Originating from Lucerne, Switzerland, Hanter Dro is an up and coming quartet whose vigorous post hardcore sound comes akin to the engaging experimental approach of Touché Amoré and La Dispute, juxtaposing hardcore heaviness with ambiance and atmospherics. Death by Algorithm will be the band's sophomore full length, scheduled to come out January 17th, 2020 through Little Jig Records.
Javier Vargas from Spain has long been one of the blues/rock world's best kept secrets. He has produced 8 very fine recordings, with a ninth being a greatest hits collection, but has never seemed quite able to gain the attention of a lot of North American fans. That was, until now…
" … ils se meurent, nos oiseaux"
Sings Glenmor.
That's the grim list of vessels causing major spills experienced by Britain. You will notice that one puts more quotes in term for coastal pollution by fuel oil which escaped shipwreck off our region. As if it had happened in manners, that one there was resigned …
Featuring their modern take on the traditional Breton genre known as Kan ha Diskan, La Ouache is the debut album from French quartet Matmatah. Influenced by Alan Stivell's Again LP, their 1998 debut, which combines Celtic rock with Middle Eastern folk, was produced by Claude Chamboissier and features the hit singles "Lambe an Dro" and "Les Moutons" alongside the rousing instrumental closer "Ribette's" and the hard-hitting "Troglodyte."
Batiska is the first album by a new Belgian contemporary folk music ensemble called Naragonia Quartet. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because Naragonia is also a duo formed by melodeon player Pascale Rubens and multi-instrumentalist Toon Van Mierlo on various bagpipes, accordion, bombarde, biniou and low whistles…
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive-folk music.
Gwendal and their first self-titled LP released in 1974, in my opinion one of their best works.
Alan Stivell (born Alan Cochevelou on 6 January 1944) is a Breton and Celtic musician and singer, recording artist, and master of the Celtic harp. From the early 1970s, he revived global interest in the Celtic (specifically Breton) harp and Celtic music as part of world music.[1] As a bagpiper and bombard player, he modernized traditional Breton music and singing in the Breton language. He was the precursor of Celtic rock. He is inspired by the union of the Celtic cultures and is a staunch defender of the Breton culture.
Griff might be one of the musician’s main bands, they are involved in many other musical projects. Remi is part of Minuit Guibolles and is at the start of new projects including a duo with a Portuguese accordionist and Moroccan musicians and he is more and more attracted by the art of singing…