From lap steels gaining sentience to a rethinking of the folk compilation, via wax cylinder kantele ghosts, the return of a dub-folk favourite and a confluence of ancient ceremonial song and left-field techno, Patrick Clarke's guide to the artists pushing the boundaries of traditional music returns
From lap steels gaining sentience to a rethinking of the folk compilation, via wax cylinder kantele ghosts, the return of a dub-folk favourite and a confluence of ancient ceremonial song and left-field techno, Patrick Clarke's guide to the artists pushing the boundaries of traditional music returns
In the return of his quarterly column exploring bold new takes on traditional music and sounds, Patrick Clarke speaks to the figures behind the new Black British Folk Collective about their story so far, and reviews eleven new records including harsh noise bodhran, an extraordinary Occitan freakout, Armenian duduk, Polish oberek and more
In the return of his quarterly column exploring bold new takes on traditional music and sounds, Patrick Clarke speaks to the figures behind the new Black British Folk Collective about their story so far, and reviews eleven new records including harsh noise bodhran, an extraordinary Occitan freakout, Armenian duduk, Polish oberek and more
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
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
Ahead of this year's Supersonic, we catch up with founder Lisa Meyer to discuss the intensifying challenges facing independent festivals like hers, the picks from a brilliant lineup they've put together in spite of them, and more
Ahead of this year's Supersonic, we catch up with founder Lisa Meyer to discuss the intensifying challenges facing independent festivals like hers, the picks from a brilliant lineup they've put together in spite of them, and more
On superb new album Offshore, Nadeem Din-Gabisi speaks through a football kit clad alias to explore issues of belonging and identity as a second-generation immigrant in the shadow of empire. He tells Patrick Clarke about imagining a better future, the need to antagonise the far right and much, much more
On superb new album Offshore, Nadeem Din-Gabisi speaks through a football kit clad alias to explore issues of belonging and identity as a second-generation immigrant in the shadow of empire. He tells Patrick Clarke about imagining a better future, the need to antagonise the far right and much, much more
In the run up to Squarepusher’s fifteenth studio release and performance at the 2020 CTM Festival in Berlin, Adam Quarshie caught up with him to discuss the tragic events that preceded the album, his early years in Chelmsford and his relationship to technology