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Portico Quartet's double LP Live/Remix will be the second featured album in the monthly series.
Fri, 11 October 19
Forging links between folk worlds old, new and other, Rachel and her set have blown a bracing northeasterly gale through traditional English song, casting it in an endlessly inventive and playful new mould.
Transcendent and grounded music folds around unsentimental old, new and imaginatively borrowed stories of booze, brawls, abuse, loss, fear, infantile death, depravity, and sorrow.
Dancing down the leftfield and singing in their own lilting Geordie accents, Rachel Unthank & The Winterset are the “inheritors, curators and gleeful distorters” (Ian MacMillan) of Tyneside’s traditions. Discreetly provocative arrangements draw on elements of blues, jazz, music hall, burlesque cabaret, classical, and leftfield contemporary music, making their take on folk music peerless, fearless and wholeheartedly brave.
Fans as disparate as Robert Wyatt, Kate Rusby, Paul Morley, Nic Jones, Phil Jupitus and Joan As Policewoman have joined the chorus of adulation from the press.
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset
With their lilting Geordie accents, Rachel Unthank & The Winterset are the inheritors, curators - and gleeful distorters - of northern England's Tyneside musical tradition. Elements of blues, jazz, burlesque cabaret, classical and leftfield contemporary music make their take on folk music peerless, fearless and wholeheartedly brave.
Portico Quartet's double LP Live/Remix will be the second featured album in the monthly series.
Fri, 11 October 19
The RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards will take place in Vicar St., Dublin on 24 October 2019.
Thu, 19 September 19
9Bach's Anian is Vinyl of the Month for November as part of the Real World Vinyl Club.
Thu, 14 November 19
Amazones Power, their second album, features voices from Africa and the diaspora
Tue, 08 October 19