Black as Chalk release music video for their Single Snake Handler.
New album Ouro by the band from Göttingen to be released September 14th 2018.
For this, the Band produced a video with filmmakers EneMeneMovie from Göttingen, in which Florian Donath from Deutsches Theater Göttingen plays the leading role. From this emerged a captivating music video where the protagonist flees through a kafkaesque office maze from ‒ literally ‒ faceless colleagues.
The (more…)
With sadness we have heard of Liam O’Flynn’s death. We address all our condolences to Liam’s family and dear friends. Liam was a founding member of the influental Irish folk music band PLANXTY with Christy Moore, Andy Irvine and Donal Lunny. After the band broke up, O’Flynn worked with Kate Bush, Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler, among others, and released a (more…)
„Tales are singing“ – Fairytale is going back to the roots of folk music: the band is combining old Celtic myths and modern fantasy in their concert story.
A return to acoustic guitar music with Irish Folk, Pop Folk elements and lots of own ideas, band founder and guitarist Oliver Oppermann composed his first songs, back in 2013. In the founding (more…)
„…it’s difficult to think of comebacks more impeccable than Van der Graaf Generator’s”, the BBC wrote in awe about the over 50 years old progressive rock band’s reunion.
At the time, Peter Hammill (guitar, keyboards, singer), Hugh Banton (organ, piano), Guy Evans (drums) as well as David Jackson (saxophone, cross flute) Van der Graaf Generator’s “original line up”.
In the prior years, Peter (more…)
Besides their very successful albums such as “God’s Own Medicine” (1986), “Children” (1988) and above all “Carved In Sand” (1989), “The Mission” primarily established themselves as a live band: whether as a support act for (i.e.) “U2” or “The Cure” or as famous European festivals’ headliner – or on their own distinct tours. Wayne Hussey stresses in a lot of interviews (more…)
In 2018, MIG Music is further pushing on with their activities in the fields of folk and folk rock. After the first releases of the albums of two main players of English folk rock – Richard Thompson and Iain Matthews, both founding members of Fairport Convention – MIG Music is going to release a live recording by the Irish cult band PLANXTY from (more…)
