{"id":355,"date":"2024-01-10T11:37:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T11:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/?p=355"},"modified":"2024-01-12T09:35:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T09:35:56","slug":"lankum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/2024\/01\/10\/lankum\/","title":{"rendered":"Lankum Test 001"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_code module_class=”custom-cat” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]
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Lankum<\/h1>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”intro-text” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”]

In 2023, LANKUM<\/span> crashed through the boundaries of \u2018folk\u2019 to win thousands of new fans. Also in the van: fellow Irish pathfinders LISA O\u2019NEILL<\/span> and JOHN FRANCIS FLYNN<\/span>. As they tell JIM WIRTH<\/span>, the unexpected attention comes with benefits: \u201cThe librarian was like: \u2018I know who you are.\u2019\u201d<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-main” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”||||||||” text_font_size=”16px” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”]

Photography by ELLIUS GRACE<\/span><\/span><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/lead.jpg” title_text=”lead” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”image-gallery-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|300|||||||” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.2em” custom_margin=”-10px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]

Folk explosion: Lankum (from left) Radie Peat, Ian Lynch, Daragh Lynch and Cormac MacDiarmada take their \u201cdroney depressing music\u201d to the masses.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”text-with-dropcap” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]

THERE MAY NOT BE A FORTUNE to be made in the vanguard of a wave of Irish artists spinning off traditional music into wilder terrain, but Lankum are finding that the success of their fourth LP, False Lankum, comes with significant side-benefits.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just got to skip the queue to get my library card,\u201d says singer Radie Peat as she and bandmates Daragh Lynch and Cormac MacDiarmada meet MOJO in a pub on Dublin\u2019s northside, not far from the converted factory building where the band rehearse.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe librarian was like: \u2018I know who you are, so you don\u2019t need proof of address or ID.\u2019\u201d<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/img00.jpg” title_text=”img00″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”image-gallery-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|300|||||||” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.2em” custom_margin=”-10px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]

Taking a chance: Lisa O\u2019Neill makes powerful, strange and intimate music.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]

\u201cI was in the post office the other day setting up the PO Box for the fucking band,\u201d adds the refreshingly sweary Lynch. \u201cAnd your man who was behind the counter was like: \u2018Oh, yeah, here. I\u2019ll sort that out. Look, go to the top of the next queue. Just ask for me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf that\u2019s all that ever happens from us making music, just bureaucracy getting easier\u2026\u201d says Peat.<\/p>\n

\u201cHappy days,\u201d says McDiarmada.<\/p>\n

Airy sweet and bible black, False Lankum<\/i>\u2019s melding of seafaring songs, gloomy originals, tender ballads and thunderous noise has taken the band of thirty-and-fortysomething multi-instrumentalists to unexpected places.<\/p>\n

When they were playing for beer at pub sessions a decade ago, signing on and singing together for fun, it would have been a push for them to imagine that 2023 would find them selling out three nights at Dublin\u2019s 1,500-capacity Vicar Street, where past headliners include Ministry, Bob Dylan and Jedward.<\/p>\n

Being nominated for this year\u2019s Mercury Prize \u2013 and playing at the awards ceremony \u2013 was an extreme culture shock for a band who were once darlings of the European squat punk scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe felt so out of place,\u201d says MacDiarmada.<\/p>\n

Lynch, meanwhile, remembers seeing the corporate rock names on the seating plan and thinking: \u201cThis is a list of who\u2019s going to hell.\u201d<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=”357,358″ fullwidth=”on” module_class=”fp-gallery” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text module_class=”image-gallery-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|300|||||||” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.2em” custom_margin=”-10px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]

From Left: The year of living famously: The uncategorisable Lankum; The band at September\u2019s Mercury Prize show<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”text-with-dropcap” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]

LANKUM HAVE BEEN honing their diabolical, folk-toned acoustic racket since Lynch and his older brother Ian started out playing antisocial riffs on traditional songs at Dublin punk gigs. They linked up with childhood friends Peat and MacDiarmada \u2013 both of whom have a background in Irish traditional music \u2013 in time to record 2014\u2019s Cold Old Fire (released under the later-regretted band name Lynched), appearing on Jools Holland\u2019s Later\u2026 in 2015 as an unsigned act.<\/p>\n

Rough Trade picked them up for their first album as Lankum, 2017\u2019s Between The Earth And Sky, their deep-bass drones and black metal dynamics gathering storm force on 2019\u2019s gloomy The Livelong Day.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”pull-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#111111″ header_2_font_size=”46px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]

\u201cIT\u2019S TOO COMPLICATED TO DESCRIBE <\/b>WHAT IT IS WE\u2019RE TRYING TO DO<\/b><\/span>. THE MUSIC IS THE EXPLANATION.\u201d<\/b><\/h2>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”pullquote-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_font_size=”46px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” header_3_text_align=”center” header_3_text_color=”#E69573″ header_3_font_size=”38px” global_colors_info=”{}”]

Lankum\u2019s Radie Peat<\/b><\/h3>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]

False Lankum<\/i>, though, is a significant escalation, producer John \u2018Spud\u2019 Murphy helping to broaden their sound to an ominous acoustic swell \u2013 the Incredible String Band of the damned \u2013 as they pieced the album together during the Covid lockdown in a Napoleonic War-era Martello Tower overlooking Dublin Bay.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were living in extreme circumstances, but also in very intense natural beauty,\u201d says Peat. \u201cWe got to see the sea every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe weather was amazing,\u201d says MacDiarmada.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen the room where we made the music in has no windows, so you\u2019d go in there and you\u2019d lose a sense of time,\u201d says Peat.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike fucking sensory deprivation,\u201d says Lynch.<\/p>\n

False Lankum<\/i> revels in contrasts; pure horror on their exhumation of the traditional Go Dig My Grave, wistful bewilderment on MacDiarmada\u2019s version of Newcastle, and a more Floyd-ish big-picture ennui<\/i> on Daragh Lynch\u2019s gigantic closer, The Turn. Surprisingly, the most aggressively idiosyncratic record they have made has ended up being a commercial breakthrough.<\/p>\n

Whether this represents a sudden upturn in the fortunes of traditional music is a moot point. Lankum have an immense knowledge of folk esoterica, and an affinity for the electrified tradition exemplified by Planxty and Sweeney\u2019s Men, while their force-10 harmonies nod to The Watersons and Swan Arcade. However, there is as much Rudimentary Peni or Sunn O))) in Lankum\u2019s DNA, and the band have largely given up trying to describe what they do.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re getting a taxi sometimes and the driver is like: \u2018Oh, you\u2019re in a band\u2026,\u2019\u201d says Peat, wincing.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018What kind of music do you play?\u2019\u201d smiles Lynch.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes I just lie because I just don\u2019t really know what to say,\u201d says Peat. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t think they really would like to hear the truth. So I\u2019m like: just indie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s droney depressing folk music,\u201d jokes MacDiarmada.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s too complicated to list our influences or try to come up with words that describe what it is that we\u2019re trying to do,\u201d says Peat. \u201cThe music is the explanation; the album plus the artwork \u2013 that\u2019s what we have to say, that\u2019s what we\u2019re getting at. The only thing that explains it is the actual thing.\u201d<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=”359,360,361″ fullwidth=”on” module_class=”fp-gallery” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text module_class=”image-gallery-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|300|||||||” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.2em” custom_margin=”-10px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]

From Left: On-stage at Vicar Street, Dublin, May 29, 2023; 2017\u2019s Between The Earth And Sky<\/i> and this year\u2019s False Lankum<\/i>.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”text-with-dropcap” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]

LANKUM\u2019S TASTE FOR THE UNCATEGORISABLE IS shared by some close Dublin contemporaries. Signed to Rough Trade on Lankum\u2019s recommendation, Lisa O\u2019Neill has been much f\u00eated this year for her uncanny fifth LP, All Of This Is Chance. An elemental melding of intense lyricism, autumn-toned instrumentation and O\u2019Neill\u2019s storm-lashed voice, key songs like If I Was A Painter, Whisht, The Wild Workings Of The Mind and the transcendent Old Note feel like a horse-drawn approximation of early Patti Smith. This powerful, strange, intimate music drew her an audience of 1,800 for a March show at London\u2019s Barbican.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]

\u201cIt is more than validation,\u201d she tells MOJO, nursing a broken shoulder as we meet her at the James Joyce Centre, a short walk from central Dublin. \u201cYou\u2019re met with an understanding and it gives you a strength in your own visions.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Ballyhaise in County Cavan, O\u2019Neill moved to the capital as a teenager to study songwriting at Ballyfermot College and had self-released her first two LPs \u2013 2009\u2019s Lisa O\u2019Neill Has An Album<\/i> and 2013\u2019s Same Cloth Or Not<\/i> \u2013 before she first ran into the Lynch brothers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember meeting them at a session up on South Great George\u2019s Street, and then I met Radie maybe 10 years ago,\u201d she remembers, adding forcefully: \u201cI moved here 24 years ago, and I met these people in the folk scene in the last 10 to 15 years. I had a life before that.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Neill found her uncompromising voice while playing Sunday night sessions at the International Bar, on the south side of the River Liffey (\u201cIf you were barred from every other pub in Dublin, you might be allowed in there,\u201d she recalls). She and Lankum have shared interests (O\u2019Neill mixed trad-arrs and originals on 2018\u2019s Heard A Long Gone Song<\/i>), but they are \u2013 to paraphrase one of O\u2019Neill\u2019s songs \u2013 birdies from another realm, as indeed is John Francis Flynn, whose second LP, Look Over The Wall, See The Sky<\/i>, offers another cubist take on traditional music.<\/p>\n

Avant noise and eerie Tricky paranoia mingle with virtuoso tin whistle, as Flynn rewires old songs \u2013 The Zoological Gardens, Ewan MacColl\u2019s Dirty Old Town \u2013 into a very modern portrait of his home city.<\/p>\n

Signed after supporting Lankum on tour, Flynn played sessions alongside O\u2019Neill for years, and is excited by the creative space that his circle have opened up. \u201cIt\u2019s really heartening for people who really want to experiment,\u201d he tells MOJO. \u201cThe stuff that Lankum have put out recently, that is really incredibly challenging music.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were all playing together in the city for so long and it\u2019s a very beautiful thing that everyone\u2019s doing so well,\u201d he adds. \u201cIt\u2019s a bit intimidating coming up after them.\u201d<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=”362,363″ fullwidth=”on” module_class=”fp-gallery” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text module_class=”image-gallery-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|300|||||||” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.2em” custom_margin=”-10px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]

From Left: Dig the new breed: Lisa O\u2019Neill performing in Barcelona, February 8, 2017; John Francis Flynn on-stage at Curraghmore House, Waterford, Ireland, July 31, 2022.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”text-with-dropcap” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]

HOWEVER, LANKUM\u2019S YEAR has not been an entirely enviable one. For all the set-piece successes \u2013 not least: headlining Birmingham\u2019s experimental Supersonic festival \u2013 autumn live dates in Denmark and America were cancelled, an official statement explaining that it was necessary \u201cto preserve the health and wellbeing of our band members\u201d.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]

Peat\u2019s daughter is under two, and juggling Lankum and parenthood has not been easy. \u201cI bring my child on tour with us and it\u2019s difficult,\u201d she says. \u201cA lot more difficult than you would imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n

When MOJO show up, Lankum are enjoying a bit of down time. Ian Lynch \u2013 whose year has also encompassed side-project One Leg, One Eye and a successful extreme folk podcast, Fire Draw Near \u2013 is in America (\u201con an old-school DIY punk tour\u201d according to his Twitter feed). However, Lankum have shows booked for the winter, while Peat is simultaneously promoting CYRM<\/i>, the glowering debut album from her other band, \u00d8XN.<\/p>\n

Plans for the longer term, though, are being kept vague. \u201cAny time we\u2019re asked this question, the one thing we all say is that we want to do a soundtrack,\u201d says Daragh.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Lankum have blessings to count.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m glad we started doing what we\u2019re doing a little bit later in life,\u201d says Peat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s less risk of believing your own hype,\u201d adds Daragh. \u201cLike swanning around wearing fucking fancy jackets and looking around to see if people know who you are.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI occasionally try and take a step back,\u201d says MacDiarmada. \u201cBecause it\u2019s amazing to be acknowledged, it really is.\u201d<\/p>\n

As they finish up their pints and teas and head out onto Prospect Road, Daragh discovers that his bike \u2013 chained to a railing outside \u2013 has been severely mangled. Reckless Phibsborough bus drivers are blamed, but whatever the damage, Lankum have plenty to feel positive about. Peat goes into a little reverie as she remembers hearing Iggy Pop playing their blood and thunder assault The New York Trader on his BBC Radio 6 Music show.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd he said, in his Iggy Pop voice, the word \u2018Lankum\u2019. And I was: THAT IS SO COOL!\u201d she twinkles.<\/p>\n

All this and priority treatment at the library. As Peat says with a shrug: \u201cSometimes you have to just deliberately let your inner child be happy.\u201d<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ module_class=”custom-boxout” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#DFC0AE” custom_padding=”40px|0px|40px|0px|true|true” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px|20px|0px|20px|true|true” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text module_class=”boxout-title” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_font_size=”46px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” header_3_font=”|||on|||||” header_3_text_align=”center” header_3_text_color=”#E69573″ header_3_font_size=”38px” global_colors_info=”{}”]

BALLADS & BEYOND<\/span><\/span><\/h3>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”boxout-intro” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”24px” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”]

Five more voices taking folk into the future.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/img08.jpg” title_text=”img08″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row module_class=”details-group” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px|20px|0px|20px|true|true” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text module_class=”writer-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|700||on|||||” text_text_color=”#F4F4F4″ text_font_size=”24px” custom_margin=”50px||5px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]

THE MARY WALLOPERS <\/b><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”text-with-image” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]

A sort of reckless neo-Pogues with a slight King Kurt undertone, Dundalk\u2019s Mary Wallopers are a riot of colour (mostly green) live, but the group founded around brothers Andrew and Charles Hendy have hidden depths. There\u2019s beer and there\u2019s banjos, but 2023 second LP Irish Rock N Roll<\/i> reveals the upstart political conscience beneath the mayhem.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row module_class=”details-group” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px|20px|0px|20px|true|true” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text module_class=”writer-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|700||on|||||” text_text_color=”#F4F4F4″ text_font_size=”24px” custom_margin=”50px||5px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]

NAIMA BOCK<\/b><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”text-with-image” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]

\"\"Once a member of south London punks Goat Girl, Bock ran away to join the folkie fairies, singing trad with the Broadside Hacks collective before releasing her luminous Sub Pop debut Giant Palm in 2022: samba-toned dream pop with distant echoes of Fairport Convention. Expect a more stripped-down approach for her next project.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row module_class=”details-group” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px|20px|0px|20px|true|true” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text module_class=”writer-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|700||on|||||” text_text_color=”#F4F4F4″ text_font_size=”24px” custom_margin=”50px||5px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]

JIM GHEDI<\/b><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”text-with-image” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]

\"\"The Sheffield experimentalist graduated into free-form guitar with 2015\u2019s Home Is Where I Exist, Now To Live And Die. Two albums of John Fahey-style instrumentals with Toby Hay come highly recommended, but his unfettered Son David from 2021\u2019s In The Furrows Of Common Place better encapsulates his mix of bookish Bert Jansch and hunky James Dean.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row module_class=”details-group” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px|20px|0px|20px|true|true” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text module_class=”writer-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|700||on|||||” text_text_color=”#F4F4F4″ text_font_size=”24px” custom_margin=”50px||5px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]

SHOVEL DANCE COLLECTIVE<\/b><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”text-with-image” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]

\"\"From the same stable as nu-post-rockers Caroline (with whom they share members), the nine-piece Shovel Dance Collective mixed drones, trad material and found sounds on their 2022 debut The Water Is The Shovel Of The Shore. Art school kids with a taste for the gothic, they may be Lankum\u2019s closest musical relatives outside of Dublin.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row module_class=”details-group” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px|20px|0px|20px|true|true” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text module_class=”writer-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|700||on|||||” text_text_color=”#F4F4F4″ text_font_size=”24px” custom_margin=”50px||5px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]

ANGELINE MORRISON<\/b><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”text-with-image” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]

\"\"Born to a Jamaican mother and a father from the Outer Hebrides, Morrison\u2019s 2022 outing The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs Of Black British Experience was an era-defining collection of brilliantly-tooled trad homages, telling true stories of the nation\u2019s centuries-old black community. When she last spoke to MOJO, she was working on an album about alchemy.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-names” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”14px” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”]

Ellius Grace; Sorcha Frances Ryder, Getty (4)<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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