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Krista Detor – Chocolate Paper Suites

4 March, 2010

Krista Detor is one of those slow-burning artists, who quietly turns out albums brimming with classy and engaging songs, portraying a view of life that is sometimes wry, and always thoughtful. Listeners fall at her feet following their first encounter, and whole audiences find themselves quickly under Krista’s spell, eating out of the palm of her hand. [click to continue…]

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Adelaide’s Cape – New act to watch out for

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Adeliade’s Cape is the name given to the work of Edinburgh born songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sam Taylor, and the often changing collective of musicians that contribute and bring that larger sound to his work. His influences vary from Nick Drake, Richard Thompson, Fleet Foxes, Martin Simpson, Johnny Flynn, samba, John Betjeman, Ted Hughes to the [...]

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Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose – Review of Bridge Carols (plus free download)

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Bridge Carols, the new project from Portland, OR friends Laura Gibson and Ethan Rose, began as a conversation of mutual appreciation and curiosity – a shared desire to challenge old ways of working. Ethan had mostly distanced his music from words, while Laura had often felt bound by them.

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Lawrence Arabia with their Swinging Video! plus free download

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Whilst Bella Union try and persuade fans that it is untrue that the only bands they sign are american with a tinge of beardy folk they lump in artist LAWRENCE ARABIA to their ever growing roster of artists that we can never get enough of. Lawrence Arabia is the pseudonym of James Milne, born 1981 [...]

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Valgeir Sigurdsson – Draumalandið

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The official release of Valgeir Sigurdsson’s Draumalandið (Dreamland) is today! This is an original-soundtrack album from the film Dreamland, with music written for a + 20 piece chamber ensemble and electronics. The recording features Nico Muhly (arrangements, piano, celesta, harmonium), Sam Amidon (vocals, banjo, guitar) Ben Frost (electronics),

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tUnE-yArDs rock Cargo

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Tune Yards caught my attention a while back when 4AD released a video of Meril Garbus performing in studio. I’m not going to post it again…but I was hunting around the net to find out what Tune Yards had been up to and came across this live footage at Cargo this week.

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Keston Cobblers’ Club

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I happened upon Keston Cobblers’ Club on myspace recently. After watching this video I think you’ll agree that they are something very special and are certainly worth keeping an eye on as they are bound to get very popular!

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Shearwater – The Golden Archipelago + free download

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An explorer, ecologist, and folk hero, Jonathan Meiburg is the Jacques Cousteau of indie-rock. A former graduate student with a specialty in geography and ornithology, the Shearwater frontman named both his Austin, Texas-based band and their critically-acclaimed 2008 album Rook after types of birds, and his gorgeously pastoral music examines nature with a scientist’s eye.

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Breabach – The Desperate Battle of the Birds

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The long awaited second album from Breabach titled The Desperate Battle of the Birds is due for release on 22nd March. Breabach caught the attention of Folk Radio UK and many celtic folk music fans back in 2007 with release of their debut album “The Big Spree”. They had a very clear Scottish stamp [...]

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Bellevue Rendezvous – Salamander

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The artwork for Salamander greets you with a vibrant warmth: a glowing and alluring amalgam of reds and oranges that is both classy and intense. It is therefore the perfect visual embodiment of the aural splendour that awaits the listener, for the music presented on Salamander is all of these things… and so much more.

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In the Pipe

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Just a few updates of things to come on FRUK…we’ve been inundated with music submissions so we’ve been catching up following the rebuild of our website in early January this year, we’ve still got a lot of catching up but we’re getting there. There are new artists and albums arriving on both streams that I [...]

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Midlake – The Courage of Others

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Midlake have just released their third album The Courage of Others which has already been primed by Mojo as possibly the album of the year. They have spent the last three years making this album which has led them on a musical journey they have never been on before. They have discovered Fairport, Steeleye Span [...]

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Michael McGoldrick – Aurora

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There’s always a sense of anticipation when you hear news that one of your favourite musicians has just released a new album and of course, I just had to obtain a copy of this latest offering from Michael McGoldrick. Also, it is highly unlikely that you will be disappointed as proves the case from the [...]

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Imagined Village – Empire and Love (plus free download)

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To the opening strains of Sheema Mukerjhee’s sitar joined by Mr Carthy’s trademark guitar the Imagined Village cross fertilisation of different cultures continues apace with a clever re-interpretation of the ballad “My Son John” utilising a more chilling, modern ‘take’ on the song’s powerful anti-war

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Balmorhea – Constellations (New album plus free download)

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Balmorhea’s previous album All is Wild, All is Silent explored the freedom and isolation of settlers learning to live on an untamed frontier. It was an intensely physical album, dealing with the struggles of man on earth. By contrast, their new album Constellations shifts our focus to the cosmos and beyond, meditating solemnly on the [...]

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Megan Henwood – What Elliott Said

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Megan Henwood was a winner of the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Awards 2009. She has just released a single which we have the pleasure of adding to our Roots stream here on Folk Radio UK. There is a purity about Megan’s singing that falls outside of genre tags. She is simply a great [...]

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The Heavy

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This isn’t the dish we normally serve up on Frukie but we just can’t resist the talents of The Heavy, plus they are local! In Noid, a tiny hamlet situated to the south west of Bath, some of the most dangerous and ill sounding beats and riffs are being created by four wolf like personalities. [...]

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