Folk

In memory of Chris Broderick of the Singing Loins, who passed away earlier this year, we present a new studio album by Wild Billy Childish and Arf and Rob from The Singing Loins. The Fighting Temeraire contains new songs, old songs re-worked, traditional...

In February of 2021, Anna collaborated with Portland musician friends Galen Clark and Micah Hummel to reimagine a collection of songs from previous releases as well as one from an album due out next year. The resulting project, 'Blue World,' is a sparse...

In exile from his city in Northern Mali, singer/songwriter Ahmed AgáKaedyáreturns to the origins of Tuareg folk with sessions of stripped down solo acoustic guitar. Mellow pentatonic notes dance over plaintive vocals, intimate and closeámic'd, endearing...

In a particularly dark and moody period of Sibylle's young life, a friend Claudine dragged her out from under the bed and took her on a road trip to Strasbourg, France ending up across the Alps in Genoa, Italy. Upon the return from this trip Sibylle felt...

In a generation of musicians that came of age in postwar Japan, Kazuki Tomokawa stands as a pioneer of radical individualism, with a sound marked by shocking intimacy and blistering honesty. In his third album, A String of Paper Cranes Clenched between...

In 2020 Brooklyn's Holy Hive introduced us all to something we didn't know we needed. Homer Steinweiss' thickly pocketed drumming paired with Paul Spring's floaty falsetto vocal produces a sound that's like a salve. It's been dubbed Folk Soul and Holy...

In 2015, a successful bid of ú3,560 (some ?5 million) was made on a single album on eBay - this was the 1972 original UK press of Folkal Point's album. This album had remained shrouded in mystery for more than 4 decades without ever being officially...

In 1979, Chris Jones and Charlie Carr came together to record some of their own songs along with a few traditional pieces. The tapes of this recording lay hidden in the Stockfish archive for 40 years, only to resurface again in 2019. Stockfish Records is...

In 1975 Wallace 'Wally' Smith Broecker published a paper that popularised the term 'global warming' and against a backdrop of change and environmental uncertainty, a musical concept album was commissioned. 'Wilderness America / A Celebration of the Land'...

In 1974, Jeremiah Sand and his nascent cult The Children Of The New Dawn decamp LA for the Shasta Mountain region and Redding, CA. They set up shop, begin printing leaflets, hold gatherings and start growing their ranks through recruitment. Jeremiah and...

In 1974, Jeremiah Sand and his nascent cult The Children Of The New Dawn decamp LA for the Shasta Mountain region and Redding, CA. They set up shop, begin printing leaflets, hold gatherings and start growing their ranks through recruitment. Jeremiah and...

In 1967, Fontana Records released 'Watch The Stars', an album of folk, blues and haikus by stunning Los Angeles vocalist Dorris Henderson, with John Renbourn, the peerless guitar player whose solo work, and that with Bert Jansch, had marked him out as...