Folk
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Audiopile Review: You might have heard about this one. Tristwch y Fenywod caused a bit of a critical stir upon emerging onto the scene and has recently been popping up on some prestigious year-end lists. Indeed, The Quietus placed this UK three-piece’s debut album at number two in its albums...
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Audiopile Review: You might have heard about this one. Tristwch y Fenywod caused a bit of a critical stir upon emerging onto the scene and has recently been popping up on some prestigious year-end lists. Indeed, The Quietus placed this UK three-piece’s debut album at number two in its albums...
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The set was recorded on Sunday, May 28 2017 at the Snorfabriek in Utrecht by Andreas Geursen who spoke welcome and farewell. It took place as a Radio Resistencia Session, initiated by Martijn Van Gessel (Enfant Terrible / Vrystaete). "First record to hatch from the serpent’s egg of Würzburg’s Quirlschlängle...
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With its ethereal, buzzing acoustic riffs, helix of resonant drones and vocal delivery that often sounds like an ancient form of prayer, Only the Void Stands Between Us sure-footedly takes its place in the post-‘70s experimental folk lineage. “This is cosmic folk of the highest caliber. Julie’s vocal melodies grow...
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Following her acclaimed new solo album, Bow To Love, Isobel Campbell today announces the reissue of Ballad Of The Broken Seas, the debut album by Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, due out 22nd November via Cooking Vinyl and available to preorder here. To coincide with the announcement Campbell has shared...
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Coyote Butterfly is the first album of new songs in two years from singer-songwriter, Simon Joyner, following the overdose death of his son, Owen, in August of 2022. Drawing on the kaleidoscopic nature of grief, Joyner explores his loss through a series of imagined dialogues and raw confessions. The album...
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Omaha, Nebraska native and singer/songwriter SIMON JOYNER has been writing about the dizzy and dark aspects of the human condition since 1992. The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll was originally released in 1994, on Sing, Eunuchs!, exclusively on vinyl, and marks the first major critical milestone in Joyner’s lauded career....
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Merope's most experimental full length to date, Vėjula is a celebration of collaboration and playfulness, and features appearances from Shahzad Ismaily, Laraaji and Bill Frisell. Like its predecessors, the duo's fifth album still roots itself in Lithuanian folk forms, but sprouts out spiritedly from that point into unfamiliar landscapes, muddling...
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A selection of brooding, haunting Turkish tango recordings from the decades following the foundation of the republic in the early 1920s through to the mid 1950s....
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Audiopile Review: The wildly rare 1978 Moondog LP, “H’Art Songs” (a combination of Art Songs and his last name, Hardin), is mercifully reissued for the first time since it’s quiet appearance almost 50 years ago. Outside of the cheeky “Enough About Human Rights!”, which was included on Honest Jon’s fantastic...
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Intimate early recording by Malian icon. Awesome Tapes From Africa the label began over 10 years ago with the reissue of Nahawa Doumbia’s Vol. 3. The recording kicked off a successful run of classic and new recordings from...
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Van Zandt's subject matter had not changed much in the seven years between recordings, as was apparent only a few lines into the leadoff track, "A Song For," when Van Zandt spoke-sang, "I'm weak and I'm weary of sorrow." In fact, he wasn't weary of enumerating the causes of...
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Audiopile Review: What’s likely to be the final release this year from Blod (but who knows!), the decade-long project from Sweden’s Gustaf Dicksson, is also one of the more perplexingly straight forward that we’ve encountered, particularly after the abstracted tape crunching collab with Shadow Pattern released just prior. Gathering a...
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Jonas Torstensen returns to Discreet Music with the second Franciska album, following up the much praised Tryghed (Discreet Music 12) that was released in early 2023. Since Tryghed came out, Franciska has quickly become an established forefront of a young, new generation of Scandinavian experimental DIY musicians. This time a...
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Audiopile Review: New pressing of a Jon Collin LP that was issued earlier this year via Italian boutique imprint Laboratorio Palestro in a tiny edition of 100 copies. We blinked and missed that one. Most of you did.Thankfully Collin himself has done a quick reissue on his own imprint Early...
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Acony Records is proud to present Woodland, the new album by Gillian Welch & David Rawlings. Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee at Welch and Rawlings' own Woodland Sound Studio. Mastered directly from the original tapes through custom Ortofon amplifiers to a Neumann VMS-80 cutting system. Produced by David Rawlings....
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Sourced from the Original Master Tapes and Pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl for Reference Playback: Mobile Fidelity's Numbered-Edition 33RPM SuperVinyl Mono LP Features the Direct Sound Dylan Intended 1/4" / 15 IPS analog mono master to DSD 256 to analog console to lathe Bob Dylan's self-titled 1962 debut is as understated...
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"'I never wanted to ever start a record label. Ever. But there is something about her voice I couldn't let go of. It's an actual voice. An actual beautiful voice. This one's a classic sounding voice. Not to mention her song writing, recording and guitar playing. Jessica Pratt's music feels...
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A reissue of Les Frères Mégri's Mahmoud, Hassan Et Younes, originally released in 1974. Les Frères Mégri was a Moroccan rock band formed in Oujda, Morocco in the late 1960s. The band consisted of four members: the three brothers, Hassan, Mahmoud and Younès, and their sister Jalila Mégri. Before the...
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Audiopile Review: Melbourne’s CS + Kreme quickly established one-to-watch status. The duo’s 2020 LP, ‘Snoopy’, had real ‘what is this even?’ appeal. It was the type of record that provokes a strong but confused reaction. Is this the kind of music I like? Is it ambient IDM? Old school post-rock?...
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Light in the Attic Records proudly presents Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996—the first comprehensive collection of Ukrainian music recorded prior to, and immediately following, the USSR’s collapse. From subtly dissenting Soviet-era singles to DIY recordings from Kyiv’s vibrant underground scene, the compilation chronicles the development of Ukraine’s...
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The only officially released live recordings of Doji Morita have been "Tokyo Cathedral Saint Mary Live" and "FM Tokyo Pioneer Sound Approach Live Recording", both recorded in 1978. This album contains live recordings from 1980, and this is the first time ever that recordings from this period have been released....
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Steel-string guitar and vocals by the great Giorgos Katsaros, a mythic figure of Greek rembetiko. Our obsession with underground Greek music continues with 10 ultra-rare recordings of heartbreak and vice from rembetiko legend Giorgos Katsaros. Katsaros, who by some accounts lived to be over 100 years old, carried the old...
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“Iguzki Hauskara by Pascal Gaigne, combines Basque Folk oral tradition, Spanish guitar and Contemporary Classical minimal compositions in equal parts. Beautifully haunting, wondrous and expansive, this record speaks to the spirit. A timeless document that befits situations and sceneries that existed long before this record was made. A pivotal moment...
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First-ever reissue of this elusive private pressing from 1970 by British singer/songwriter Keith Noble (a founding member of pre-Pink Floyd bands Sigma 6/The Abdabs and co-composer of Chad & Jeremy's hit "A Summer Song"). Mr. Compromise, originally released as a tiny demo pressing on the custom Eden label (home also...
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A Timeless Reflection on America and Ourselves: Simon & Garfunkel’s Searching Bookends Searches and Asks Big Questions, Includes “Mrs. Robinson” and “A Hazy Shade of Winter” Mastered on MoFi’s Renowned System and Limited to 4,000 Numbered Copies: Mobile Fidelity’s 180g SuperVinyl 33RPM LP Magnifies the Brilliance of the Original Recording...
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In the early '80s, an anthropologist left his recording equipment and tapes behind in a remote Wakuénai (Curripaco) village along the Upper Río Negro in Venezuela. When he returned almost a year later, he discovered that the village headman and his sons had used the equipment to record 12 hours...
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A companion to 2016's private country rock overview Cosmic American Music, this second volume goes way past Gram Parsons' “country-rock plastic dry-fuck” and explores the twangy falsettos and commercial curiosity that sent the Eagles soaring. Though rooted in the west coast folk rock of the late-’60s, these new kids in...
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Audiopile Review: How does our relationship with art change as we age? Does it act as an anchor to our past, or a rope guiding us into the future? Ontario based musician and painter Andre Ethier returns with his fifth long play on Toronto mainstay Telephone Explosion records, with instrumentation...
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DJ Yoshizawa dynamite.jp, an avid record digger and "wamono" style expert who has been active as a professional DJ, remixer, composer, and producer in Japan since the late 80s, published his record guidebook "Wamono A to Z" in 2015. The book introduced many classic and rare Japanese Groove records...
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For her third album Quiet Signs, Jessica Pratt offers up nine spare, beautiful & mysterious songs that feel like the culmination of her work to date. "Fare Thee Well" and "Poly Blue" retain glimmers of On Your Own Love Again's hazy day spells, but delicate arrangements for piano, flute, organ...
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The original cream of the singles crop from the Palace of Brothers, Songs and Music—covering the terrain from “Ohio River Boat Song” to “West Palm Beach,” and adding alternate takes of “Riding” and “Trudy Dies,” a live version of Hope’s “Untitled,” and this album’s title track, which doesn’t appear in...
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For Beginners: The Best of M. Ward is a collection for M. Ward fans of any vintage. Gathering together 14 tracks from across his Merge Records discography, including the newly recorded song “Cry,” For Beginners is both a primer and a mixtape of favorites sequenced in a way that gives...
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A collection of DIY home recordings, transferred from blank and repurposed brown and black wax cylinders, dating back to the early years of widespread phonographic technology, between the late 1800s and early 1900s. "Cylinder phonographs first entered the parlor in the late 1890s and stayed until displaced by newer technologies...
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K.W. Cahill records and plays acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, karimba, melodica and an AM/FM portable radio on March 2024 time. Mastered by James A. Toth in Toronto. Synchronicity, or plain trying to find connections, or maybe spirits in muted gathering, or fuck it, it’s ghosts getting stirred up and...
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Ladies of the Canyon can be viewed as Joni Mitchell's coming-out party. Having recently moved to Lookout Mountain in Los Angeles' Laurel Canyon area — her house is depicted in a watercolor painting she made for the record's cover — the Canadian icon turned to her immediate surroundings for inspiration...
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Deeply moving Casio jams from central Australia… Keanu Nelson is a young Aboriginal Australian artist from the remote but artistically rich community of Papunya, northwest of Alice Springs. He paints in the Western Desert movement style, and, on this album, sings poems from his notebook over minimalist DIY Casio beats...
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Aboriginal Australian blues, country, and gospel by the great Kankawa Nagarra, Queen of the Bandaral Ngadu Delta. These intimate recordings introduce the world outside Australia to Kankawa Nagarra, a beloved Walmatjarri Elder, teacher, human rights advocate, and environmental activist. Recorded live near her home in Western Australia, these twelve acoustic...
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Charles Bals, the curator behind the America Dream Reserve compilation, continues his journey into a wasteland of obscure recordings sourced from previously unknown tapes and vinyl of the 70s and 80s. This collection is made for an overcast, rainy night. Where the nocturnal ramblings of wandering silent types can be...
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Reconfiguring the laments from their debut album, Old Saw distill a wilted and hollow reflection from their original recordings. Lines freshly traced, erased, and reassembled from cassette and reel-to-reel machines, presented here like new writing on an old postcard...
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Audiopile Review: Musical worlds collide in strange and unexpected ways. In the 70s and 80s, there was a weird confluence of psychedelic folk, new age music, and the avant-garde. This was epitomized by new age icon Constance Demby. But you’ll find even more strange collisions if you trace the career...
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Debut standalone VHF LP by the Elkhorn duo of Drew Gardner and Jesse Sheppard, a tight set of six studio recordings in a variety of moods and featuring a lot of new sound textures. Elkhorn’s prolific stream of releases since 2016 has highlighted their mastery of sprawling long-form, acoustic-driven hypno-jams,...
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MAY is a double-LP collection of recordings made between 2020–2023 by Arianne Churchman & Benedict Drew (AC&BD), whose ongoing series channels, inhabits and transmogrifies the vast corpus of traditional English folksong celebrating the most fertile of months. An auditory tapestry, MAY employs at its base a flank of analog synthesizers,...
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Are Possible is a spark-throwing, undulating fusion of styles played (mainly) on banjo, upright bass and drums, made possible by the individual perspectives of Nathan Bowles, double-bassist Casey Toll (Jake Xerxes Fussell, Mt. Moriah) and drummer Rex McMurry (CAVE) work together in an easy-rolling manner, but one that contains an...
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A Colourful Storm presents the first vinyl edition of Yahho no Potori, a treasured recording by one of the most cherished contemporary Japanese folk outfits, Eddie Marcon. Comprised of the core duo of Eddie Corman and Jules Marcon, Eddie Marcon was formed in Himeji in 2001, following Corman's involvement in...
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DINTE's survey of folk music traditions in Northeastern Brazil, originally broadcast on NTS Radio in 2019, becomes the latest to be committed to cassette as part of their 10th anniversary series. It specifically focuses in on the spur-of-the-moment improvised "duelling" poetry of the repente, embolada & aboio styles that are...
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Grapefruit Records is proud to introduce Stenhjärta (translates to Stoneheart), a new duo consisting of Gustaf Dicksson & Magnus Jäverling. Both are active in the Swedish Underground music scene centered in Gothenburg. Gustaf is known for his shape-shifting prolific solo project, Blod, as well as his participation in the legendary...
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Sourced from the Original Master Tapes and Limited to 4,000 Numbered Copies: Mobile Fidelity’s 180s SuperVinyl 33RPM LP Plays with Staggering Detail, Clarity, and Definition 1/4" / 15 IPS analog master to DSD 256 to analog console to lathe Unifying, soothing, comforting: Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge over Troubled Water quickly...
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