Last year, Laura Cannell released her debut album Quick Sparrows Over The Black Earth, which found the fiddle and recorder player drawing on medieval music for her improvisational compositions. She tells Danny Riley about recording in churches and finding kindred spirits in fellow Early Music fans Bass Clef and Charles Hayward in their Oscilanz project
Last year, Laura Cannell released her debut album Quick Sparrows Over The Black Earth, which found the fiddle and recorder player drawing on medieval music for her improvisational compositions. She tells Danny Riley about recording in churches and finding kindred spirits in fellow Early Music fans Bass Clef and Charles Hayward in their Oscilanz project
Seamus Fogarty, who releases his debut album through Fence Records later this month, crafts beguiling songs out of a whole arsenal of traditional and not-so traditional instruments. He speaks to Nicola Meighan about finding inspiration in a lost t-shirt
Russell Cuzner takes a strictly offline survey of our more un-genre-fied neighbourhoods & finds unusual proportions of rhythmic matter, including the latest displacements from Marja Ahti, Alexandra Spence, UnicaZürn, Julio “Chocolate” Algendones, Qasim Naqvi, Jim Haynes and Phew / Oren Ambarchi / Jim O’Rourke