The 50 favourites from more than 350 new CD releases that made it through selection for Podwireless play in 2023.
Scroll down for the Best Of 2023 Podcast Playlist and Playlink.
BEST NEW CDs OF 2023
1. SHIRLEY COLLINS
Archangel Hill (Domino)
2. ORIANE LACAILLE: iViV (Ignatub)
3 . NICK HART & TOM MOORE: The Colour Of Amber (Slow Worm)
4. HACK POETS GUILD: Blackletter Garland (One Little Independent)
5. YOU ARE WOLF: hare // hunter // moth // ghost (You Are Wolf)
6. HIRAM SALSANO: Bucolica (Hiram Salsano)
7. JIM MORAY: Beflean – An Alternative History 2002-2023 (Managed Decline)
8. LIZ HANKS: Land (Hudson)
9. LISA O'NEILL: All This Is Chance (Rough Trade)
10. TAMSIN ELLIOTT & TAREK ELAZHARY: So Far We Have Come (Penny Fiddle)
BEST COMPILATION, RE-ISSUE OR HISTORIC CDs
SUPER BITON DE SEGOU
Afro.Jazz.Folk Collection Vol.2 (Mieruba)
2. VARIOUS ARTISTS: Lost In Tajikistan (Riverboat)
3. VARIOUS ARTISTS: Ears Of The People: Ekonting Songs From Senegal & The Gambia (Smithsonian Folkways)
4. ANITA CARTER: Blue Doll (Jasmine)
The Rest Of The Best CDs (alphabetically)
ALISTAIR ANDERSON: Hethpool Linn (White Meadow)
BLYTH POWER: The Power Behind The Throne (Downwarde Spiral)
BROWN BOOTS: Striding Out (Brown Boots)
BRIGHDE CHAIMBEUL: Carry Them With Us (tak:til)
CINDER WELL: Cadence (Free Dirt)
DENGUE FEVER: Ting Mong (Tuk Tuk)
DIEUF-DIEUL DE THIÈS: Dieuf-Dieul De Thiès (Buda)
ECCODEK: Mistake Of The Ear (Six Degrees)
ELEVEN MAGPIES: Two For Joy (Eleven Magpies)
LUCY FARRELL: We Are Only Sound (Hudson)
CATRIN FINCH & AOIFE NI BHRIAIN: Double You (Bendigedig)
JOHN FRANCIS FLYNN: Look Over The Wall, See The Sky (River Lea)
THE FURROW COLLECTIVE: We Know By The Moon (Hudson)
JIM GHEDI & TOBY HAY: Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay (Topic)
GAO HONG & KADIALY KOUYATE: Terri Kunda (ARC)
THE ROSIE HOOD BAND: A Seed Of Gold (Little Red Recordings)
KELLY HUNT: Ozark Symphony (Compass)
KAYHAN KALHOR & TOUMANI DIABATÉ: The Sky Is The Same Colour Everywhere (Real World)
KARKUM PROJECT: Sahira (Karkum Project)
AGA KHAN MASTER MUSICIANS: Nowruz (Smithsonian Folkways)
LANKUM: False Lankum (Rough Trade)
LEVERET: Forms (Leveret)
BEN McELROY: Beacons Of The Wilderness (Ben McElroy)
ME LOST ME: RPG (Up-set The Rhythm)
MOKOOMBA: Tracings In The Sand (Out Here)
POLOBI & THE GO KWA MASTERS: Abri Cyclonique (Real World)
JACK RUTTER: This Is Something Constant (Jack Rutter)
SALT HOUSE: Riverwoods (Hudson)
GEORGIA SHACKLETON: Harry's Seagull (Georgia Shackleton)
MARTIN SIMPSON & THOMM JUTZ: Nothing But Green Willow (Topic)
SYRIANA: 1325 Ibn Battutah (Grand Duc/ Real World)
THIS IS THE KIT: Careful Of Your Keeper (Rough Trade)
KATHRYN TICKELL & THE DARKENING: Cloud Horizons (Resilient)
ALI FARKA TOURÉ: Voyageur (World Circuit)
BEN WALKER: Banish Air From Air (Folk Room)
JON WILKS: Before I Knew What Had Begun I Had Already Lost (Jon Wilks)
plus… 6 download or vinyl-only releases, mentioned in despatches
1. SPELL SONGS: Gifts Of Light (Hudson)
2. LAKIKO: What To Do, How To Live (Lakiko)
3. ELIZA CARTHY TRIO: Conversations We've Had Before (Eliza Carthy)
4. LEON KEÏTA: Leon Keïta (Analog Africa)
5. MIKEY KENNEY: Northwestern English Fiddle (Mikey Kenney)
6. CHARLOTTE GREIG: Night Visiting Songs (Charlotte Greig/ Bandcamp)
PLAY LINK: PODWIRELESS BEST OF 2023
(This playlink is to Mixcloud streaming: you can also download the podcasts from Podomatic )
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1. Super Biton De Segou : Farafina from the CD Afro.Jazz.Folk Collection Vol 2 (Mieruba) Bandcamp
2. Samandar : Ay Gulak from the CD Lost In Tajikistan (Riverboat) Website
3. Shirley Collins : Lost In A Wood from the CD Archangel Hill (Domino) Bandcamp
4. Oriane Lacaille : Li Bat [feat. Piers Faccin] from the CD iViV (Ignatub) Bandcamp
5. Nick Hart & Tom Moore : Babylon from the CD The Colour Of Amber (Slow Worm) Bandcamp
6. Hack-Poets Guild : Something To Love Me from the CD Blackletter Garland (One Little Independent) Bandcamp
7. You Are Wolf : Reynardine from the CD hare // hunter // moth // ghost (Firecrest) Bandcamp
8. Esukolaal : Koriye from the Various Artists CD Ears Of The People: Ekonting Songs From Senegal & Gambia (Smithsonian Folkways) Website
9. Anita Carter : Right Way, Wrong Way from the CD Blue Doll (Jasmine) Website
10. Hiram Salsano : Angiolina from the CD Bucolica (Hiram Salsano) Bandcamp
11. Jim Moray : Fair Margaret And Sweet William from the CD Beflean – An Alternative History 2002-2023 (Managed Decline) Bandcamp
12. Liz Hanks : Hide (Measurement Of Land Needed To Sustain A Family) from the CD Land (Hudson) Bandcamp
13. Lisa O'Neill : Birdy From Another Realm from the CD All Of This Is Chance (Rough Trade) Website
14. Tamsin Elliott & Tarek Elazhary : Telaet Ya Mahla Norha // Mundesse from the CD So Far We Have Come (Penny Fiddle) Bandcamp
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