In his latest missive from the French fringes, David McKenna digs into the archives of the Sonic Protest festival and a recent book on the post-68 French underground, and reviews new noise, folk, rap and indie pop releases
Patrick Clarke's guide to the best in strange, left-field and underground traditional music returns, with reviews of 10 essential new releases that take in everything from Irish fairy forts to Japanese rivers, strange parallel worlds and stark protest songs