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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 29/09/2026

Folk Police is on hold for the time being. Normal service will hopefully be resumed next year. CDs and downloads still available at Bandcamp. In the meanwhile here’s a rather fab mixtape of early 80s UK cassette culture electronica. www.mixcloud.com/TheFolkPolic...

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Cassettronica - Electronic Experiments On Tape 1980 - 1986

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 27/08/2026

Thank you for playing Micmac’s excellent contribution to The Silent Harvest V2 @spaceitpradio.bsky.social ❤️🙏❤️

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 25/08/2026

Thanks @trevlad.bsky.social for including Three Corbies by Green Static from the Silent Harvest vol 2 ❤️🙏❤️

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 21/08/2026

Yes, that’s exactly the vibe I get

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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 · 21/08/2026

IMO, Tom Waits’ version strips it of much that made the versions centred on the loop of the homeless man singing so poignant and beautiful. Feels very bombastic by comparison.

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 21/08/2026

Crushing Moby never failed me yet…

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 13/08/2026

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 13/08/2026

Thanks Marc. I’m having conversations with other small UK labels, trying to figure out if there’s a way we can resolve this. Fingers crossed 🤞

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 12/08/2026

I really want to carry on getting Folk Police CDs to EU friends, but the new Waste & Waste Packaging Regulations make it impossible. I hope that the disproportionate impact on small indie labels is an unintended consequence and will be resolved soon. More info here: www.side-line.com/eu-ppwr-indi...

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EU PPWR hits indie record labels and mail orders

From 12 August 2026 small European record labels and mail-order businesses selling CDs and vinyl across EU borders face the PPWR packaging bureaucracy.

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 12/08/2026

Thank you @slowclinic.bsky.social for including Salt Water Side by Down Barr Beacon from The Silent Harvest Vol 2 on this edition of Meandering Currents on @campradio.bsky.social ❤️🙏❤️

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 12/08/2026

Thanks for including a track from The Silent Harvest vol 2, James! 🙏❤️🙏

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 09/08/2026

To be fair, I think he was having way too much fun to worry about trivialities like having the wherewithal to play the gig. And it was a pretty forgiving crowd…

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 09/08/2026

Early 1992, so the tour for Congregation.

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 09/08/2026

I saw the Whigs at the Boardwalk. GD was completely off his face and the entire gig was a chaotic shambles. I cannot tell you how gutted I was. Though when he tried to get the band to play the Violent Femmes’ country death song and he couldn’t remember the words, it was quite entertaining.

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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.

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 06/08/2026

It’s Bandcamp Friday tomorrow- for 24 hours from 8am UK time use the code ‘fifteen’ at checkout for a 15% discount on digital and physical Folk Police releases! folkpolicerecordings.bandcamp.com/music

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FOLK POLICE RECORDINGS

Folk Police Recordings is a record label raising funds for wildlife conservation and nature recovery. Folk. electronica, ambient & experimental sounds. The Silent Harvest and Earth Studies Field Trips

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 05/08/2026

I keep a handful in my wallet for emergencies

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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 2026

The Thorn at Cambridge Folk Festival main stage on Sunday 2nd August 2026

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 02/08/2026

I reviewed Rhucle’s The Water on Home Normal for Wall of Ambient open.substack.com/pub/wallofam...

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Rhucle - The Water

Music for long ago summer days

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 01/08/2026

Thank you @freeyourradio.bsky.social for playing Mist Signals’ track from The Silent Harvest 2 ❤️🙏❤️

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 01/08/2026

Cheers Dillon! Much appreciated!

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Dillon @freeyourradio.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#NowPlaying on Cosmic Church @iheartnoise.bandcamp.com on @campradio.bsky.social Mist Signals - She Sang All Alone On The Shore via @folkpolice.com folkpolicerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-si... listen.camp

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The Silent Harvest Volume Two, by Various Artists

19 track album

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 31/07/2026

Thanks for including two tracks from the Silent Harvest Vol 2 ❤️🙏❤️

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 31/07/2026

I bought that one when it came out. I was 14 and couldn’t afford many albums so I listened to it over and over determined it would be a grower. Despite my efforts I couldn’t get away from there being 6 or 7 great tracks and a lot of filler. Rudy Can’t Fail, Spanish Bombs, Clampdown are great imo

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 29/07/2026

Such a fabulous album. They have copies at Juno I think

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 29/07/2026

I would also spend time learning basic English grammar, lol

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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 kite

Two men make live electronic music in a forest

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 25/07/2026

Excellent - hope you enjoy ploughing through. I was put onto him after reading Carl Hiassen’s Tourist Season series

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Right to Roam @righttoroam.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

‼️Breaking: Almost three-quarters of English riverbanks have no right of access. Our new investigation has found that 71% of riverbanks in England have no right of access on either bank. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 25/07/2026

I quite like this album, but my favourite is definitely Daisies of the Galaxy

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HawaiiWorms @hawaiiworms.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Had an absolute blast supporting @linesofsilence.com last night. Thanks to everyone who came down, including @stopfordianneil.bsky.social , @folkpolice.com , @jacklikesfilm.bsky.social , @spiral-tat.bsky.social and @miketyl.bsky.social (if anyone else was lurking let me know!)

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Creature from the Jack Lagoon @jacklikesfilm.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Gig number 23 of 2026 Me and @folkpolice.com are off to see Lines of Silence tonight, supported by our very own @hawaiiworms.bsky.social!

Gig poster for Lines of Silence and Hawaiiworms tonight at the Castle in Manchester

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 20/07/2026

Cheers Fenner! Much appreciated ❤️🙏❤️

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 20/07/2026

Thank you @fennerpearson.bsky.social for including no less than three tracks from The Silent Harvest in the latest Electronic Ears 🙏❤️🙏

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Folk Police Recordings @folkpolice.com · 17/07/2026

Also, I really want to nick the review title “meadow modulations” for a future comp!

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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 · 17/07/2026

LOL - you might have set a challenge there!

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