Folk
Folk music CDs from new unsigned indie bands, groups and artists.
Curst Sons - The Original And Genuine
The Original and Genuine is the 4th CD release for the Brighton UK based Curst Sons and features 13 brand new compositions.The Sons have been working at their personal take on American traditional music for more than a decade now -cheerfully blending styles from Blues to Bluegrass into the distinctive full flavoured Curst Sons sound. Raw and powerful and yet at times surprisingly tender - this is The Original and Genuine Curst Sons and there's no one else quite like them.
Chris Flegg - The Sound Of Life
The Sound Of Life represents Chris Flegg's songwriting output for 2007 and is his fifth album. The songs are all original with acoustic guitar and soprano sax backing, with contributions from Terry Ede on flute, Keith Kendrick on concertinas and Rod Brown on percussion. The songs are varied, intelligent and conversational with a relaxed feel that makes for an enjoyable listening experience.
A base of requisite adult-contemporary styling with grandiose percussion and guitar licks provide a neat platform for bold, operatic vocals.
R2 ROCK AND REEL MAGAZINE REVIEW 2010 states THE LOOSEHOUNDS ALBUM "THEN SUDDENLY" A distinctive fusion of Roots and Rock, a disarming and ingenious collection that stands as a testament to the sheer determination of The Loosehounds to tread their own path; its one that's certainly worth following.
Chris Flegg - Through The Window
This is Chris Flegg's 2006 album with 15 original songs and one new instrumental tune crammed into one CD to give over one hour of music. The setting of the songs is deliberately simple, acoustic guitar and voice, to give the feel of live performances, with soprano sax and tenor sax on some tracks used to good efect. These songs leave you feeling good and cover varied subjects in a way that gives you reason to think about some issues from a new perspective, with some smiles along the way.
Roger And The Rockets - Unknown Man
Rootsy happy Americana music with meaningful lyrics and a spice of Irish folk music added to the foot-stomping mix.
The Vending Machine Heart - Vending Machine Heart E.P.
The Vending Machine Heart is Jason Applin and Stuart Wills. They formed the Vending Machine Heart and started writing acoustic based songs after finding that they had a common admiration for many of the same songwriters - in particular Elliot Smith. The Vending Machine Heart’s music has been described as two parts Elliot Smith to one part Simon and Garfunkel.
Chunky Planet - Walking In My Shoes
A husband and wife collaboration, Chunky Planet's commentary style lyrics and alternative indie/folk sound is no recipe for nostalgic love songs. A 'tell it how you see it' approach, they switch from the sweet to the absurd always bringing a certain edge and rawness to their music.Their music has made comparisons from Tom Waits to The Eels. They play a variety of instruments including acoustic guitar, bodhrán, irish harp, tin whistle and percussion, using traditional instruments for...
The quirky lyrics of vocalist Laura Collins set to the tranquil compositions of trumpeter Ben Thomas. "New beginnings point the way."
Sugarfoot - With The Sun In Our Eyes
With the Sun in Our Eyes - SUGARFOOT's first collection of original songs written by Graeme Park who, on this debut album, also provides all of the instrumentation. The wonderful vocals of Carly & Katie McGuire and Sarah Talbot combine to deliver an emotional lyrical and musical story with influences drawn from the our collective love of contemporary Nashville.
Dave Rolfe - Without Further Ado
Folk guitar instrumentals from the Irish Harp to the Delta Blues. An eclectic collection of acoustic guitar instrumentals played with attack and vitality. Subtly backing himself on bass, percussion and bouzouki (how does he do that?) Dave has produced an album of great variety. As he explains "it wasn't meant to be an instrumental album, but the first track sounded so good that I did another and then another and so on. The music just poured out of me"
This is my 4th album, its more refined and a lot darker than my previous work. Its about change, the full moon, the night and the darkest hour before dawn.
Deborah Sprout - You'll Just Never Know
Eclectic mix of rhythmic music, intelligent lyrics, rich, sensual vocals - jazz, r&b, latin, country-blues, rock, with a celtic twist.
