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Clementine Lovell hit the ground running with début album Westbound in 2025 winning a number of awards on the way.  For the second album, Permutations, Clementine has taken a different route, collaborating with mutli-instrumentalist Gergely Nagy who plays guitar, bass, synth and percussion.  Clementine provides vocals, piano, accordion, and accordi...

The idea of music as force for peace, love and understanding isn’t new but The Gathering Quartet have explicitly put it into practice on their eponymous album. The four members represent Scotland (Luisa Brown), Ukraine (Olena Yeremenko), England (Louis Bingham) and Sweden (Mats Nystam). They don’t necessarily live in their native countries and so can genuinely call themselves...

Recorded at home over the course of three years on a four-track tape machine, following two EPs and a limited edition album, There’s No Song About A Stone is ostensibly the official debut by Thanet/London-based Italian-Australian singer-songwriter Corallina Beatrice Booker.

It has to be said that, with a kittenish little girl voice at times sounding at times l...

Having written the treatment for what would become Idle Women: The Musical, the story of women who worked on England’s canal boats during the second world war, Jones turned his attention to another female historical figure with his multi-media, one-man stage show about his mother Barbara Naisbitt. The songs and narration from that now form his second album, Snow ...

Pivoting around the core membership of Jonathan ‘JD’ Darley, Andy Yates and Robbie Sattin, augmented here by eight others on the likes of flute, violin, trumpet and double bass, Ends Of The Earth is their latest voyage on the shanty seas, hauling a cargo of thirteen numbers that span subjects from booze to beasts.

Inspired by the mythological Greek story of Ki...