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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 21/08/2026
I think Bryars’ annual playing of the piece at St Martin’s In The Field in solidarity with London’s homeless population helps put to rest the idea that it is exploitative.
Yet the deepest association the piece has is with homelessness. When Bryars performed his 12-hour marathon, his ensemble was joined by 60 fledgling musicians who had all had experiences of that world. At London’s St Martin-in-the-Fields church, he performs it at an annual act of worship for the capital’s homeless people. “There’s a moment in the service,” he says, “when they read out the names of every homeless person who has died in London that year. The act of naming them is very powerful. They are no longer anonymous.”

When Jesus’ Blood was nominated for the Mercury prize in 1993, the Daily Star “decided to do a story about how I was exploiting the homeless”, he recalls. “They were going to find the man.” They didn’t get far. Bryars had tried and failed 20 years earlier. No footage of him existed. Nobody has even tracked down the finished documentary. The total anonymity of the singer gives the piece an even more profound sense of tragedy and mystery.
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 07/08/2026
It’s Bandcamp Friday so it’s 15% off all releases from 8am UK time. Use the code ‘fifteen’ at checkout.
Bandcamp Friday - 15% off all releases from 8am UK time. Use the code ‘fifteen’ at checkout
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 06/08/2026
Now playing: Bliss Out For Days. Don’t mind if I do.
Various Artists: Bliss Out For Days LP
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 03/08/2026
Jack Sharp & @naomirandall.bsky.social’s The Thorn were the high point of this year’s Cambridge Folk Festival for me: firmly in that fine tradition of psychedelic folk rock pioneered by Trees. Naomi’s classic English folk voice is perfect for this. Can’t wait for the album! Here’s some lo-fi pics…
Jack Sharp and Naomi Randall of The Thorn at Cambridge Folk Festival main stage on Sunday 2nd August 2026The Thorn at Cambridge Folk Festival main stage on Sunday 2nd August 2026Jack Sharp and Naomi Randall of The Thorn at Cambridge Folk Festival main stage on Sunday 2nd August 2026
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 29/07/2026
I would happily spend whatever time I have as honcho of Folk Police Recordings bringing out records that sounds vaguely like this beauty
A photo of Ernest Hood’s Neighbourhoods CD taken in my local neighbourhood
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 27/07/2026
Folk Police Recordings Autumn schedule. More details soon
A man stands in a tunnel of plants looking up at them growing over his head.A boy in a striped t-shirt with his back to the camera flies a kiteTwo men make live electronic music in a forest
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 17/07/2026
Absolutely wonderful review of The Silent Harvest Vol 1 by Mat Smith in the latest @electronicsound.bsky.social - he totally gets what we were trying to do. Thank you! 🙏 ❤️🙏
Short excerpt from a review of the silent harvest in the latest electronic sounds magazine
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 25/06/2026
I reviewed Akira Film Script’s wonderful Into Eternity++ for Wall of Ambient open.substack.com/pub/wallofam...
Cover of Into Eternity++
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 20/06/2026
The best UK folk music imo is 1970s UK folk music. And one of the best practitioners of this was the peerless Barry Dransfield. Very sorry to hear we lost him this week. I’ll be digging out some of his music.
Robin & Barry Dransfield - Lord of All I Behold LP
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 17/06/2026
Lot one: packaged, labelled, ready to go!
Copies of The Silent Harvest ready to go out into the wild
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 17/06/2026
Though it’s all a bit like this round here
A shell shocked Postman Pat
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 17/06/2026
The Silent Harvest CDs have FINALLY arrived. Big mail out incoming!
The Silent Harvest - CD front coverThe Silent Harvest - CD back coverThe Silent Harvest - CD inner sleeveThe Silent Harvest - CDs
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 27/05/2026
Thank you @bobfischer.bsky.social for a lovely review of Plague Dogs by @heartwood9.bsky.social in the latest edition of @electronicsound.bsky.social 🙏❤️🙏
Image of Bob Fischers review of Plague Dogs
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 27/05/2026
Listening party - link in bio!
Silent Harvest listening party flyer
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 18/05/2026
The first volume of The Silent Harvest is released on June 5th as a double CD and a digital download. It’s available to preorder from Friday 22nd May.
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 09/05/2026
An excerpt from The Gosport Tragedy by @veryanmusic.bsky.social from The Silent Harvest on Folk Police Recordings. Coming Soon.
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 01/05/2026
#bandcampfriday
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 26/04/2026
Coming soon - follow us on Bandcamp or join the mailing list for more details. Links in bio.
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 23/04/2026
Somewhat precarious first batch of Plague Dogs ready to post. I won’t win any beauty prizes for packing! Soundtrack - in another country by Tim Story from 1983
Three precarious piles of packaged Plague Dogs CDs next to in another country LP by Tim Story
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 22/04/2026
Well look what’s arrived at Folk Police Towers @heartwood9.bsky.social Exciting!
Front, back and inner gatefold of Plague Dogs CD by the Heartwood Institute
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 07/04/2026
Two weeks till release day!
The Heartwood Institute- Plague Dogs. Released Monday 20th April. Now available to preorder- link in bio.
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 31/03/2026
RIP to the legend that was Bill Leader
Bill Leader in the studio
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 24/03/2026
Plague Dogs by @heartwood9.bsky.social is currently the bestselling ‘radiophonic’ CD on Bandcamp!
Bestselling ‘radiophonic CD on Bandcamp - Plague Dogs by the Heartwood Institute
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 13/03/2026
Earth Studies Field Trip #1: The Heartwood Institute - Plague Dogs. Out on 20th April.
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 10/03/2026
Coming on 20th April. The first Earth Studies Field Trip. More soon.
Earth Studies Field Trips logo
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 15/02/2026
Great album. I saw them a couple of years later at the New Ardri Ballroom in Hulme, Manchester with fIREHOSE and AC Temple supporting. A mind-blowing set -see below! And yes, ’dropping’ in this context sets the teeth on edge a little :)
Schizophrenia 
Catholic Block 
Tuff Gnarl 
Pipeline 
Expressway to Yr Skull 
PCH 
Cotton Crown 
Stereo Sanctity 
Beauty Lies in the Eye 
Tom Violence 
White Kross
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Hotwire My Heart
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 15/02/2026
Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19
The Mob - Let the tribe increase album cover
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 30/01/2026
This sounds right up my alley! Folk horror only this:
Front cover of Topic Records compilation The Iron Muse - A panorama of British industrial folk music
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 30/01/2026
These days I simply point to Thomas Tryon’s Harvest Home and say “this”
Dust jacket for first edition of Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 29/01/2026
Now playing: Heard a Long Gone Song by the incomparable Lisa O’Neill, possibly one of my favourite singers 😍
Lisa O’Neill - Heard a Long Gone Song LP
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 23/01/2026
Front cover of The Misunderstood 3 track e.p. Released on Cherry Red in 1982Back cover of The Misunderstood 3 track e.p. Released on Cherry Red in 1982
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 21/01/2026
Tracklisting
set 1:
Pentangle -- When I Was in My Prime -- Cruel Sister (Transatlantic, 1970)
Robin & Barry Dransfield -- The Conscript’s Farewell – Popular to Contrary Belief (Free Reed, 1977)
Dolores Keane -- There Was a Maid in Her Father’s Garden -- There Was a Maid (Claddagh, 1978)
Skara Brae -- Bánchnoic Éireann Óighe (The Fair Hills of Ireland) -- Skara Brae (Gael-Linn, 1971)
Flora MacNeil -- Craobh Nan Ubhal (Apple Tree) -- Craobh Nan Ubhal - Traditional Gaelic Songs from the Western Isles (Tangent, 1976)
set 2:
Muckram Wakes -- Spencer the Rover -- A Map of Derbyshire (Trailer, 1973)
Dick Gaughan -- Jock O’Hazeldean -- No More Forever (Trailer, 1972)Andy Irvine & Paul Brady -- Autumn Gold – Andy Irvine / Paul Brady (Mulligan, 1976)
Dando Shaft -- September Wine -- An Evening with Dando Shaft (Young Blood/Decca, 1970)
Tim Hart & Maddy Prior -- Bring Us in Good Ale -- Summer Solstice (B & C, 1971)
set 3:
The Incredible String Band -- Here Till Here is There -- Liquid Acrobat as Regards the Air (Island, 1971)
Lal & Mike Waterson -- The Scarecrow -- Bright Phoebus (Trailer, 1972)
Trees -- Adam’s Toon -- On the Shore (CBS, 1970)
Strawbs -- Witchwood -- From the Witchwood (A&M, 1971)
Bridget St. John -- Curl Your Toes -- Ask Me No Questions (Dandelion, 1969)
Roy Harper -- My Friend -- Sophisticated Beggar (Strike, 1967)
Michael Chapman -- You Say -- Rainmaker (Harvest, 1969)
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 21/01/2026
It makes me unreasonably happy to know that there are English folk bands out there that base their entire look on the fellow from this Matt Bors cartoon
Matt Bors  cartoon where Mr Gotcha tries to get one over on a peasant making a mild suggestion for societal improvement
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 21/01/2026
Tracklisting:
Steeleye Span - Captain Coulston
Steeleye Span - When I was on Horseback
Steeleye Span - The Gower Wassail
The Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs
The Trimdon Grange Explosion - The Bonnie Banks of Fordie
Trees - The Streets of Derry
Trees - Polly on the Shore
Espers - Widow’s Weeds
Fuzzy Lights - Fen Creatures
Starless and Bible Black - Up With the Orcadian Tide
The 18th Day of May - Lady Margaret
Shelagh McDonald - The Dowie Dens of Yarrow
P.G. Six - January
The Woods Band - As I Roved Out
Wolf People - Silbury Sands
Heron Oblivion - Beneath Fields
Wooden Shjips -Flight
Galaxie 500 - When Will You Come Home?
Wooden Wand - Southern Colorado Song
Six Organs of Admittance - Spirits Abandoned
Bevis Frond -Stars Burn Out
Bevis Frond - Focus on Nature
Tim Erickson - Poor Honest Men
Godspeed You Black Emperor - The Dead Flag Blues
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 19/01/2026
Now playing: Grass. Such a beautiful album. I could listen to this sort of heavy psych folk rock all day
Grass LP cover. Phone camera knackered so very lo fi
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 12/01/2026
Charity Shop bargain! The vinyl is pristine and the sleeve is a thing of beauty
LP sleeve- A Soldier’s Life For Me, Folksongs of Britain Vol 8 1961 Caedmon Records USA
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 11/01/2026
Post a picture of the venue where you saw your first concert and name the band or artist. The Clash supported by The Slits, Wolverhampton Civic Hall, 20th December 1978
Photo from the 1970s of Wolverhampton Civic Hall
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 20/12/2025
Now playing: Starry Mind by PG Six. IMHO, opening track ‘January’ is a textbook example of 21st century folk rock at its most thrilling
Starry Mind LP by PG Six
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 17/12/2025
Hey heavy-psych-folk-rock-loving drummers in the North West of England! Get in touch…
Ad for drummer for electric folk group featuring strange bearded drummer against psychedelic mauve background
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 16/12/2025
Still, imo, one of the greatest albums ever made
Galaxie 500 On Fire LP
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 16/12/2025
Now playing: The Trimdon Grange Explosion’s self titled debut from 2018. A fantastic album, especially their version of the traditional ‘The Bonnie Banks of Fordie’ which is easily in my top five folk-rock songs
Trimdon Grange Explodion debut LP. My phone camera has gone slightly fish-eyed
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 15/12/2025
Favourite albums of 2025 in no particular order, Part 3, featuring: Polaroid Notes; @dj-surgeon.bandcamp.com; @philfrodsham.bsky.social; The Green Kingdom; Kenji Kihara; Francesca Marongiu; Gamardah Fungus; Ai Yamamoto; @matthewhiram.bsky.social; @whitelabrecs.bsky.social; @ctatsu.bsky.social
Album covers for:
Polaroid Notes -Inner Harmonies
Anthony Child - Of the Beginning
Deccan Traps - Sentinel of the Moors
The Green Kingdom - Environs
Kenji Kihara - Winds of Eternity
Francesca Marongiu - Still Forms in the Air
Gamardah Fungus - Trees & Roots
Ai Yamamoto - Less Hype More Hyphae
Hiram - Green, Green Earth
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 15/12/2025
Favourite albums of 2025 in no particular order, Part 2, featuring: @jo-johnson.bsky.social; @chloeharris.bsky.social; @polypores.bsky.social; @flcartographer.bsky.social; @quietdetails.bsky.social; @silver-threads.bsky.social; @worriedaboutsatan.bsky.social; Wil Bolton. More to follow…
Album covers - 
Jo Johnson - Alterations Vol 1
Jo Johnson - Escape now
Raica - The Absence of Being
Raica - If Not Now, When?
Polypores- I Wish There Was a Place Like That
Polypores - Cosmically a Shambles
Worriedaboutsatan - Subtle Manoeuvres
Field Line Cartographer - Solar Maximum
Wil Bolton - South of the Lake
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 15/12/2025
Favourite albums of 2025 in no particular order, Part 1, featuring: @fuzzylightsband.bsky.social; @johnswanke.bsky.social; Dylan Golden Aycock; Weirs; Phantom Spell; Haress; @adamhipwell.bsky.social & @kasperkiewicz.bsky.social; Joseph Decosimo. Part 2 to follow!
Album covers for John Swanke - Rain Country;  Dylan Golden Aycock - No New Summers; The New Eves - The New Eve is Rising; Weirs - Diamond Grove; Fuzzy Lights - Fen Creatures Phantom Spell - Heather & Hearth; Haress- Skylarks; Hipwell + Kasperkiewicz - Hemispheres; Joseph De Cosimo - Fiery Gizzard
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 14/12/2025
Still obsessed with Fen Creatures by @fuzzylightsband.bsky.social - I’ve already played it a ridiculous number of times. Love it when a record grabs you like that
Fuzzy Lights Fen Creatures LP
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 12/12/2025
As it’s my birthday I also snuck in a little present I bought for myself…
Two books - Billy Bragg’s Roots, Radicals & Rockers and Shirley Collins’ All in the Downs
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 11/12/2025
Just heard about Electric Folk by Blackthorn, an Irish album recorded in 1972 and produced by Dave Pegg and now I really need to hear it
Increasingly excited man meme, wording says: rare electric folk; from Ireland; recorded in 1972; produced by Dave Pegg
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 07/12/2025
RIP Martin Parr. Loved his work. I always thought this one would make a brilliant album cover (Pant Shrapnel was a terribly named band that nearly existed)
Saturated photo by Martin Parr of a sunburned man in an eye mask and Paisley speedos. The words Pant Shrapnel randomly added by me
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 05/12/2025
QTP an album you’d rate a perfect 10/10
Gene Clark, No Other - a 10/10 LP
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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 02/12/2025
Now playing: digging out some rather nice psych folk I’ve not listened to in an age - The Glittering Fishes Were Stars by April in the Orange (US, self-released, 2011 with a hand-decorated sleeve). Can’t find anything about them online other than a couple of copies for sale on Discogs and eBay
The Glittering Fishes Were Stars LP by April in the Orange with hand drawn sleeve
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