Clannad
Clannad, the Irish family band and pioneers of modern Celtic folk.
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.
Smash
Smash, the Seville band that pioneered the fusion of flamenco and progressive rock.
Mezquita
Mezquita, the Córdoba progressive Andalusian rock band of the 1970s.
Imán
Imán, Califato Independiente, the progressive Andalusian rock band from Cádiz in the 1970s.
Granada
Granada, the Madrid symphonic progressive rock band (the name comes from the fruit, not the city).
Guadalquivir
Guadalquivir, the Seville progressive Andalusian rock band, a fusion of flamenco and symphonic music.
Pau Riba
Pau Riba, a central figure of the Catalan counterculture, a benchmark of the fusion of folk and psychedelia with Dioptria.
Música Dispersa
Música Dispersa, the group of Jaume Sisa, Albert Batiste, Selene and Brabo, a reference of Catalan counterculture in the seventies.
Companyia Elèctrica Dharma
Companyia Elèctrica Dharma, the Barcelona progressive rock and folk band, a reference of Catalan music in the seventies.
Cai
Cai, the Cádiz Andalusian rock band that fused flamenco and progressive rock.
Ñu
Ñu, the Madrid progressive rock band of the seventies, led by José Carlos Molina.
Saurom
Saurom, the folk metal band from Cádiz with epic and fantasy themes.
Mägo de Oz
Mägo de Oz, the Madrid folk metal band, the most popular on the Spanish scene.
Ougenweide
Ougenweide, the German electric medieval folk band, a reference of the Central European scene of the 1970s.
Malicorne
Malicorne, the French band that electrified traditional French song in the 1970s.
Alan Stivell
Alan Stivell, the Breton artist who revived the Celtic harp and drove the Celtic music revival.
Värttinä
Värttinä, the Finnish contemporary folk band rooted in Karelia, known for its female voices in unison.
Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance, the Australian duo of Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard, a fusion of world music and neoclassicism.
The Chieftains
The Chieftains, the unofficial embassy of traditional Irish music around the world.
Planxty
Planxty, the foundational band of modern Irish folk and a reference for the whole scene that followed.
Pentangle
Pentangle, the fusion of English folk and jazz by Bert Jansch, John Renbourn and Jacqui McShee.
Steeleye Span
Steeleye Span, the British electric folk-rock band with Maddy Prior on vocals since 1969.
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention, the founders of British folk-rock, with Sandy Denny as their reference voice.
Shakti
Shakti, John McLaughlin’s Indo-jazz fusion band and one of the most influential fusion projects of the seventies.
Gryphon
Gryphon, the British band that fused medieval instruments with progressive rock.
White Willow
White Willow, the Norwegian symphonic retro-prog band with touches of folk and gothic.
Triana
Triana, the founding band of “Andalusian rock”, which fuses flamenco and progressive rock.
Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull, Ian Anderson’s band and his flute played on one leg: from British blues to the mock concept album “Thick as a Brick” and a Grammy still remembered as one of the strangest in history.
Blair Dunlop releases “What Still Survives” on 30 October, produced by Ian Grimble
A sixth album from the British songwriter, produced by Ian Grimble and with CJ Hillman’s pedal steel on several tracks. The first taste is “Are You Loved?”, from 18 September.
Sheila Chandra – Echo
Sixteen live and session takes, every one of them a single take, which Chandra presents as her final album fifteen years after losing her voice.
Sheila Chandra releases “Echo”, a collection of live recordings she presents as her likely final album
Real World puts out ten takes from concerts and radio sessions today by the British singer, who lost her voice fifteen years ago. The digital adds six.
Gaspar Claus – CELLS
Everything you hear on this record comes out of one cello, processed until it doesn’t sound like one. Made in Banyuls-sur-Mer, with Matt Elliott singing and a closing track titled in Catalan.
Ensemble Tikoro take Sundanese overtone singing into extreme metal and release “Tortoise” on 23 October
Five voices from West Java mixing extreme metal technique, overtone singing and the voices of the demons from the Wayang Golek puppet theatre.
Frank London – Touzle Your Kurchy
London drags eighteenth-century fife and drum music into a Lower East Side backstreet: eight public-domain pieces cut in a single session, with tuba, fiddle and washboard.
This Is The Kit release “Ghost Coat” on 15 January, recorded at Rockfield with Richard Dawson and Sam Amidon
Kate Stables’ seventh album lands three and a half years after “Careful of Your Keepers” and is trailed by “Skim a Stone”. Twelve songs in all.
Gordan release “Gastarbeiter” on 20 November, a record about the songs migrant workers left behind
The third record from the trio of Svetlana Spajić, Andi Stecher and Guido Möbius comes out on Glitterbeat, built from the repertoire Yugoslav emigrants left in Germany.
L’eveil – Wars of Abstraction
Forty-one minutes of solo acoustic guitar, no layers, no effects. Matthew Nichols brings metal phrasing to four ten-minute pieces, and sometimes runs short of air.
Rhiannon Giddens releases «Hope Is The Thing With Feathers», recorded live in a Louisiana house
Rhiannon Giddens releases ‘Hope Is The Thing With Feathers’, recorded live at a Louisiana house between tour dates, out now on Nonesuch.
Eivør releases «Tungl» on 16 October, presenting it with two nights in Tórshavn and one in Reykjavík
Eivør’s first record for Nuclear Blast, «Tungl», is previewed by «Spøkilsir / Revenants», with a European tour skipping Spain.
Söndörgő release «In Residence at Müpa», featuring three Snarky Puppy musicians and the Balanescu Quartet
Söndörgő’s Budapest residency across folk, classical and jazz nights becomes a record, with guests from Snarky Puppy and the Balanescu Quartet.