Gentle folk music likened to Soundtrack music.

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A session version of a track from their latest album, Hello Cold Goodbye Sun, released on Johnny Rock. 
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Southern Tenant Folk Union - Crash ('live' on Gilded Palace Radio Show)

Blastfighter Theme - First rehearsal

One of my all time favourite and enigmatic band tunes...I dont cover many songs but had fun trying to get that signature sound and soul...

Caledonia Mission (The Band)

A chilled out riff with vocals from Alan Watts

Float Downstream

I AM A DALEK

Recorded with producer Richard Formby (Wild Beasts, Ghost Poet, Vessels Spaceman 3) at Suburban Home studio in Leeds, Dreamkillers is the debut track from new Scottish electronic outfit Future Get Down.

Future Get Down

Future Get Down - Dreamkillers

A mixtape of music featured in and inspiring the Netflix TV show "Stranger Things"

The Stranger Things Mixtape

The lead track on the single 'What Would You Give For A Leader With Soul?' that comes out ahead of the Join Forces album. The single also features the album title track 'Join Forces', 'To The War' (for a which a video is coming soon) and a bonus track 'How Many Lies' that's exclusive to the single.

Available on CD & Digital Download - JOROCK 024

What Would You Give For A Leader With Soul - Southern Tenant Folk Union

First song Ive recorded for 5 years. A swampy sweaty trek into the mysterious smoky woods...where lovers meet and no words are needed.

Lyrics:
I'll meet you down, deep in the smoky wood
no words between us to deceive
Getting out of town we can be of use
Maybe find a little truth amongst the bees.

We'll plant a seed deep in the smoky woods
And from a distance watch it grow
Its here I'll find the things I need to know
in her arms I never am unkind.

I can see you now, in the smoky wood
I can hear the leaves under your feet
When I see your eyes, I feel understood
Lying in the shadow of the trees.

The Smoky Woods

This is the soundcloud page for the acclaimed and award-winning Edinburgh based roots collective Southern Tenant Folk Union.
 
Their new album ‘Join Forces’ (JOROCK 023) will be released in September 2016 and is the band’s seventh full length album which sees the band return to the stripped back roots chords of their earlier records whilst continuing the political lyric themes from their well received 'Chuck Norris Project' from 2015. 
 
Artistically successful their albums have been praised in The Guardian, Independent, Sunday Times, Mojo, Uncut and Irish Times. Often heard on national radio shows across UK and Eire they have also performed live in session on BBC One TV, BBC Radio 2, Radio 4’s Loose Ends, BBC Ulster and RTE One national TV/radio. Their live show is exciting, engaging and in their hands ‘bluegrass can effortlessly be blended with other genres – folk, roots, americana – to make a potent, timeless sound’.
 
What the press are saying about the new album ‘Hello Cold Goodbye Sun‘
 
“The Scottish folk group Southern Tenant Folk Union presents its most potent offering since 2010′s excellent The New Farming Scene”
ANDY GILL, 4 STARS, THE INDEPENDENT
 
“Going to inordinate lengths to emulate Krautrock gods such as Can, the five-string banjo of Pat McGarvey is harnessed to a tea towel to recreate the arpeggios of the analogue sequencers pioneered by Tangerine Dream, and it sounds fantastically dreamy”
COLIN SOMERVILLE, 4 STARS, SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
 
“Southern Tenant Folk Union find themselves attracted to the horror realm on this atmospheric album – to horror film soundtracks and to the horrors of modern society…which makes a bright, Beatlesy response to shadowy authority figures, or to both in the case of Crash, which recreates the creepy synth arpeggios used in 1970s horror scores on a five-string banjo”
FIONA SHEPHERD, 4 STARS, THE SCOTSMAN
 
“Even though the year is a few days old I’d be surprised if this album, their fifth to date, doesn’t figure in our next annual Top 20 Albums list”
JOE LEPPER, 9/10, NEON FILLER
 
“Hello Cold Goodbye Sun, like all the recent work from this band, has its particular surface ripples but lasting depth beneath”
ALAN MORRISON, THE HERALD
 
“These 12 songs creep into your psyche. On the surface they may seem like pretty folk tunes, with the banjos and fiddles skipping merrily along, yet the grim and gloriously morbid tales give an otherwise well-worn musical genre a bit of a twist”
OLIVIA SCHAFF, DIGITAL FIX
 
“It may be folk but it is upbeat and danceable. All in all an album that could be called rootsy Calvin Harris or David Guetta with banjos. Brilliant”
RICK FULTON, THE DAILY RECORD

Best British Americana Act 2010

What Would You Give For A Leader With Soul - Southern Tenant Folk Union

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