English Folk

Spinning on Air

admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:55:51 +0000

Trembling Bells describe themselves as a “song-based group who seek to reanimate the psychic landscapes of Great Britain and relocate them to some vague, mythic land where basic human crises are encountered and conquered.” Members of the band have backgrounds as diverse as medieval music and free improvisation, and they reach for the ecstatic by entwining those approaches with traditional folk melodies. Visiting briefly from the UK, Trembling Bells join host David Garland to talk about and perform their music in the WNYC Studio.

www.wnyc.org/shows/spinning

Bootleg BBQ Videos

admin — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:26:57 +0000

www.britishunderground.net/video-from-the-bootleg-bbq

Trembling Bells WNYC Photos

admin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:21:08 +0000

David Garland has posted photos he shot during Trembling Bells’ session for WNYC on his flickr page.

www.flickr.com/photos/spinningonair

WNYC Radio sessions

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:53:11 +0000

Olivia Chaney and Trembling Bells recording a session for New York’s WNYC Radio.

www.flickr.com/photos/englishfolk

David Owens on BBC2 website

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:08:25 +0000

David Owens work is being shown on the BBC Radio 2 blog.

www.bbc.co.uk

Jim Moray on WNYC

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:40:01 +0000

For this New Sounds, English progressive-folk musician Jim Moray performs in the WNYC studio. Moray promises to take us on a folk adventure, riding the wave of the English folk resurgence, via guitar and piano. Also, listen to re-imagined folk songs from the Imaginary Village collection and Irish repertoire with Afro-Brazilian grooves from James Shipp’s Nós Novo. Plus, Rachel Unthank together with her sister Becky, are the Unthanks, whose kaleidoscope of unlikely instruments coupled with unsentimental storytelling forge links between folk worlds old, new and other. And much more.

www.wnyc.org

Time Out New York

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:20:15 +0000

Description: Entitled “Looking for a New England” this tour pulls together some of the most promising British folk acts (as in, actual folk, rather than some mope with an acoustic guitar). Best of the bunch are Scotland’s Trembling Bells: Signed to Damon Albarn’s Honest Jon’s imprint, the band combines ornate, fairytale brass arrangements with crashing cymbals and river-clear voices.

When: Tue 8pm

Tickets: advance $10, day of show $12

www.newyork.timeout.com

Paste Magazine

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:47:32 +0000

High praise has been piling up across the pond for a small group of musicians who are pushing the English folk form forward. This spring, Jim Moray, Trembling Bells, The Unthanks, Gadarene, Olivia Chaney and Jackie Oates will bring their mix of psychedelia, rock and traditional British folk stateside under the tour-showcase name, Looking for a New England, giving Americans a glimpse into the burgeoning UK folk scene.

Read in full online;

www.pastemagazine.com

Music Week

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:47:48 +0000

As South by South West rapidly approaches, British Underground, the organisation behind events like the British Bootleg BBQ, and who over the past few years have provided a platform for the likes of Amy Winehouse, Jamie Cullum and KT Tunstall to make their SXSW debuts, have announced the line up of artists that will make up its Best of New British Folk showcases taking place in the lead up to, and at, SXSW this year.

Six artists have been selected to take part in this year’s event and they are Jim Moray, Olivia Chaney, The Unthanks, Jackie Oates, Trembling Bells and Gadarene. The diverse collection of acts will begin their US assault with a show at The Social in London on March 8. This will be followed on March 16 with a show at Webster Hall in New York, and on March 19, the line-up will take to St David’s Church in Austin, Texas.

The showcases are being billed under the banner of Looking For A New England

Stuart Clarke

www.musicweek.com

Article on examiner.com

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:42:31 +0000

Looking for a New England’ showcases the best of new British folk at South by Southwest in Austin