Tag World Music
This was a welcome arrival and I have a new ‘chill out’ album to go to here and make a change from all the noisy metal stuff. It’s a bit ironic really that it comes from a Polish musician who… Continue Reading →
This sounded fascinating on paper and appeared to be an album that would transport me away from the living room to a different place and time entirely. That is just what was needed over an extended bank holiday when the… Continue Reading →
For her second album Hildring (Engl. mirage) Lindy-Fay Hella of Wardruna has joined forces with fellow Norwegians Dei Farne (Roy Ole Førland and Ingolf Hella Torgersen). Following her solo debut Seafarer (2019) which regarding themes and soundscapes was close to… Continue Reading →
It is time to escape to the tranquil and pastoral Austrian Tyrol. Watch that cow-pat it’s freshly laid and still steaming, ouch, damn bitey bugs, achoo, stupid hay-fever. Ah it’s OK, still in the comfort of the living room, but… Continue Reading →
Russian label Haarbn Production have an interesting and niche roster of releases. Things pop up from them very occasionally and to date they have only 38 albums to their name. What I have noticed is that despite often containing a… Continue Reading →
Back with their seventh album Hungarian folk duo Ágnes Tóth and Mihály Szabó are here to provide something a bit more mellow in these savage times and dip back into the past with legends and fairy-tales of yore. Not that… Continue Reading →
Thy Catafalque’s subliminal cuts – all weighed down with a suitably metal edge, of course – seem to have been propelling from relative cult status to more something more widely revered over recent albums. From sweet harmonies that wouldn’t go… Continue Reading →
384,400 KM to be precise and yes that is far away. Getting that out the way, here we have some gorgeous folk music from Arkhangelsk Russia to contemplate but it is one where we are told East meets West so… Continue Reading →
After a ten year plus slumber the return of Autumn Tears with EP ‘The Origin Of Sleep’ was a more than welcome one. The neo-classical US based collective had really made their mark on the fringes of our musical world… Continue Reading →
Without going too far into the whys and wherefores apparently French composer/producer Christophe Voisin-Boisvinet found three singers whose voices had ‘atypical timbres’. Nope, not sure myself and even less having listened to this. I do know he found three very… Continue Reading →
The past two albums gave me nightmares and hallucinations in more than just title and now I am promised decadence and luminosity. Will a light suddenly go on in my head and understanding be reached as far as Haiku Funeral… Continue Reading →
A new Dead Can Dance album is a pretty major event, the cult act having just released 10 studio albums over a career stretching back to 1981. When it is accompanied with some rare live dates it is even more… Continue Reading →