BUSY BUSY

Megan Henwood has once again teamed up with heavily bearded Scotsman Findlay Napier for a second STORY SONG SCIENTISTS EP and a UK tour through November. Watch out for the first track Ode To The Man With The Golden Arm…. 15th October.

FIGHTING TALK!
CATALYSTS  continue to grow apace with each release. single. Sylvia has been played 400 times on stations around the UK. Many thanks for the support, particularly Kerrang FM and Amazing Radio. You Got No Soul , released in August surpassed Sylvia for airplay and all round coverage. Stay tuned for Sparks and the debut EP on November 5th.

THE ROADSIDE BANDITS PROJECT continues to pick up press from around the world, including this great feature in Blues In Britain. Listen to the cracking new track Wastlelands.

ALEXANDER WOLFE has been a busy chap. He’s just released a beautifully touching tribute to a fan who tragically took her own life. “I Hope You Get To Start Again, Olivia” precedes an ambitious project dealing with mental health. He has become an ambassador for mental health charity SANE.
Meanwhile he has been working on the soundtrack to AMAZON ORIGINAL TV SERIES “FLACK”. The first EP, by TYGERMYLK, written and produced by Alex, was released in April. Alex released his own EP to coincide with the release of FLACK” SERIES 2 on June 11th. Listen HERE

BAK//RORDAM released their much anticipated debut collaboration “The Odsherred Session” in March.
Listen here

Megan Henwood  returned in 2020 with a beautiful new child and the first fruits of her forthcoming new EP….. Doors was released in June (see below) and the new record is equally fabulous…. written in the latter stages of labour Megan says this: “it’s an ode to my past life as I am beckoning in a new one – like stepping through a portal”. Check out HELLO/GOODBYE

Say hello to BAK//RORDAM
Frans Bak has teamed up with renowned Danish guitarist Jan Rørdam to record a wonderful EP of piano and guitar compositions inspired by places of particular resonance to them. The first track released is written about and inspired by Frans’ lakeside studio in the village of  Odsherred

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Artist, historian, folklorist, curator, and all round accessible auteur Cunning Folk released his latest opus in 2020preceded by various singles.   The first coincided with Summer Solstice – the excellent Always The Sun.

The album “A Casual Invocation” also features his lament for the harvest festival and this timely nod to the (almost certainly wicked) Witch of Wapping (read all about it here).

2021 sees our George staying busy with his folklore talks and he now has a monthly podcast with a single released to coincide with each. You Think You’re A Giant was released in September. Vampire appears, appropriately, ahead of Halloween on October 22.

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Megan Henwood has written her own lockdown lament … with surprisingly positive vibes and heard all over BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music…  Mark Radcliffe likes it. And we like him… listen

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Listen to Fran Bak’s incredible new record  PIANO.

Hot on the heels of their debut single Sombre Circus (Feat. Nell Bryden), new band The Roadside Bandits Project released a new single in June featuring John Sterry of the Gang of Four: My Own Lies. The album is getting great reviews and is out now.

Now then. You may be aware of our exceptional examples of modern classical music; check out “Interview With The Angel” or “Ghostland Revisited” by GHOSTLAND, and “Merlin’s Hat” or “Such Sweet Thunder” by CAROLINE DALE. You’ll be glad you did.

Meanwhile, we were absolutely thrilled to add a special name to this list. FRANS BAK.
Frans is a highly accomplished and award-winning composer and well known throughout the world for composing scores for such shows as ‘THE KILLING’ (Danish and US versions), Dr. FOSTER (for the BBC), Lilyhammer, Disparue and many more international TV series.