Rizan Said – Ma Waraa Al-Shaabi
Rizan Said’s “Ma Waraa Al-Shaabi” is out on Kou Records: seven pieces recorded at Sundlaugin in Iceland, produced by Randall Dunn and co-produced by Mark Gergis.
Folk i món
Folk i músiques del món —folk y músicas del mundo—: tradicions acústiques d’aquí i de fora que dialoguen amb el rock i el jazz que cobrim habitualment a Tótum Revolútum Press. Novetats discogràfiques, concerts i entrevistes d’artistes que treballen des de l’arrel.
Wardruna release “Helvegen II”, a new version of the song they recorded in 2012
The Norwegian group re-records the song from “Runaljod – Yggdrasil”, with a film shot in Iceland. The vinyl, available to pre-order until 30 November, is out in February.
Ensemble Tikoro – Tortoise
Ensemble Tikoro, a five-voice choir from West Java, release “Tortoise” on cassette and digital, with parts two and three of the work.
Eivør releases “Tungl”, ten songs and her first album for Nuclear Blast, and premieres the “Og Mánin Græt” video
The album came out yesterday with ten tracks, and the “Og Mánin Græt” video landed the same day. The 2027 European tour takes in fifteen countries and has no Spanish date.
Eivør – Tungl
Ten tracks in Faroese and English for Eivør’s first album on Nuclear Blast: the newest gesture on it, the throat singing with her sister Elinborg, is on the shortest track of the record.
Lankum’s Radie Peat shares “Hares on the Mountain” from her first solo album, out on 13 November
“No Human Tongue Can Tell” is nine traditional songs through Rough Trade. The idea of playing everything herself came from a documentary about “Tubular Bells”.
Richard Thompson releases “Hippies, Thugs and Heroes” on 16 October, his twentieth studio album
Twelve songs cut at Hobosound in Weehawken with James Frazee, again for New West as with “Ship To Shore” (2024). There is a horn section, arranged by him.
Big Thief open a free archive with ten full concerts and will add one a month
Ten complete shows recorded between 2019 and 2026 and mixed at 4AD’s studio, all of it free. A new one goes up on the second Tuesday of every month.
Heilung release “Læknisgaldr” and date “Sagas”, the music they recorded for “Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II”
Out on 11 December through Season of Mist, it gathers what the trio recorded with Ninja Theory for the game. This month they go into LAVA Studios for the fourth album.
Ensemble neoN & Benedicte Maurseth – Always and Never the Same
Benedicte Maurseth’s Hardanger fiddle inside a contemporary music ensemble: eight pieces and forty-one minutes, out of a work premiered at Oslo’s Ultima festival in 2023.
Lau Noah and Michael League release “Come the Night”, six songs recorded in three days
The EP came out yesterday on GroundUP, Michael League’s label. It holds six songs moving between English and Spanish, with guitar, voice and little else.
Tinariwen – Hoggar
The Tuareg band’s tenth album, with José González and Sudanese singer Solafa Elyas guesting. Ibrahim Ag Alhabib and Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni harmonise together for the first time in thirty years.
Billy Bragg and Wilco expand “Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions” with sixteen unreleased recordings
Craft Recordings puts it out on 11 December as a seven-LP or four-CD box. The first taste is an alternate version of “Against Th’ Law”, from the second volume.
Ray Lema & Ensemble Partage – Passion Congo
Ray Lema puts his piano in front of an Italian string quartet, a soprano saxophone and two percussionists: nine pieces that move from minimalism to ragtime without losing the pulse.
Alekos Vretos – Mediterranean Echoes
Greek oud player Alekos Vretos builds a drummerless chamber quartet: oud, clarinet, piano and bass crossing Arabic modes, Greek folk music and improvisation.
Dom Flemons records an album on twenty-two Smithsonian instruments, among them the guitars of Elizabeth Cotten and Mississippi John Hurt
“Making American Music: The Smithsonian Sessions” is out on 22 January and is the first roots record made only with pieces from the museum. Twenty-one songs.
Midori Jaeger – (Re)planted
Six songs and sixteen minutes of cello and voice, the second half of a diptych that started in March. Real minimalism: every instrument with its own space around it.
The two Wilco men behind The Autumn Defense bring “Here And Nowhere” to Reus on 18 October and Barcelona on the 20th
John Stirratt and Pat Sansone play seven Spanish dates, two of them in Catalonia: the Festival Accents in Reus and the Antiga Fàbrica Estrella Damm with Delicatessen.
Judit Neddermann and Momi Maiga release “Mou-te”, with a video you navigate with your eyes
The song is driven by the Catalan ALS foundation Miquel Valls and the video moves with your gaze, the one movement many patients keep in the late stages.
Mostly Autumn
Mostly Autumn, a York band formed in 1995 around Bryan Josh, combine progressive rock and Celtic folk; fifteen studio albums released, the latest in 2025.
Solstice
Solstice, a Milton Keynes band formed in 1980 around guitarist Andy Glass, blend progressive rock and folk from Silent Dance (1984) onwards; they continue to release new albums.
Spirogyra
Spirogyra, a progressive folk band formed in Bolton in 1967 and re-formed in 1969 at the University of Canterbury, released St Radigunds (1971) with Barbara Gaskin on vocals; they reunited between 2004 and 2018.
Comus
Comus, an English band formed in 1969 in Bromley, Kent, fused acoustic folk and dark-themed progressive rock on the album First Utterance (1971); they reunited in 2008 and remain active.
Älgarnas Trädgård
Älgarnas Trädgård, from Gothenburg, explored the studio as an instrument on a single 1972 album blending psychedelia, progressive and medieval Scandinavian folk.
Tusmørke
Tusmørke, from Skien, blend progressive rock, Nordic folk and psychedelia with an imagery drawn from local mythology; they began in 1994 as Les Fleurs du Mal and were renamed in 2009.
Minimum Vital
Minimum Vital, a progressive rock band formed in 1982 in Bègles, near Bordeaux, by twins Jean-Luc and Thierry Payssan, who combine 1970s progressive rock with medieval and baroque music.
Sagrado Coração da Terra
Sagrado Coração da Terra, a project of violinist Marcus Viana founded in Belo Horizonte in 1979, combines symphonic progressive rock with lyrics on spiritual and ecological themes.
Arco Iris
Arco Iris, a band formed in El Palomar (Buenos Aires) in 1968 by Gustavo Santaolalla, fused progressive rock and jazz with Latin American folk on records such as “Sudamérica o el Regreso a la Aurora” (1972).
Golconda
Golconda, a band from the Baix Llobregat fusing Irish and Balkan folk with progressive rock.
Fireplace
Fireplace, a Catalan project fusing jazz, folk and progressive rock, formed in 2017.
Jaume Sisa
Jaume Sisa, an essential figure of the Catalan underground, founder of Música Dispersa and author of “Qualsevol Nit Pot Sortir el Sol”.
Taraf de Haïdouks
Taraf de Haïdouks, the Romanian ensemble that brought the music of the Clejani Roma to the world.
In Extremo
In Extremo, the German medieval folk metal band with period instruments.
Wardruna
Wardruna, the Norwegian project of Einar Selvik that recreates ancient Norse music and rituals.
Garmarna
Garmarna, the Swedish band that fuses traditional folk ballads with electronic and industrial sounds.
Hedningarna
Hedningarna, the Swedish band that pioneered the fusion of Nordic folk and electronic sounds.
The Corries
The Corries, the Scottish folk duo who composed “Flower of Scotland”.
Martin Carthy
Martin Carthy, a central figure of the English folk revival and a direct influence on Bob Dylan and Paul Simon.
Silly Wizard
Silly Wizard, one of the founding bands of the Scottish folk revival.
Capercaillie
Capercaillie, the Scottish band of modern Gaelic folk led by Karen Matheson.