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Picturing Nick Drake back on tour

4732 days ago
Guardian MusicA lost recording by the late singer has been turned into a UK-wide photography project. Laura Barton takes partOne summer evening in the late 1970s, Michael Burdett was scavenging through a skip behind Island Records HQ in London. He was a teenager, ... more info

Radar 10/2011: Ben Howard / Tribes / Lights / Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs / Friends / Real State

4746 days ago
From Mato, From LondonBen Howard Devon (UK) Acústica folk, preciosas acrobacias de guitarra y una voz a la que se le oye el terciopelo y la dulzura. Como escuchar a Nick Drake por primera vez. Te gustará si te gustan Todo lo que hay en el medio entre Mumford and Sons y... more info

Brad Meldhau: The Art of the Trio Recordings 1996-2001 – review

4772 days ago
Guardian Music(Nonesuch)When a classically trained young piano improviser called Brad Mehldau emerged in the mid-1990s, he quickly established a patient, subtle and richly contrapuntal approach that took jazz piano-trio improvisation to a new level. Warner Brother... more info

Mumford and Sons Talk New Album

4773 days ago
411 ManiaIt's like Nick Drake meets Black Sabbath... more info

Mumford & Sons plan 'doom folk' album

4773 days ago
Guardian MusicLondon band's next record will feature a much heavier sound, like 'Black Sabbath meets Nick Drake'Mumford & Sons' second album will be a "doom folk" record, inspired by the heavy sounds of Black Sabbath as well as, apparently, Adele. There is still n... more info

New album from Gothenburg’s Klifton Filente – “Breaking the Clouds”

4795 days ago
SwedespleaseI believe I’m the worldwide expert on Klifton Filente (posts here and here). With that said I really know very little about him. The band is really just Jonas Lundvall from Gothenburg. In the past I have compared his sound to that of Paul Simon or ... more info

Bill Ryder-Jones: If … – review

4800 days ago
Guardian Music(Domino)If eyebrows were raised when guitarist Bill Ryder-Jones left the Coral in 2008, his debut album should send them into the stratosphere. A score inspired by Italo Calvino's novel If on a Winter's Night a Traveller is a long way from the Liverp... more info

Susanna Wallumrød/Giovanna Pessi: If Grief Could Wait – review

4807 days ago
Guardian Music(ECM)Not quite a jazz album, this exquisite performance for voice, harp and period fiddles joins Susanna Wallumrød's light-touch singing and the evocative, interweaving lines and stately enunciation of Henry Purcell's 17th-century church and theatr... more info

Ben Howard – review

4815 days ago
Guardian MusicKing Tut's, GlasgowThe world has lost so many pioneering acoustic guitar virtuosos lately – Davey Graham, John Martyn, Bert Jansch – that seeing a young man channelling their spirit and technique before an enraptured crowd can't help but prove he... more info

Mike Gibbs/Norma Winstone: Here's a Song for You – review

4821 days ago
Guardian Music(Fuzzy Moon) The great British jazz singer Norma Winstone has just passed her 70th. Having spent much of her career working with composers who've used her range and precision as a texture, she has blossomed in recent years, with the superb Grammy-nom... more info

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