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Angeline Morrison
‘Morrison’s courage in reconstructing folk repertoire is truly revolutionary. A groundbreaking album.’ New Internationalist Magazine 5 ***** Angeline mostly makes music in the genres of wyrd folk and psych folk, her work infused with elements of soul music, literature, ‘60s beat pop sounds, folklore, myth and the supernatural. With a feral approach, a handmade sonic aesthetic and a belief in the importance of tenderness, Angeline’s original compositions and re-stitchings of traditional songs focus on storytelling and the small things that often go unnoticed.
Following the October 2022 release of The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience on Topic Records, Angeline made her television debut on Later With Jools Holland. The Sorrow Songs album uses history and imagination to tell stories of UK Black ancestors in the sonic style of UK traditional and folk music. It was voted The Guardian's Folk Album of the Year for 2022.
The Sorrow Songs Band are:
Angeline Morrison (vocals & autoharp) Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne (anglo concertina & vocals) Hamilton Gross (violin & vocals) Clarke Camilleri (banjo, guitar & vocals) RECENT REVIEWS
‘A ground-breaking album.’ Folk Radio
‘An authentic, brave folk voice of black British experience.’ Tradfolk.co
‘An important, essential folk album.’ Americana-UK (9/10)
‘Unequivocally one of the finest, and most important folk albums of this, or indeed, any year.’ Folking.com "Abundant with meaning and feeling" The Guardian (4 stars, Folk Album of the Month May 2022).
"Angeline is a force of nature - stunning" Walton Folk Festival
"Dark, unsettling folk that verges on the hymnal" BBC Introducing, Devon & Cornwall.
"Angeline Morrison's gorgeous new single (Clouds Never Move) is one of the softest and most succinct statements on speaking your own truth possibly ever recorded. 2020 badly needed a song like this, in more ways than one". Record Crates United.
"Haunting... absolutely gorgeous" BBC Introducing.
