Category: Folk

  • Kathleen MacInnes: Òran na Cloiche

    Kathleen MacInnes: Òran na Cloiche

    Kathleen MacInnes is a Scottish singer who hails from South Uist, one of the islands of the Outer Hebrides archipelago off the coast of Scotland. Kathleen MacInnes’ material includes contemporary and traditional songs performed in her native Scottish Gaelic. Òran na Cloiche (the song of…

  • Trio Mediaeval: Gjendines bådnlåt

    Trio Mediaeval: Gjendines bådnlåt

    Trio Mediaeval is a vocal ensemble formed in 1997 by Anna Maria Friman (Sweden), Linn Andrea Fuglseth and Torunn Østrem Ossum (both from Norway) specialising in the sacred and mediaeval polyphonic repertoire from Italy, France and England. They have also worked extensively with contemporary composers and…

  • Marideth Sisco: High on a mountain

    Marideth Sisco: High on a mountain

    Marideth Sisco is neither a professional singer nor an actress, but when independent film director Debra Granik started researching and gathering material for her upcoming feature Winter’s Bone (2010), she hired the veteran teacher, part-time musician and journalist as a music consultant. Set in the…

  • Joanna Newsom: Colleen

    Joanna Newsom: Colleen

    A stripped down collection of three tracks featuring two alternate and rearranged versions of older songs (“Crab, Clam, Cockle, Cowrie” and “Cosmia”) and a new composition (“Colleen”), the Joanna Newsom & The Ys Street Band Ep was released in 2007, one year after her orchestral tour de force Ys. Joanna…

  • Joanna Newsom: Emily

    Joanna Newsom: Emily

    Classically trained on the piano and pedal harp, Joanna Newsom is a young independent American singer songwriter whose music is almost impossible to define. Her magnum opus to date is without a doubt her 2006 recording Ys for the Drag City record label. While drawing on…

  • Benh Zeitlin & Dan Romer: Beasts of the Southern Wild

    Benh Zeitlin & Dan Romer: Beasts of the Southern Wild

    Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) is a first independent film by Benh Zeitlin which has garnered unprecedented accolades at film festivals around the world. The film is set in Louisiana, or more precisely in “the bathtub”, an imaginary bayou cut off from the main…

  • Claudio Monteverdi: Lamento Della Ninfa

    Claudio Monteverdi: Lamento Della Ninfa

    L’Arpeggiata Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was an Italian composer in the late Renaissance whose innovative compositions led to the birth of opera as a new style of music. In addition to early operas and church music, Monteverdi published nine books of Madrigals, or Renaissance love poems…

  • Ane Brun: The Dancer

    Ane Brun: The Dancer

    Ane Brun is a Norwegian singer and songwriter based in Sweden since 2001. Since the international release of her début album in 2003, the singer has been charming audiences worldwide with her distinctive and almost theatrical voice. Ane Brun is also without question an incredibly…