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Artist

Song

Time

Album

Year

1 Hayden Pedigo NN 09_30_2025

0:02:04

Hayden Pedigo

Smoked

5:07

I’ll Be Waving As You Drive Away

2025

FAUN Hex NN 09_30_2025

0:07:40

Faun

Nimue

4:40

Hex

2025

3 Mushroom Divine NN 09_30_2025

0:13:00

Mushroom Divine

Bay of Sirens

5:20

Visions of the Divine Mushroom

2024

4 Corde Oblique NN 09_30_2025

0:18:52

Corde Oblique

Momenti senza nome

3:37

Itri

2015

5 Fearful Symmetry NN 09_30_2025

0:23:06

Fearful Symmetry

The Dance of the Ghillie Dhu

5:36

I’ve Started so I’ll Finish

2025

6 Fief NN 09_30_2025

0:29:12

Fief

The Knight Of The Elves Blows His Horn

5:33

VI

2024

7 Sangre de Meurdago NN 09_30_2025

0:35:11

Sangre De Muerdago

O xardín

7:18

O Xardín

2025

8 Annlaug Borsheim NN 09_30_2025

0:43:08

Annlaug Børsheim

Sjeldan fugl

5:32

Spring før sola står opp

2025

9 Flaer NN 09_30_2025

0:49:08

Flaer

Starling Descends

2:52

Translations

2025

0:52:00

Flaer

Souvenir

2:44

Translations

2025

10 Azam Ali NN 09_30_2025

0:55:06

Azam Ali

To Pieces

4:16

Single

2025

I’ll Be Waving As You Drive Away

by Hayden Pedigo

favorite track

Smoked

Superb guitarist from Texas, all of these tracks are gems, well worth keeping in heavy rotation. Hayden plays acoustic and electric guitars, and electric piano, while guests play bass, synths, ebow guitar, violin, acoustic piano, and pedal steel guitar. Recorded in Nashville, there is an occasional hint of country, but there is plenty else to unpack here, as my favourite track, Smoked, proves.

FAUN “Hex” 2025 One of the most-anticipated wyrd/pagan/Medieval//folk releases of the year does not disappoint. The septet performs on a wide variety of traditional instruments, truly too many to list, but you probably get the idea with the genre description. Chelsea Wolfe and Fatma Turgut make guest appearances. The music throughout, as always, is intense and riveting. I am choosing Nimue (NEEM way), as being most representative of the work as a whole, but there is so much to love throughout. Favourite Track: Nimue (4:38)

Visions of the Divine Mushroom

by Mushroom Divine

favorite track

Bay of Sirens

This is a collaborative effort, the duo of William Desmond and Taylor Barefoot, with several noted guests.Instrumentation is electric and acoustic hammered dulcimer, bass dulcimer, santoor, electric and acoustic guitars, multiple keyboards, electric sitar, bass, and percussion. There are choral styled vocals as well. The resultant aural deliciousness is ambient and hypnotic, with medieval, post rock, and space elements, and let’s not forget those mushrooms. Psilocybic, indeed.

Itri (EP)

by Corde Oblique

favorite track

Momenti senza nome

Corde Oblique has released this lovely EP of some previously unreleased tracks, and director’s cuts versions from a 2013 album. Riccardo Prencipe is the composer and mastermind behind these gorgeous pieces of music, which are a distinctive blend of folk and classical, with a decided Italianate flair. Instrumentation is classical guitar, violin, contrabass, and percussion, with vocals by Annalisa Madonna and Francesca Cacciatore. A class act all through.

I’ve Started So I’ll Finish (16-bit)

by Fearful Symmetry

favorite track

The Dance of the Ghillie Dhu

This third offering from multi-instrumentalist Suzi James and company continue in their tradition of mixing styles ranging from progressive rock to Middle Eastern and Celtic motifs and even throwing in some southern jam rock grooves for good measure. Suzi provides guitars, bass, keyboards, flute, violin, oud, and mandolin; Yael Shotts lends her instantly recognizable clean vocals; and the articulate drums are played by Sharon Petrover. Mark Cook guests on Warr guitar

VI

by Fief

favorite track

The Knight Of The Elves Blows His Horn

Neomedieval folk dungeon synth from an anonymous Salt Lake City composer and musician. There are no credits, but obviously, synths play a part in creating the imaginary worlds this artist conjures up. Plenty of plinkiness here, in a most delightful way, could be harp, harpsichord, or hammered dulcimer, or maybe all three. Let yourself be enchanted.

O Xardín

by SANGRE DE MUERDAGO

favorite track

O xardín

Galician quartet that has brought the beauty of this region’s music to life for almost 20 years. This latest release features nyckelharpa, clarinet, classical and steel string guitars, hurdy-gurdy, with various bells and traditional percussive elements. All of the gentlemen provide vocals, with Pricilla da Costa guesting as vocalist on the title track, my favourite.

Spring før sola står opp

by Annlaug Børsheim

favorite track

Sjeldan fugl

Bringing us folk rock from Bergen Norway, this artist combines the traditional music of her homeland with jangly and washy electric guitars, bass and percussion. She plays Hardanger fiddle, and guitar, and provides the clean and expressive vocals, all sung in Norwegian.

Translations

by Flaer

favorite track

Starling Descends

Experimental ambient contemporary classical composer Realf Heygate releases his works under the moniker, “Flaer.” He incorporated field recordings, and also some eerily decaying tapes of his mother, practicing Spanish. The result is elegiac, meditative, and contemplative.

To Pieces (Single)

by Azam Ali

Azam Ali is an award winning multi-talented artist, and composer. She has utilized many styles, from Early Music, Medieval, Middle Eastern, and electronica, and sings in multiple languages. She has composed many pieces for film, television, and video games as well. Excitedly awaiting the full release, but we can enjoy this single in the meantime.