A very few records exist that one can describe as “magical” – a very dangerous, double-edged attribute when it comes to music and art, as it can entail the deepest probing of the unconscious as well as the most kitsch,…
With his debut solo album, Toronto-based singer/songwriter Dave Allen establishes himself as a bona fide roots music auteur, transporting us to a place that to our modern perceptions will seem uncomfortably foreign, or conversely, all too real. Listeners previously heard…
If indeed there were ghosts writing music, or just listening to it, the ones behind I Was Hoping You’d Pass By Here would the subdued, contemplative, but also inquisitive type one can find in, say, the recent movie ‘A Ghost…
Following the acclaim that they had received with their debut album Comfort Songs, Cloud’s Tyler Taormina and friends are prepping to release their newest effort, Plays With Fire, on 9 March. Prior to this, For Folk’s Sake is proud to present the…
The pain was unbearable But I did not want it to end It had operatic grandeur It lit up Grand Central Station like Judgement Day Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept Almost everyone has some…
An Englishman with a fascination for Americana, Alexander Shields mines a haunting seam of shoegaze. Having worked with a larger ensemble on his last album, including members of Silver Jews, Lambchop and William Tyler, for Passover he’s recorded with childhood…
Dear reader, have you ever become acquainted with an individual, get to know them for one thing they’re very good at, and then be positively shocked when you discover that, “Hey, they are also very good at this other thing!”…
Jazz may have had its start in the west, but Japan may well lead the charge for innovative pursuits in the genre in our modern-day. Tokyo’s jazz scene, in particular, thrives more by the day, with traditional and fusion-style jazz…
From an outsider’s perspective, Brandon and Bethany Foote might well be mistaken for superheroes instead of a folk duo. Between job changes, relocating, and a free-roaming toddler to take care of, it’s a wonder that they still can manage the time to…
Releasing an album as multifarious as this Italian singer-songwriter’s latest comes with its fair share of mountains to climb. Some might claim that with the broad range of influences across the entirety of the roots spectrum present song-per-song on Luca Bash’s Keys…