[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Gf0cGYhfU[/embedyt] We present our second session track, ‘Horace in Brighton’, from folk collective Bird In The Belly. The band have spent the last 12 months recording songs and stories that have either never before been recorded or are rarely…
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLwzjGnmqBU[/embedyt] Having released two albums in her native Greece, Irene Skylakaki makes her UK release debut with new EP Planet. Irene’s music is essentially singer-songwriter in style, but is performed in various ways: playing live with a string section;…
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HHf2wP-u_U[/embedyt] Our new session is with multi-instrumentalist Sephine Llo, with the title track from her recent album I, Your Moon. The album has particular poignancy after the death of Sephine’s husband and musical collaborator Robert Lloyd-Wilson (of Autumn Chorus),…
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c5tRQbBdr8[/embedyt] We’re pleased to present our latest session, with Bird in the Belly. The band are a collective made up of solo artist Jinnwoo, folk duo Hickory Signals, visual artist Epha Roe, and instrumentalist Tom Pryor. They’ve spent the…
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3LBdkebAr0[/embedyt] We conclude our session with William The Conqueror with another song from their recent album Proud Disturber of the Peace, ‘Manawatu’. Keep up with the band on Facebook and Twitter as well as on Spotify.
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKKVLp-yU9Y[/embedyt] We conclude our session with Saskia with ‘Write Me A Song’, also from her recent album Night & Day. You can keep up with Saskia on Facebook and Twitter as well as her own site, where you can…
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro5Z98Y8yfg[/embedyt] This is one for the all the artists out there. FM2U (From Me To You), created and hosted by Roxanne de Bastion, is an annual one-day conference for musicians that covers various aspects of making music in today’s…
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7C9v7v0clo[/embedyt] Having already established himself as a folk artist, Ruarri Joseph took on a new name of William the Conqueror, switched to a grungier country/Americana sound and formed a band to play it. Last year they released their debut…
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxBXCI63hJs[/embedyt] We kick off our 2018 sessions with Saskia Griffiths-Moore, and her roots-inspired, alt-acoustic folk. Since leaving her job as a biodynamic craniosacral (that’s spine and skull) therapist and committing to music full-time in 2014, Saskia hasn’t hung around.…
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyC-VbcO0Z0[/embedyt] Siobhan Wilson released her album, There are no saints, earlier this year and it’s really rather good. Siobhan combines accessible, emotional songwriting with strong musicianship across several instruments. And of course, her voice which shifts between style, intensity,…