18 luglio 2026

Quasi sessant'anni di registrazioni in studio e dal vivo per la BBC, dal 1965 al 2022, per la maggior parte da solo ma anche con Albion Country Band, Steeleye Span, Watersons e Brass Monkey, in duo con Chris Wood, con la figlia Eliza, con l'inseparabile Dave Swarbrick. Un lungo percorso alternativo rispetto alla già ricca e importante discografia ufficiale di Martin Carthy, documentato da Colin Harper in una lussuosa produzione Madfish che comprende 20 cd, un corposo volume biografico e fotografico, vari saggi critici e cronologia completa: Along The Road Forever.

A major new archival release celebrates the extraordinary career of one of the most influential figures in English folk music, Martin Carthy, with Along The Road Forever: Live At The BBC - an expansive collection documenting live and session performances recorded for the BBC across an astonishing 57-year period from 1965-2022. Across 22½ hours of music and 328 tracks - including 237 unique repertoire performances, with two-thirds sourced from master recordings - Along The Road Forever captures Martin’s enduring relationship with the BBC through appearances on Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4, BBC Television, and even rare surviving performances from 1960s regional broadcaster ABC TV. The collection also includes an 80-page hardback book featuring a major new essay by acclaimed biographer Clinton Heylin examining Martin Carthy’s complete life in music, alongside unseen photographs - many drawn from Martin’s personal archive - detailed session notes by noted Carthy chronicler Kevin Boyd, and an exclusive photograph personally signed by Martin Carthy.

https://madfishmusic.com/artists/martincarthy

17 luglio 2026

Altra rassegna documentata in Roulette Intermedium è quella ideata da Carlos Giffoni con il titolo No Fun Fest, interrotta dopo l'edizione svedese del 2009 e ripresa a inizio luglio con tre giorni di concerti al Roulette di Brooklyn, NY: "For the first time since 2009, the legendary No Fun Fest returns to New York with a three-day fest titled No Fun New Perspectives, focusing on improvised music and featuring a dream-like lineup of avant-garde musicians from different generations, with every presentation during the festival a world premiere that will push experimental music to new and unknown places. No Fun Fest was celebrated as a pivotal event in Experimental Music and Noise during its original run in New York City from 2004 to 2009, and a second edition in Sweden in 2009."

https://roulette.org/event/no-fun-new-perspectives-night-1
https://roulette.org/event/no-fun-new-perspectives-night-2
https://roulette.org/event/no-fun-new-perspectives-night-3

16 luglio 2026


Oltre settanta concerti in quattro giorni tra la fine aprile e i primi di maggio in una dozzina di sedi diverse a Brooklyn, New York: così è stato per la sua quinta edizione Long Play, festival ideato e diretto da Michael Gordon, David Lang e Julia Wolfe dei Bang On A Can. Che così lo avevano anticipato: "What we do at Bang on a Can, this time of year, is astral project ourselves into the sunny, warm, life-affirming month of May. April 30th to May 3rd, to be exact. We conjure up an image of ourselves, in short sleeves, strolling through beautiful, bustling, downtown Brooklyn, surrounded by enthusiastic throngs of joyous music lovers, people we already know and people we are about to know, people who represent a community brought together by their shared love of wild music, in all of its forms. Dreaming about Bang on a Can’s Long Play festival always gets us through." 

Roulette Intermedium ha da poco resi disponibili su YT i video dei concerti tenuti appunto al Roulette: ci sono tra gli altri Trevor Dunn con il Trio-Convulsant, Secret Chiefs 3, il quartetto di Billy Hart, Michael Brook con Cobalt Blue, Mystery Sonatas di David Lang e Anthracite Fields di Julia Wolfe, una ripresa del celebre Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet di Gavin Bryars e il classico Three Voices di Morton Feldman interpretato da Charlotte Mundy.