“There can’t be many albums that reference the Beach Boys and the baroque, but then there aren’t many artists quite like Wim Oudijk. Over here he’s probably best known as a producer/arranger, but in his native Netherlands he’s best known as a former member of the likes of The Navel Orange Choir and as a solo performer. “Tree” is a 46 minute exploration of a tree from germination to termination and the uses it might find when dead. It’s a very individual album, you won’t find much that’s like it. This really is music as art, but without the pretention.”
- Neil King, FATEA

Check out the album yourself – here.

Summon The Crows – Nimming Ned – £7.99 + P&P
CD packaged in a gatefold card pocket sleeve with a unique Nimming Ned beer mat.

1. The Hermit
2. Glass Half Full
3. Tom Ferris
4. Into The Ether
5. Farewell
6. Elsie Mo
7. Mr Blood
8. Crowman

“Distinctive English folk rock. The songs deliver a cry of freedom with their ‘way of life’ statements, biting lyrics and memorable, engaging melodies.”
- Tim Caroll, Folkwords

“It’s infectious high energy folk”
- Iain Hazlewood, Spiral Earth

“Things seem to have been really happening for Nimming Ned since we last caught up with them. For a start they’ve doubled in size, now a four piece and signed to Nottingham avent garde folk indie, Folkwit and it’s from there that they released full blown album “Summon The Crows”. The fuller sound makes the band more accessible, gives more depth to the hobo folk blues, which bizarrely and mainly through Chris Woods vocal styly and Jim Walker’s fiddle seems to take on an almost Nivarnaesque quality. “Summon The Crows” atmosphere, it’s good honest fun and great value.”
-Neil King, FATEA

“Top band, one of the highlights of the Festival”
- The Big Session Organisers

“Nimming Ned are just great! Great fun, great music & a great atmosphere.”
- Edinburgh Fringe Review

“Folkwit flexes its fine wings and allows some proper rowdiness…Farewell is outstanding – an exciting taste of what this band is capable of.”
- John Shaw, BBC Radio Nottingham

“I love the guys big rootsy sound”
-Mick Smith, BBC Radio Nottingham

“…delighted everyone with their genuine warmth and gentle humour.”
- Candlelit Acoustic

“The Neds were great…really bright and funny.”
-Burnham Folk Festival

“If there was an award for jumpy, exciting, gutsy acoustic folk rock…these guys would win it!”
- Tim Carroll, Folkwords

More about Nimming Ned here.

Join us at 8pm on Thursday 26 January 2011 at the historic Salutation Inn on Houndsgate, Nottingham to celebrate the release of Summon The Crows – expect raucous folk and real ale…

More about Nimming Ned and their debut album Summon The Crows here.

Lights Over The Lake is the bands third album and builds on an approach to music first heard in their self-released Winter EP (2011) – Folk-rock with densely layered sounds, intricate backing vocals, harmonies and soaring strings alongside guitar feedback, ambient noise and electronica. It’s a wonderfully complex and engaging album with great songs, catchy tunes and a definite nod towards 60s psychedelia!

Lights Over The Lake – No Thee No Ess – £8.99 + P&P
CD packaged in a beautifully designed limited edition hand-printed sleeve created by the artists themselves.

1. Space Instrumental
2. Waiting For A King
3. Let’s Get Away
4. Distant Songs
5. Birds
6. Devastated City
7. Leaving The City
8. The Sponsor’s Song
9. Flying In Dreams
10. Really Miss
11. Loop Tape
12. Good For Me
13. Siamese Fighter
14. Deep Dark Wood

Reviews:

“Lights Over The Lake brings to mind some esteemed comparisons – Pavement and Flaming Lips to name two – and its opening trio succeeds in living up to them. Instrumental intro, Space Instrumental drives through a haze of ambience, while lush harmonies and instrumental soundscapes emphasise the melancholy of Waiting For A King. Meanwhile, Let’s Get Away For A While wouldn’t sound out of place on The Soft Bulletin…perhaps repeated listens will reveal a Pet Sounds in waiting.”
- JOC, The Miniature Music Press – themmp.tv

“Although they hail from Nottingham, The Phil Langran Band’s new album has its origins in Harlem, New York City, the neighbourhood of the African-American poet Langston Hughes who was a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance in the early 20th century.

By combining Hughes’s celebrated words with his band’s gentle bluesy folk, Langran has created something both musically astute and lyrically absorbing.

But though Hughes led a politically engaged life, the record is very much a stroll through the more romantic side of his work. The liltingly beautiful opener Juke Box Love Song sets the tone with the affecting lyric: “I could take the Harlem night and wrap around you.”

Slightly more up-tempo, Lament Over Love comes close to the old time vision Bob Dylan mined so brilliantly on 2001′s Love and Theft.

A warm, intelligent set of songs for folkies.”
- Ian Sinclair, Morning Star, 22 January 2012

Original review: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/114457

More about The Phil Langran Band here.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b019h47q/Bethan_Elfyn_21_01_2012/

Skip forward to 43:15 if you’re pushed for time.

Pulco in session @ BBC Radio Wales

The session features:

• Machines/Minds
• Hardships
• Beanbags
• Place Lid On Me

As it happens it turned out to be a big weekend for Pulco on BBC Radio Wales with Rhod Gilbert playing a track on his show and the legendary Adam Walton playing a specially recorded track on his show.

More about Pulco here – http://folkwit.com/artists/pulco

Or visit http://pulcomusic.com

TALL SHIP – Live @ Neils by Andy Whittle 1

Andy Whittle is often out on the road performing gigs up and down the UK. We highly recommend seeing him live if you get the chance. Meanwhile, check out his releases to date through Folkwit here.

A download-only single available now from Bandcamp.

More here.

“I haven’t watched one episode of ‘The only way is Essex’, I have no issue with the people or their right to portray themselves as they see fit, its just not the Essex I see when I open my front door so I wanted to write about my view, about the beauty & joy I see all around, about the hard working decent people with Es-Sex appeal.”

Johnno’s single is out on Monday 16 January – go check it out here.

Filmed by Blair Young, edited by Christy Mearns, made through The Forest Of Black.

http://www.forestofblack.co.uk/

More about Seadog here: http://folkwit.com/artists/seadog