CW: This episode contains some discussion of racism, anti-Semitism.

Kay & Erica dig into two very different albums which coincidently draw inspiration from traditional music in very different ways. They discuss having strategies to releasing music, and transcontinental musical projects which in moments like the global pandemic are reminders of the diaspora of the creators' ancestry.

BARTEES STRANGE - LIVE FOREVER

Order the record: https://shop.specialistsubjectrecords.co.uk/products/683655-bartees-strange-live-forever-lp

Listen: https://barteesstrange.bandcamp.com

Label: https://www.memory-music.net

Research:

About Will Yip https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/philly-producerengineer-will-yip-works-harder-you

No Cover podcast https://www.kosu.org/post/bartees-strange-opera-singer-football-player-genre-breaker

Better Yet Podcast http://www.betteryetpod.com/episodes/2020/10/22/bartees-strange

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/bartees-strange-live-forever-interview-1071470/

https://www.getalternative.com/interview-bartees-strange-fruit

Bartees & the Strange Fruit session

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CINDER WELL - NO SUMMER

Order the record: https://shop.specialistsubjectrecords.co.uk/products/674677-cinder-well-no-summer-lp

Listen: https://cinderwell.bandcamp.com/

Label: https://freedirt.net/

Research:

https://americansongwriter.com/fallen-cinder-well-song-premiere/

https://glidemagazine.com/246032/video-premiere-cinder-well-inadvertently-speaks-to-our-time-with-mournful-and-timely-folk-ballad-no-summer/

http://www.hearthmusic.com/cw20

https://superworldindietunes.com/2018/05/15/super-world-interview-time-cinder-well-will-have-your-goths-for-garters/

https://antifascistneofolk.com/2020/03/23/unconscious-dreams-an-interview-with-cinder-well/

https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/new-dark-protest-folk-from-the-u-s-s-west-coast-draws-on-old-traditions

Sangre De Muerdago - A Miña Burriña (Galician Trad) - Music Box Rendition

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