New Releases Mon 08/02/10

More exciting new CDs coming your way this week…

Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell - The North Farm Sessions

Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell – The North Farm Sessions

Jonny Kearney is a young songwriter from Hexham way and Lucy Farrell is his Kentish accomplice. Their début CD mini-album The North Farm Sessions was recorded at the Northumberland home of Rachel Unthank & Adrian McNally, and produced by the latter for his RabbleRouser label. Unthank and McNally also provide vocal support on Song For A Sweetheart. The CD features Hares On The Mountain, a traditional song, To The Boy penned by Farrell and four originals composed by Kearney. The duo have started to draw rave notices and 2008 Mercury Prize nominees, The Unthanks, have been following Jonny’s songwriting for a while now, quite staggered by the quality and richness of his kitchen sink dramas and tales of the heart.  Rachel Unthank explains, “Jonny’s songwriting is heartbreaking and touching, humorous and unexpected, and never ceases to enthral”. Lucy (voice, fiddle, viola, saw) and Jonny (voice, guitar, piano) are perfect foils for each other; “the fragility of one and warmth of the other is a moving combination,” says Rachel.

“Delicate, thoughtful and intimate” **** THE GUARDIAN

“I came across these two playing support at an Unthanks show; from the moment Rachel (Unthank) introduced them it was evident to me and many others present that we were witnessing something special…Stars are born” ***** R2

 

Ruth Theodore Video!

Good singer / guitarist Ruth Theodore has released a video of her song Overflow.  It looks like this:

The video illustrates how they shot the cover picture for her album White Holes Of Mole Hills.  She also explains about some of the various shenanigans involved on her website.  Sensitive readers be warned though, it contains slightly naughty words.

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Box Set Giveaway!

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We here at Properganda tend to be tidy people but occasionally we stumble across a few boxes of cool music which we’d completely forgotten we even had.  This is one such occasion.

The pictured box sets were sitting in a box in the office being ignored and unloved.  So we’ve liberated them and are giving you the opportunity to give them some of your loving.

Here’s a list of what we’re offering you:

 

Exclusive Free Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté Download!

World Circuit are offering a free download an exclusive track by Ali and Toumani.  The track is called Kenouna and you can get it from the World Circuit website.

The album also features a track exclusive to the digital release, entitled Kana Kassy.

Here’s a video for Sabu Yerkoy:

Toumani Diabaté and his band will play his interpretations of the music of Ali Farka Touré in a series of special concerts starting in April 2010.

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Mostly Jazz Festival!

At the time of writing July might seem a bit far off for some of you.  Not so for the organisers of The Mostly Jazz Festival in Moseley, whose press release we received a couple of weeks ago and have since been trying to find the time to post.

If they were a horse, these words would come straight from their mouth:

This summer The Mostly Jazz Festival will be bringing two days of mostly jazz music to the beautiful surroundings of Moseley Park, Birmingham on the 3^rd and 4^th July 2010.

The Mostly Jazz Festival is the UK’s newest jazz festival and the only open air, one-site festival, exclusively dedicated to contemporary jazz, funk and soul.

 

Folk Award Winners Announced!

The 2010 Folk Awards happened yesterday.  Some of us from Proper went.  I didn’t though because no-one invited me, which means this whole event really isn’t as exciting as it was last year.

Anyway, these people won:

 

New Releases! Mon 01/02/10

A massive flock of new albums are released today, including:

BBC Folk Awards 2010 – Various Artists

Now an eagerly anticipated institution in it’s own right the double CD with a track from EVERY nominated artist in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Accompanied by a bonus live CD of the BBC Young Folk Awards. All in all the ‘one stop’ release showcasing the present and the future of British folk music.

We produce this album ourselves, for your listening enjoyment!

 

Graham Jones on TV!

Graham Jones – author of Last Shop Standing, a book about how no-one buys records any more – is appearing on the box this evening (Monday 01/02/10).  He will be on BBC One North East & Cumbria’s Inside Out show which starts at 7:30PM.

He will be chatting to various citizens of Newcastle, including Alan from Reflex Records.  The show will incorporate snippets like this (courtesy of an email Graham sent me):

 

Imagined Village Live Session!

An Imagined Village (of sorts)

Folk / world fusion band The Imagined Village are due to appear live in session on Radio 2 with Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie on Wednesday 3rd February.  The band will be playing 3 songs live, including their Slade cover Cum On Feel The Noize.  The show starts at 8:30PM.

It follows on directly from Mike Harding’s highlights of the Folk Awards, which starts at 7:00PM.

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Another Folk Awards Competition!

Well, it’s that time of year when the Folk Awards and all the ensuing shenanigans happen.  If you’ve come here you’re probably already familiar with the concept and the nominees and are probably wondering how you can win yourself a copy of the 2010 compilation.  Unfortunately for you, you are reading the words of an annoying person who likes going off on tangents and puts off getting to the point for longer than is in any way reasonable.