out.

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Introducing: Jasper Sloan Yip

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Jasper Sloan Yip is a multi-genre singer/songwriter with a dynamic and versatile band behind him. His musical career began with the release of his solo debut “White Elephant” under the moniker “the Blenheim Street Project” in the summer of 2007. Recorded at home with a single broken microphone, “White Elephant” was the first and only [...]

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Sonny and the Sunsets

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Sonny and the Sunset’s vintage-style west coast pop songs tell sordid tales of death, drowning, outcasts, heavenly visions and otherworldly despair. Their newest LP, Tomorrow is Alright radiates with a classic yet indefinable sound, almost like a futuristic 50’s R&B. California native Sonny Smith started his career playing in a blues piano bar nestled in [...]

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Nina Nastasia – Outlaster

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The following two tracks on offer as free downloads are taken from Nina Nastasia’s latest album Outlaster. Outlaster was released in June this year, lushly orchestrated, unlike her earlier work.

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Balky Mule

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The Balky Mule is Bristol based Sam Jones, he recently performed to great tracks for the Brixton Sessions site covering summery versions of ‘Dust Bird Baths’ and ‘Wireless’, both taken from his 2009 album The Length of the Rail.

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Interview with Brendan Glasson of Vio/Miré

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It’s a very rare occurrence to stumble upon an artist whom you find to be both refreshing yet somehow like an old friend, in the stories they share and the emotions they stir up. Watching Rhode Island’s Brendan Glasson play under the moniker Vio/Miré on Wednesday night; supporting David Thomas Broughton; was just one of those occasions.

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Saltfishforty – Netherbow

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The mighty Saltfishforty, comprising of Orcadians Douglas Montgomery on fiddle/viola and Brian Cromarty on guitar, mandola and vocals have steadily been wowing audiences with their infectious and feisty rhythms since the release of their debut album Goose Music way back in 2003.

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Martha Tilston – Lucy & The Wolves

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Martha Tilston’s Lucy & The Wolves is her third solo album (although her backing band The Woods feature heavily throughout ) and is her first new album since 2007’s Of Milkmaids and Architects (2008’s Till I Reach the Sea being a compilation EP). The album marks a move away from the more political and social [...]

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Gabe McVarish – Eclection

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Gabe McVarish hails from Northern California where he learned his first traditional tunes on the fiddle. Having twice won the U.S. Junior National Scottish Fiddle Championship by the age of seventeen, Gabe travelled to his ancestral homeland of the Scottish Highlands where he spent a year studying music under the tutelage of fiddler and tradition [...]

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Peter Wolf Crier – Inter-Be

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Inter-Be is the debut album by PETER WOLF CRIER, the Minneapolis-based duo of Peter Pisano and Brian Moen. The album was born on a single summer night when Pisano felt a torrent of creativity after what had felt, to him, like an interminably long dry spell. He shared the songs with Moen, and over the [...]

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The Staves – Review / Interview

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The Staves, comprising of sisters Jessica, Camilla and Emily, are a melodious folk trio from Watford who are garnishing some well deserved praise for their infectious and seductive harmonies. Their new EP, “Facing West” is an excellent introduction to the girls’ music and a real promise of treats to come.

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Wig Smith – A Means of Escape Through a Hedge

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Wig Smith is the other half of folk duo The Hand which comprises Bristol singer-songwriter Rachael Dadd. At the end of April he announced the release of his solo debut A Means of Escape Through a Hedge. There was little background information I could track down on this album other than the plentiful insights from [...]

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Duncan Chisholm – Canaich

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Duncan Chisholm has released Canaich, the second instalment in his Strathglass triology, on Copperfish Records. This follows on from Farrar, the award winning first album in the trilogy, inspired by the highland landscapes populated by his ancestors. In 1988 Duncan Chisholm was a founder member of Wolfstone; within two years the band had become a [...]

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Jim Moray – In Modern History

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Following on from his third album, Low Culture, Jim Moray has delivered another outstanding work which flawlessly mixes traditional song with modern sensibilities and musical arrangements. In an entirely characteristically brave move Moray has taken the decision to pre-release In Modern History to a wide audience as a free 8 track CD through Songlines Magazine [...]

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Damien O’kane – Summer Hill

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Given his work with Flook, Shona Kipling and, more recently, his partner Kate Rusby, I expected Damien O’Kane’s debut solo album to be a collection of perfectly executed banjo tunes with the occasional song. Oh how I love to be educated. I was wrong; very, very wrong. In Summer Hill Damien has given us something [...]

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Andy Cutting – Andy Cutting

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Andy Cutting is much in demand, and has been for some time, even more so since he won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Musician of the Year award in 2008. At last, though, he’s found time to put together a CD in his own name. This first release on Lane Records from Derby is available [...]

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Matt Sage – Let the Music Out

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Described by Gilles Peterson as “a great artist” Matt Sage started out in a band with musicians who moved on to find success working with Faithless and Dido, after which he turned his efforts to solo projects while holed up on a canal boat in Oxfordshire. Since then he has played at WOMAD, started up [...]

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