Les Amazones d’Afrique assert women’s freedom of expression with new single ‘Kuma Fo’
The track features on their forthcoming Jacknife Lee-produced album Musow Danse.
Wed, 25 October 23
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.
The track features on their forthcoming Jacknife Lee-produced album Musow Danse.
Wed, 25 October 23
The album has been shortlisted for ‘Best Global Album’ and 'Best Engineered Album (non-classical...
Tue, 14 November 23
Sidestepper's Richard Blair remembers his late bandmate Teto.
Tue, 23 January 24
Jane Cornwell explores our new reissue series 'Africa Sessions at Real World'.
Wed, 25 May 22