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Rootless; New Single Ushti Baba

Bristol’s fine purveyors of idiosyncratic folk-raving, Ushti Baba, who if you’re in Devizes you might recall played Street Festival in 2022, have a new single…..

Chucking Fairport Convention a human beatboxer is probably not the best idea, neither would handing Mr C a concertina; herein lies the genius of Ushti Baba.

 “A song about the brittle nature of art and of those creating it and the fragility of meaning; the stories we tell ourselves about who we are,” the band describe it, from an idea originating back in 2015 while jamming with other musicians around a campfire outside squatted garages.

I would never advocate anyone covering Sparks’ This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both of Us, but if someone’s life depended on it, and it was up to the Afro-Celt Sound System to save them, it might come off a tad like this! Though this remark might sound a smidgen critical, it really isn’t intended to be, because that would be one heck of a tricky number to effectively pull off, and while Ushti Baba’s sound is kooky, it’s avant-garde and beguiling, ergo apt for such a unnatural request. If anyone could make a good job of a cover like that, the Baba could, for which you’ve got to hand it to them!

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Deadlight Dance New Single & Video

New single from our gothic duo Deadlight Dance, taken from March’s album Vox Populi…. Second tune on the album, a ballad to the poisonous evergreen…

Brian on FullTone Festival

Our regular historian and Visiting Research Fellow of The Regional History Centre, UWE Bristol, Brian Edwards takes some time to sketch the FullTone Orchestra ahead…