As it is the season, we’re rounding of our year of sessions with a Christmas song from site favourite Alessi’s Ark. The song is part of the It’s Briiiiiixmaaaaaas! album, organised by Brixton Hill Studios, which features six original songs.…
Alessi’s Ark is back with the release of new single ‘Devant Moi’. And it marks a departure for Alessi Laurent-Marke, who sings entirely in French, a mother tongue for the Hammersmith-born artist. What’s more, the single has been released via…
After briefly toying with just the first name Alessi, Alessi Laurent-Marke has returned from a four year break with a new Alessi’s Arc album, Love Is The Currency; a new label, Zooey Records, and a new producer, Jag Jago. There’s…
Alessi Laurent-Marke will return in the new year with single ‘Wives‘ and an album to follow. She’s docked the Ark, but for behind today’s door of the advent calendar, we rewind to 2013 and her appearance on our fourth Christmas…
Alessi’s Ark (or Alessi Laurent-Marke) has been a firm favourite here at FFS for a long time. From her delightful debut album Notes from the Treehouse to this year’s bold, surprising offering The Still Life, on Bella Union we’ve been following Alessi’s…
It’s Chriiiiiiiistmaaaaaas! Crack open the mince pies, mull the wine, dig out your festive jumper and settle down with For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2013. Our now traditional festive compilation is available to buy now from www.forfolkssake.bandcamp.com. You can get your…
Deck the halls! Ring the bells! We’ve got Christmassy news. Team FFS are delighted to announce the tracklist for For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2013 – and give you a first peek at the artwork, designed by lighthouse-creator Sarah Oxley.…
The folk-phenomenon that is Alessi’s Ark has more good news for her fans this week. After the successful release of her third album, The Still Life and a sold-out UK tour under her belt, Alessi Laurent-Marke and her Ark have…
Here at FFS we’ve been super fans of Alessi’s Ark – aka Alessi Laurent-Marke – since the very beginning. We should probably have a badge or something. We first caught wind of Alessi when she was a whip of a…
It would be over the top to suggest that, at the age of 22, it was make-or-break time for Alessi Laurent-Marke. But there is no denying that Alessi’s Ark needed a third album of substance, something to erase words like…