by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on Album | Josienne Clarke – Onliness (Songs of Solitude & Singularity)
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there” So begins L.P. Hartley’s 1953 novel The Go-Between, but it could easily apply to this wondrous reclamation of a past that had almost been considered lost forever. The story…
by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on EP | Josienne Clarke – Now & Then
Surprises come in many forms, but none in any finer or more beautiful shape than this release by Josienne Clarke. Recorded as a stop gap between last year’s amazing A Small Unknowable Thing and its companion EP I Promised You…
by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on EP | Josienne Clarke – I Promised You Light
In August last year, Josienne Clarke emerged from the fog that she had lived in for over a decade. In her fight to be recognised for work that she’d written, she’d been labelled a troublemaker. Instead of allowing this to…
by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on EP | Mr. Alec Bowman_Clarke – A Place Like Home
One of the few things that truly helped me through the first few months of the original lockdown all that time ago was Mr. Alec Bowman’s debut album I Used to be Sad but Then I Forgot – an album…
by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on Album | Josienne Clarke – A Small Unknowable Thing
Josienne Clarke has fought to be given the credit her work has deserved for years. It’s been exhausting and she admits that she had to be explicit in explaining how much her name and talent warranted recognition, as if she…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on EP | Josienne Clarke & Kit Downes – Such A Sky
Melancholia gives way to the slightest glimpse of hope on Such A Sky, the surprise new EP from BBC Folk Award winner Josienne Clarke and former Mercury Prize nominee Kit Downes. Though the pairing of Clarke’s voice with a virtuosic…
by Lynn Roberts • • Comments Off on News | Patch & the Giant curate a Christmas show in London
One of our favourite new bands Patch & the Giant are putting on a Christmas extravaganza, with a line up featuring tons of the artists who are on this year’s For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas record. The band have teamed up with…
by Lynn Roberts • • Comments Off on #161 Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker – Fire and Fortune
The title track from Christmas album alumni Josienne and Ben’s new record, Fire and Fortune is an original composition among an album of old and new songs. A sparsely orchestrated, building track that shows off Josienne’s gorgeous vocals perfectly. If…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Album | Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker – Fire & Fortune
What does it take to redirect the trends of culture? Is it money, or is it love? Was mankind tuned into disco, to apocalyptic movies? Or were they tuned into us? These are big questions. These are big, pretentious questions…
by Ellie Rumbold • • Comments Off on News | Folkroom release Anthology Two
Folkroom Records have released their second record, titled Anthology Two. The album features eleven especially-recorded tracks from the likes of Lucy Cait, Ellie Rumbold, Andrew Butler, Worry Dolls, Herons!, Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker, Zoe Wren, The Moon, The Son &…