folk

Indie or Acoustic

Musical Explorations

For Julia - May

Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of... out June 3rd, 2014

iTunes: http://bit.ly/1mObcZX
Physical: http://bit.ly/1nLbsy3

Summer Tour Dates:
6/6 Brooklyn, NY - Studio 360 WNYC Radio Love Fest @ BAM Harvey Theater
6/7 Brooklyn, NY - Rough Trade (early show)
6/7 Brooklyn, NY- Rough Trade (late show)
6/8 Washington, DC -Lincoln Theater
6/9 Washington, DC - Lincoln Theatre
6/10 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
6/12 Asheville, NC - Orange Peel
6/13 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
6/15 Tulsa, OK - Cain's Ballroom
6/16 Austin, TX - The Paramount
6/19 Boulder, CO - Chautauqua Community House
6/20 Boulder, CO - Chautauqua
6/21 Telluride, CO - Telluride Bluegrass Fest
7/2 Ann Arbor, MI - Power Center
7/4 Toronto, ON - Urban Roots Fest
7/6 Montreal, QC - Montreal Jazz Fest
7/8 New York, NY - Summerstage
7/10 Hanover, NH - Dartmouth
7/11 Bridgeport, CT - The Klein
7/12 Lowell, MA - Summer Music Series
7/18 Vancouver, BC - Vancouver Folk Fest
7/24-27 Calgary, AB - Calgary Folk Fest
7/26 Edmonton, AB - Interstellar Rodeo
8/1 Big Sur, CA - Henry Miller Library
8/2 Saratoga, CA - Mountain Winery
8/3 San Francisco, CA - Stern Grove Fest


Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of...

May II

Little Poney Vol.2

Yeah there is some electronic in here but it's not as heavy as my general EDM playlists.

enjoi

Sans Electronic

road

"Bumpy Road" appears on Deep Trip, Out Now.

CD/LP- http://bit.ly/1VAc8pm
iTunes- http://hyperurl.co/DeepTrip

Website:  http://www.ascetism.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/destructionunitofficial
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AsceticHouse


TOUR DATES: http://bit.ly/1QMFQkI

Destruction Unit - Bumpy Road

“Future Folklore” appears on Nature Noir, Out Now

iTunes- http://hyperurl.co/naturenoir
CD/LP- http://bit.ly/25DAg0H

Website:  http://www.crystalstilts.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crystalstiltsofficial/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crystal_stilts/

TOUR DATES: https://www.facebook.com/crystalstiltsofficial/app/123966167614127/

Crystal Stilts - Future Folklore

Nick Jackson's Debut Single 'Beauty's in the eye' to be released on Yucatan Records on 4th November 2013.

For more information contact:
Seb Fagg
Yucatan Records
seb@yucatanrecords.com


Beauty's in the Eye

Remix for Londons duo "Siloet".
Check their Facebook for the release of "Control". 
http://on.fb.me/1gq9NGT

Also Follow them on soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/siloetofficial

Click Here

Siloet - Control (Liam Back Remix)

Chi Glow is the first release from Fishing's debut album, out in June.

Chi Glow

Lead-off track from the new Generationals album, 'Actor-Caster'.

Ten-Twenty-Ten

New Single From Dustin Tebbutt

Available now on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/bonestrack
www.dustintebbutt.com

Lyrics:
 Couldn’t find you 
Honesty
All the blisters
You were holding alone

Couldn’t find you
Honesty
Were you water
Were you breaking

My frozen bones
My broken mind
It pulls this frozen 
Weight on us 

Now I’ve spoken
What it meant to be
In your doorway
Standing taller than those
Long shadows

Couldn’t find you 
Honesty
Were you water
Were you breaking
Was it tearing out
At your feint skin
Are you out there 
‘Cause I’m shaking

 Website: www.dustintebbutt.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/DustinTebbuttMusic Twitter: https://twitter.com/DustinTebbutt Instagram: http://instagram.com/dustintebbutt

Bones

"Let Go" is the third song from the new album 'Nabuma Rubberband'.

Pre-order the album on Itunes now and receive "Let Go", "Paris" and "Klapp Klapp" instantly - po.st/NabumaRubberband
Physical pre-order: po.st/littledd2c
Amazon:
http://smarturl.it/LD_AmzLPPreorder
http://smarturl.it/LD_AmzCDPreorder

Available in the USA on May 13th on Loma Vista Recordings
Available in the rest of the world on May 12th on Because Music

www.nabumarubberband.com
www.lomavistarecordings.com
www.because.tv


Nabuma Rubberband

Let Go

Our debut album "When It Was Now," is now available on iTunes- smarturl.it/atlas

Subscribe for more new music on YouTube- bit.ly/W8yTQS
iTunes - www.smarturl.it/atlas
Facebook- facebook.com/atlasgenius
Twitter- twitter.com/atlasgenius
Tour Dates- atlasgenius.com/tour

Lyrics to Trojans:
Take it off
Take it in
Take off all the thoughts of what we've been
Take a look
Hesitate
Take a picture you could never recreate
Write a song
make a note
for the lump that sits inside your throat
Change the locks, change the scene
Change it all but can't change what we've been

Your trojan's in my head

It's ok if it's gone
The thoughts that you had that it was the one
And oh what is left?
For all those times is that what you get?
Oh regardless
The walls get painted anyway
Oh you're guarding
The gates, but it all got away

Your trojan's in my head

Take it off
Take it in
Take off all the thoughts of what we've been
Take a look
Hesitate
Take a picture you could never recreate
Write a song
make a note
for the lump that sits inside your throat
Change the locks, change the scene
Change it all but can't change what we've been

About Atlas Genius-
The members of Adelaide, Australia’s Atlas Genius do things a little differently….They set about building a studio where they could write and record music for their newly formed band 3 years before they even played their first live show as Atlas Genius. For two years, they devoted their days to constructing their dream studio and spent their nights performing songs by The Police, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones at local pubs to pay the bills. “We really got down and dirty with dry walling and literally laying the floorboards, and at the same time we were taking a couple of days a week to focus on writing songs,” recalls Keith Jeffery, Atlas Genius’s vocalist/guitarist. "We had a lot of song ideas and it was important to us to have our own studio where we could experiment and hone in on our sound," adds brother and drummer, Michael Jeffery. The studio was designed and outfitted by the brothers with the help of their father (who comes from a music and engineering background). Once the studio was complete, the first song that Atlas Genius finished was a song called “Trojans,” which they wrote, recorded and produced in collaboration with their friend, keyboardist Darren Sell. After many weeks tweaking the song, Michael insisted that the song was ready to be heard outside of the studio walls. Within an hour, “Trojans” was on the Triple J Unearthed Website, SoundCloud, and for sale via TuneCore on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify worldwide.

“We had begun to think that music was a pipedream and we had all gone back to university to pursue more realistic careers,” says Keith. “We’d had such a long slog of playing late nights and working all day, and it felt like we didn’t really have anything to show for it.” But then, in the midst of cramming for their Fall 2011 semester final exams, Neon Gold discovered “Trojans” on the Triple J Unearthed Website and wrote a post praising “Trojans” as a song sure to “invade your head, all dressed up in a clever disguise of earnest vocals riding a hooky riff.” Checking the band’s email account for the first time in over a month, the band found that dozens of record labels, publishers, lawyers, booking agents and management companies from all over the world had contacted them.

“We were trying to focus on school, but it was just impossible,” recalls Keith. “So we said, ‘There’s something going on here. Let’s get back to the music.’” The band added manager, Jonny Kaps from +1, to their extended family to navigate all of the interest as the band focused on writing and recording more songs.

Quickly named an iTunes Single of the Week in Australia and New Zealand, “Trojans” reached #4 on Hype Machine by the end of May. In August, SiriusXM Satellite Radio’s Alt-Nation discovered the song on a blog and decided to give it some spins. There was an immediate reaction from listeners, and in September, “Trojans” was placed into heavy rotation, where it maintained a top-five position on the listener-generated Alt-18 countdown and peaked at number one for 4 consecutive weeks in January 2012. “Trojans” began selling over a thousand tracks per week on U.S. iTunes and soon climbed to 45,000 sales - all with zero promotional efforts from the still-unsigned Atlas Genius.

“Knowing we had this audience that was waiting on new songs, we had a much greater sense of purpose than we had before,” says Keith. “It was really exciting to know that there were people who wanted to hear more of our music.” Although labels were clamoring for the band to come to the U.S. and play a series of showcase gigs, Atlas Genius turned down those offers in favor of staying in Adelaide to keep writing and recording new songs. In February 2012, after months of communicating with numerous labels via Skype, the band chose to travel to the US in order to make their label decision.

“We’d never been to America before,” says Keith. “We flew in at night and saw this sea of lights, and it really became apparent to us how massive the U.S. is. It was pretty intimidating - like ‘How do we fit into all this?’” In April 2012, the band returned to the states having made their decision to sign with Warner Bros. Records. “We felt a connection with them,” notes Keith. “Everyone there feels very creative and dedicated to the music.”

The band’s first release from their new label home, the EP Through The Glass (produced, engineered and mixed by the band), came out in June of 2012. With Through The Glass completed, Atlas Genius then holed up in its studio and worked on writing and recording its first full-length album, while at the same time rehearsing for their first ever tour. The tour started in August 2012 and led to three more tours back to back taking them thru to the end of the year. Thus, their full-length debut was finished up between tour dates and got completed just before Christmas 2012. When It Was Now is set for a US release on February 19th, 2013, with an international release to follow soon after.

The debut captures Atlas Genius’s singular combination of sophisticated musicality and warm, wistful spirit. Infused with a classic sensibility, each of the songs would fit seamlessly if somehow slipped into a long-treasured mixtape. On the shimmering “Symptoms,” for instance, taut keyboard riffs mesh with urgent acoustic strumming before the band bursts into a gently frenetic, guitar-drenched chorus. Meanwhile, “Back Seat” blends its pulsing bass throb with a sweetly infectious beat and tender vocals that alternately soar and sigh. And on “Trojans,” Atlas Genius begins with a restrained guitar melody and vocal (“Take it off, take it in/Take off all the thoughts of what we’ve been”) before giving way to the handclap-accented, harmony-soaked refrain and lush yet kinetic bridge.

“It’s still surreal,” says Keith of all that’s happened over the past 18 months. “I think when we were very young, we had hopes that something like this might happen one day,” he continues. (Thanks largely to encouragement from their Beatles fanatic parents, who encouraged the brothers to begin playing music by age 14.) “But then you grow up a bit and it seems less and less likely. So when we put ‘Trojans’ out, we figured it would be a success if maybe a hundred people heard it. We don’t want to force our music onto anyone. Our goal is to write songs that we love and we hope they connect with other people too.”

Trojans

Buy on iTunes

From the band's album 'CLPPNG', release date June 10 2014 on Sub Pop Records
Order here: http://u.subpop.com/1eoUjQL

get to know clipping 
https://www.subpop.com/artists/clipping
https://www.clppng.com/
https://twitter.com/clppng
https://www.facebook.com/clppng
 

CLPPNG

Body & Blood

clipping. - Body and Blood

Bob Moses, First To Cry
Domino Records, 2014

A1: I Ain't Gonna Be The First To Cry
A2: Grace

Buy "I Ain't Gonna Be The First To Cry" on iTunes: http://po.st/FTCiTunes
Pre-order on 12" Vinyl: http://po.st/FirstToCryDM

www.facebook.com/bobmosesmusic
www.twitter.com/bobmosesmusic
www.youtube.com/bobmosesmusic

First To Cry

I Ain't Gonna Be The First To Cry

My Sister's Tiny Hands

So Much Wine, Merry Christmas

Giant of Illinois

Andrew Bird - Tin Foiled 
Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of...
Out June 3rd, 2014
Pre-order: http://bit.ly/1jXLnt3

Summer Tour Dates:
6/6 Brooklyn, NY - Studio 360 WNYC Radio Love Fest @ BAM Harvey Theater
6/7 Brooklyn, NY - Rough Trade (early show) 
6/7 Brooklyn, NY- Rough Trade (late show)
6/8 Washington, DC -Lincoln Theater 
6/9 Washington, DC - Lincoln Theatre
6/10 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle 
6/12 Asheville, NC - Orange Peel
6/13 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
6/15 Tulsa, OK	- Cain's Ballroom
6/16 Austin, TX - The Paramount
6/19 Boulder, CO - Chautauqua Community House
6/20 Boulder, CO - Chautauqua
6/21 Telluride, CO - Telluride Bluegrass Fest
7/2 Ann Arbor, MI - Power Center
7/4 Toronto, ON - Urban Roots Fest
7/6 Montreal, QC - Montreal Jazz Fest
7/8 New York, NY - Summerstage
7/10	Hanover, NH - Dartmouth
7/11	Bridgeport, CT - The Klein
7/12	Lowell, MA - Summer Music Series
7/18	Vancouver, BC	- Vancouver Folk Fest
7/24-27	Calgary, AB - Calgary Folk Fest 
7/26 Edmonton, AB	- Interstellar Rodeo
8/1	Big Sur, CA - Henry Miller Library 
8/2	Saratoga, CA - Mountain Winery
8/3 San Francisco, CA - Stern Grove Fest

Tin Foiled

Cathedral in the Dell

iTunes: http://smarturl.it/MartynTABWit
Ninja Shop: http://smarturl.it/MartynTABW
Amazon: http://smarturl.it/MartynTABWaz
Stream: http://smarturl.it/MartynTABWstream

Taken from the Martyn album 'The Air Between Words' released June 16 2014 on Ninja Tune

Follow Martyn:

https://www.facebook.com/3024world
https://twitter.com/MARTYN3024
https://soundcloud.com/3024world

http://ninjatune.net

The Air Between Words

iTunes

Martyn & copeland - 'Love Of Pleasure'

Reservoir taken from the new album, Love Letters.
Out now; po.st/LoveLetters

Catch Metronomy live at Field Day - 
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/artist/field-day-london-tickets/911919?camefrom=redirect_fieldday

Reservoir [Jacques Le Cont Remix]

Out on October 11th on Fat Possum as part of a double-disc deluxe edition of 'Yuck'

Yuck

Cousin Corona

released on my label steadfast with a remix by SIGHA

echologist - slow burn

Released in the US on September 28, 2012
International releases coming soon!

Venice

El Guincho - Bombay

Zulu Winter - Words That I Wield

This track is from the album Influences Encore and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ColinFarish2

Willow, Weep For Me

I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance

Just a Closer Walk With Thee

Yeah Yeah Yeah

Workin' Woman Blues

Yo La Tengo - Before We Run

From The forthcoming album "All Hail Bright Futures", available everywhere on March 19th, 2013 via Sargent House

ASIWYFA 
http://asiwyfa.bandcamp.com 
http://asiwyfash.tumblr.com 
https://www.facebook.com/andsoiwatchyoufromafar
https://twitter.com/ASIWYFA_Band
http://sargenthouse.com/AndSoIWatchYouFromAfar

ASIWYFA SHOW DATES
http://artistdata.com/asiwyfa/shows

And So I Watch You From Afar - Like a Mouse

God Loves You When You’re Dancing EP on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/glywyd  

God Loves You When You're Dancing

Riptide

Download "You Can't Be Told" here! http://bit.ly/13GPkIv
7" Heavyweight Vinyl available March 4th!


You Can't Be Told

Faustus - Og's Eye Man

Pre-order More Than Just A Dream http:smarturl.it/fitzdream 
Available Everywhere May 7th 



More Than Just a Dream

The Walker

The Day (Yeasayer Remix)

Lucy Ward - Single Flame
Out 19th August 2013 (Navigator Records)
Produced by Stu Hanna.  

NAVIGATOR083
www.navigatorrecords.co.cuk

Lucy Ward - Marching Through The Green Grass


Pete Flood of Bellowhead offers up an ingenious reworking of the title track from Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker's forthcoming 'Fire & Fortune' album.

'Fire & Fortune' is released on Navigator Records on 22nd July 2013.

In a town full of songs and singers, Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker give you the real thing. Both classically trained, their musical proficiency is beyond doubt. But this isn't about technical accomplishment. This is about a song, first and foremost. Whether interpreting words centuries old, or singing her own authentic lyrics, Josienne's jewel-like voice finds the nuance and melancholy in the simplest phrase and effortlessly sends it straight to your heart.
Ben's musical tact and mastery of the guitar provide the perfect setting and allow the song centre-stage.Josienne was born in Sussex and Ben, in Evesham. It was after studying in London, and utterly by chance, that they met in July 2009. They have been working together ever since. Critical acclaim soon followed, along with the Isambard Folk Award and the FATEA award for Female vocalist of the year. Their work together combines an exquisite command of their instruments with lyrics steeped in the tradition of English songwriting, and in ageless stories of love and loss.
Two joint releases later, they've played as a duo alongside many of the living legends including Martin Simpson and Steve Tilston, and have just completed tour dates in Germany, the Netherlands and UK with more planned for 2013.
Navigator Records, home of Bellowhead, Bella Hardy, Heidi Talbot and many other gifted musicians, will be releasing their new album ‘Fire and Fortune’ on 22 July 2013.
Though influenced by greats such as Sandy Denny, Richard and Linda Thompson, Nick Drake, Bert Jansch and June Tabor, ‘Fire and Fortune’ marks two musicians who have resolutely found their own path through traditional English music.
Their new album, ‘Fire and Fortune’ contains twelve tracks, some carefully selected traditional songs re-imagined; others equally carefully picked original compositions. This is timeless stuff, and its purity will stay with you long after the last note fades.
www.josienneclarke.co.uk

Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker - Fire & Fortune (Pete Flood remix)

From 'Hidden Seam' out now on Navigator Records.
Buy here : http://www.propermusic.com/product-details/Lisa-Knapp-Hidden-Seam-153972

www.navigatorrecords.co.uk

***** - The Observer
**** - The Guardian
"a masterpiece" - folkradio.co.uk
"Long may she sail" **** - Songlines
"one very fine release indeed..." - Fiona Talkington, Late Junction, BBC Radio 3

‘It’s easy to see why this singer is the toast of the folk scene…her vocals, like those of Anne Briggs, come across as strange and stirring as a spring day.’ - The Observer

‘A major discovery’ - Mojo

Lisa Knapp first emerged in 2007 with a remarkable debut album, ‘Wild And Undaunted’ and quickly established herself as a highly distinctive, creative artist, merging a radiant style of traditional folk and self-penned song with vocal, fiddle, hammer dulcimer, strings, banjo and contemporary production. ‘Wild And Undaunted’ won Lisa critical acclaim including BBC Radio 2 Folk Award nominations and Mojo Folk Album of the Year.
 
It’s been a long wait but evidently worth it – the South Londoner’s much anticipated 2nd full length album, Hidden Seam, is finally due for release by Navigator Records on 16th September 2013.
 
Far from idle, Lisa has spent the years between albums exploring ideas connected to the elements and our fragile, volatile environment.  Though greatly inspired by husband/musical partner Gerry Diver’s own creative journey with his 2011 ‘Speech Project’ album (music based on the speech patterns of Irish traditional singers), Lisa was also motivated by her own love of language – partly through a meeting with Seamus Heaney but also an interest in the old English text of Beowulf. 

Shipping Song, the album’s opening track, arises from Lisa’s fascination with the Met Office’s somnambulant, poetic late night shipping forecast ; its strange and far-away sounding place names, Utsire, Viking, Fastnet and Lundy. A recording of American Marine sound testing from the 1950s was seamlessly sewn into the track, alongside the noises of sea creatures and spinning motors. Black Horse is a song by the great, late English singer/songwriter, Lal Waterson, which Lisa was originally invited to perform on tour with Scottish singer and guitarist James Yorkston. Not only does James guest on this recording but Lisa was also thrilled to be joined by Lal’s daughter, Marry Waterson.  Lisa plucked up courage to invite Martin Carthy, one of her musical heroes, to accompany her on Two Ravens, a touching song about Alzheimers disease.   Seagiver is a visceral song of death and the elements. The penultimate track on Hidden Seam, Hunt the Hare Pt 1, features acclaimed Scottish folk musician, Alasdair Roberts and was originally based on the well-known Irish song Rocky Road to Dublin. It evolved into a song (and EP release) about the month of May. On Hushabye, a lullaby style song which she regularly sang to her daughter, Lisa is accompanied by celebrated singer/songwriter, Kathryn Williams.
 
Hidden Seam is a substantial sonic tapestry. It will swiftly re-establish Lisa Knapp as not only one of the most compelling voices of her generation in British folk music but one of the most innovative.  Her roots may be embedded in the great folk revival of the 50’s and 60’s but with this new album, she is setting sail for unchartered horizons.   


