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Faustus: Broken Down Gentlemen [Digipak]

1 CD / Navigator / 2013-04-30

Tracks: Broken Down Gentlemen; American Stranger; Blow the Windy Morning; Prentice Boy; Banks of the Nile; Captain's Apprentice; OG's Eye Man; I Wish, I Wish; Lovely Johnny; Thrashing Machine
Artists: Faustus

The Faustus are three of the leading lights of English folk music of their generation. Broken Down Gentlemen features their trademark powerful delivery, faultless harmonies,...continue...
Personnel: Benji Kirkpatrick (vocals, guitar, bouzouki); Paul Sartin (vocals, fiddle, oboe); Saul Rose (vocals, melodeon).

Audio Mixer: Stu Hanna.

Recording information: Chalkhill Music ...continue...

Jamie Roberts (Guitar)/Katriona Gilmore: The Innocent Left [Digipak]

1 CD / Navigator / 2012-11-13

Tracks: Scarecrow; Doctor James; Shuffle & Deal; Louis Was A Boxer; Letters; Seven Left For Dead; False Knight; Silver Screen; Over Snake Pass; Stealing Arm, The
Artists: Jamie Roberts (Guitar)/Katriona Gilmore

Contemporary folk/acoustic duo Gilmore & Roberts combine award-winning song writing with astounding lap-tapping guitar, fiery fiddle and their trademark harmonies, creating a powerful wall of...continue...
Personnel: Jamie Roberts (vocals, guitar, mandola); Katriona Gilmore (vocals, mandolin, fiddle, viola); Rebecca Lovell (vocals, mandolin); Megan Lovell (lap steel guitar, dobro, background vocals); Gr...continue...

The Young'uns: When Our Grandfathers Said No [Digipak]

1 CD / Navigator / 2012-10-30

Tracks: Another Storm; Chemical Worker's Song, The; Battle Of Stockton, The; Roll Down; Harbour Voice; One December Morn; Love In A Northern Town; Pique la Baleine; Rolling Down To Rio; You Can Close Your Ey...
Artists: The Young'uns

After bursting onto the folk scene three years ago, The Young'uns have fast become one of the most popular, entertaining and sought after live acts...continue...
Recording information: 27th Letter Music, Suffolk, England; HRSFC Studios, Cambridge, England....continue...

Bellowhead: Broadside

1 CD / Navigator / 2012-10-30

Tracks: Byker Hill; Old Dun Cow, The; Roll the Woodpile Down; 10,000 Miles Away; Betsy Baker; Black Beetle Pies; Thousands or More; Dockside Rant, The; Wife of Usher's Well, The; What's the Life of a Man (An...
Artists: Bellowhead

Bellowhead's 2010 album, Hedonism, was the UK's highest-selling independently released traditional folk album of all time. Like Hedonism, Broadside is produced by the great John...continue...
Personnel: Benji Kirkpatrick (vocals, guitar, banjo, bouzouki, mandolin); Rachael Mcshane (vocals, fiddle, cello); Sam Sweeney (vocals, fiddle, pipes); Paul Sartin (vocals, fiddle, oboe); Jon Boden (v...continue...

Sean Lakeman/Kathryn Roberts: Hidden People

CD / Navigator / 2012-07-17

Artists: Sean Lakeman/Kathryn Roberts

Treacherous Orchestra: Origins

1 CD / Navigator / 2012-04-24

Tracks: Overture; March of the Troutsmen; Superfly: Sheepskins Beeswax/Taybank Shenanigans/Superfly; Look East: Wade On the Water/Look East; Prelude; Sea of Clouds: Sea of Clouds/Mare Nubim; Sea of Okhotsk; ...
Artists: Treacherous Orchestra

A product of the recent renaissance in Scottish folk music, Treacherous Orchestra are a new signing to Navigator Records. Already known to many in the...continue...
Personnel: Barry Reid (electric guitar); Eamonn Coyne (tenor guitar, banjo); Adam Sutherland, Innes Watson (fiddle, strings); Kevin O'Neill, Bo Jingham (flute); Ali Hutton, Ross Ainslie (whistle, pipe...continue...

Spiers & Boden: The Works *

1 CD / Navigator / 2012-01-31

Tracks: Tom Padget; Horn Fair; Gooseberry Bush/Laudanum Bunches; Birth of Robin Hood, The; Cheshire Waltz, The; Brown Adam; Rochdale Coconut Dance; Old Maui; Haul Away; Bold Sir Rylas; Prickle-Eye Bush
Artists: Spiers & Boden

Spiers & Boden are workaholic celebrities of the contemporary British folk scene, best-known as founders of folk big-band Bellowhead. The pair began performing & recording...continue...
Audio Mixer: Andy Bell .

Recording information: Cooz's Studio, Oxford (12/2010-??/2011); Panda Studios, Robin Hoods Bay (12/2010-??/2011); Underbank, Sheffield (12/2010-??/2011); Various Sheffi...continue...

Mawkin Causley: The Awkward Recruit [Digipak] *

1 CD / Navigator / 2012-01-31

Tracks: Jolly Broom Man; Homme Armé, L'; Drummer Boy for Waterloo; Keeper of the Game; Cutty Wren; Saucy Sailor, The; Todos Los Bienes Del Mundo; Downfall of Charing Cross, The; Cropper Lads; Greenlande...
Artists: Mawkin Causley

Skillfully uniting the mature beauty of traditional folk music with a contemporary twist provided by Jim Causley's vocals, which effortlessly switch from the solemnity of...continue...
Personnel: Dave Delarre (vocals, guitar); James Delarre (vocals, fiddle); Jim Causley (vocals, accordion); Alex Goldsmith (vocals, melodeon); Danny Crump (vocals).

Audio Mixer: Stu Hanna.
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Rachael Mcshane: No Man's Fool [Digipak]

1 CD / Navigator / 2011-10-25

Tracks: Captain Wood; Highwayman Outwitted, The; Fisherman, The; My Johnny Was A Shoemaker; Maid On The Shore; Drowned Sailor, The; Gardener, The; Broomfield Wager, The; Miles Weatherhill; Shepherd Lad
Artists: Rachael Mcshane

McShane, best known as the cellist, singer, fiddle player (& only female) in 11-piece folk big-band Bellowhead, is now embarking on a solo career with...continue...
Personnel: Rachael Mcshane (vocals, fiddle, cello); Sam Sweeney (fiddle, viola); Tom Oakes (wooden flute, bansuri); Charlotte Jones (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Jamie Toms (a...continue...

Mawkin Causley/Mawkin: Cold Ruin [EP]

1 CD / Navigator / 2011-09-27

Tracks: Georges Son; Botany Bay; Marinera; Come My Lads; Cookie Monster; New York Trader
Artists: Mawkin Causley/Mawkin

Indie music fans are in for a special treat with this re-release of Mawkin:Causley's 2008 album. The band, which suffered the loss of key members...continue...

Boo Hewerdine: Toy Box No.1 [EP] [Digipak]

1 CD / Navigator / 2011-09-27

Tracks: Koh-I-Noor; Ellis Island Blues; Dragonflies; Taxi Dancer; Bible Pages; Sunset
Artists: Boo Hewerdine

English singer-songwriter, as well as the creative force behind indie band, The Bible, Boo Hewerdine is re-releasing his 2008 mini-album, Toy Box No. 1. The...continue...
This short EP from Hewerdine is a bit of a teaser. Stripped down -- he plays everything (essentially just guitar) and sings on some new songs -- it's a disc that highlights his strengths and weaknesse...continue...

Mary Hampton: My Mother's Children [Digipak]

1 CD / Navigator / 2011-09-27

Tracks: Because You're Young; Free Grace; Honey; Concerning a Frozen Sparrow; Ballad of the Talking Dog; Pygmalion; Meanwhile...; Bell They Gave You, The; Island; Exeunt
Artists: Mary Hampton

It is an unmatched joy to discover a collection of songs that sits proudly and uncomplicatedly within the folk tradition - such is the emotion...continue...
Personnel: Mary Hampton (vocals, guitar, tenor guitar, piano, Wurlitzer organ); Jo Burke (vocals, fiddle); Alice Eldridge (vocals, cello, double bass); Lawry Tilbury, Julia Indelicate (vocals, whistle...continue...

Bellowhead: Matachin

1 CD / Navigator / 2011-09-27

Tracks: Fakenham Fair; Roll Her Down the Bay; Vignette I; I Drew My Ship Across the Harbour; Kafoozalum/The Priest's Miss; Cholera Camp; Vignette II; Whiskey is the Life of Man; Spectre Review; Widow's Curse...
Artists: Bellowhead

This is a magnificently murky and rumsodden collection of 11 traditional and original songs from an 11 piece band who defy easy categorization. Not many...continue...
Personnel: Jon Boden (vocals, fiddle); Benji Kirkpatrick (guitar, banjo, bouzouki, mandolin); Rachael Mcshane (fiddle, cello); Sam Sweeney (fiddle, pipes); Paul Sartin (fiddle, oboe); John Spiers (con...continue...

Sandy Wright: The Songs of Sandy Wright [Slipcase]

2 CD / Navigator / 2011-08-30

Tracks: This Old House; Beads and Feathers; My Shining Star; Whisky Moon; Hotel Caledonia; Happy Pills; 53rd State of America; Whores and Bitches; Alligator Handbags; Wonder of the World, The; In the Summert...
Artists: Sandy Wright

Navigator Records welcomes Sandy Wright, a longtime underground hero in his native Edinburgh, and last year nominated as Composer of The Year at the Scot's...continue...
Personnel: Sandy Wright (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, accordion, harmonium, background vocals); Sarah McFadyen (vocals, banjo, fiddle, background vocals); Joey Sanderson (vocals, harmoniu...continue...

Benji Kirkpatrick: Boomerang

1 CD / Navigator / 2011-08-30

Tracks: Wallbreaker; More Life; Flyover; Moon Struck One, The; Boomerang; Willow Weeps; River Maid, The; Rocky Brown; People; Drift
Artists: Benji Kirkpatrick

Benji Kirkpatrick is a gifted guitar player and an engaging and experienced performer. Over the past decade that he has been working on the UK...continue...
Personnel: Benji Kirkpatrick (vocals, guitar, banjo, bouzouki, percussion); Sue Harris (vocals, hammer dulcimer); Stu Hanna (vocals, violin, percussion); Seth Lakeman (vocals, violin); Debbie Palmer (...continue...

The Angel Brothers: Angel Brothers [Digipak]

1 CD / Navigator / 2011-08-30

Tracks: Tongues of Fire; Ghosts; Django's Caravan; Shifting Sands; Same Sky, Different Planet; Goldbricking; Stepping On Shadows; Empty Chair; Butlin's Lederhosen Fancy
Artists: The Angel Brothers

There can't be many bands who can lay claim to have cornered the market in cinematic roots funk, but the Angel Brothers can. Their first...continue...
Personnel: Mick Humphrey, Jayne Cooper, Richard Masters, Sandhya Sanjana (vocals); Dave Angel (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin); Nick Wyke (fiddle, viola, cello); Becki Driscoll (fiddle); A...continue...

Inge Thomson/Inge Thompson: Shipwrecks and Static

1 CD / Navigator / 2011-08-30

Tracks: John; Cycle; Fighting Song; Cradle Song; Tin Man; Where Do I Sign; Scoundrel Clouds; Take My Time; Girl with the Swan's Head; Marie Celeste; How Far; Norseman's Bride
Artists: Inge Thomson/Inge Thompson

Inge's first solo venture, SHIPWRECKS & STATIC is an eccentric marriage between melodic instruments and the bleeps and squeaks of electronic tomfoolery. Inge wrote, recorded...continue...
Personnel: Inge Thomson (mandolin, flute, whistle, Wurlitzer piano, Wurlitzer organ, percussion, programming); Tom Cook (vocals, guitars, banjo, cello, glockenspiel, programming); Heidi Talbot, Rory C...continue...

Spiers & Boden: Vagabond

1 CD / Navigator / 2011-07-26

Artists: Spiers & Boden

This English folk duo are John Spiers (melodeon/concertina) and Jon Boden (fiddle/guitar). This re-release of their 2008 album, Vegabond, is being made available in anticipation...continue...
For their fifth outing together, Spiers and Boden don't do anything radically different from what they've done before -- they just do it better, with more refinement, and panache added from time spent...continue...

Lucy Ward: Adelphi Has to Fly

1 CD / Navigator / 2011-07-26

Artists: Lucy Ward

21 year old singer-songwriter from Derb, Lucy Ward performs an eclectic mix of traditional and modern folk interpretations, interspersed with her own songs. The natural...continue...
Faced with a choice between starting university and focusing full-time on music, the young Lucy Ward took a gamble and chose the latter path, going into the studio with producer and multi-instrumental...continue...

James Fagan/Nancy Kerr: Twice Reflected Sun

1 CD / Navigator / 2011-07-26

Artists: James Fagan/Nancy Kerr

"Twice Reflected Sun forms a significant departure from previous releases in that instead of presenting a mix of traditional and contemporary writing, songs and tunes...continue...

Chris Wood (Fiddle): Albion

2 CD / Navigator / 2011-07-26

Artists: Chris Wood (Fiddle)

"With its crashing beats and Indian influence Cold Haily Rainy Night from Simon Emmerson's Imagined Village project shows how folk can be updated while staying...continue...

Faustus: Faustus *

1 CD / Navigator / 2011-07-26

Tracks: Brisk Lad; Hotesses Daughter, The; Ballina Whalers; Next Stop: Grimsby/The Three Rascals/Aunt Crisps; New Deserter, The; Old Miser, The; Green Willow Tree, The; Will the Weaver; Acre of Land; Temperl...
Artists: Faustus

Comprised of three of the most pivotal players in the English roots revival of the past decade, Faustus boast a trio of travelling minstrels whose...continue...
Faustus might be new to recording, but the trio themselves are hardly strangers to folk music, working with Bellowhead, Waterson: Carthy, and sundry others. Boasting melodeons, guitar, bouzouki, oboe,...continue...

Alyth: People Like Me

1 CD / Navigator / 2011-06-28

Tracks: Nuair Bha Mi Og; Queen and the Soldier, The; Vices Set, The (Puirt Set); Beautiful Lie, The; Dh'Fhàg E Gun Chadal Am Dhúsgadh Mi; Neptune; A Mhairead Og, A; Till Morning Will Come; Chaidil ...
Artists: Alyth

2009 release from one of the most exciting singers on the Celtic scene. Her vocal talent and her understanding approach give her an ability to...continue...
Recording information: Park Lane Studios, Glasgow; The Cauldron, Dublin.

Photographer: Craig MacKay.

A veteran of the music and acting business, this isn't Alyth's first album, but it mi...continue...

Kris Drever/John McCusker/Roddy Woomble: Before the Ruin

1 CD / Navigator / 2011-06-28

Tracks: Silver and Gold; Into the Blue; All Along the Way; Before the Ruin; Hope to See; Rest On the Rock; Out of Light; Poorest Company, The; Moments Last Forever; Stuck in Time
Artists: Kris Drever/John McCusker/Roddy Woomble

BEFORE THE RUIN is the result the collaboration of three of Scotland's best current writers and performers, Roddy Woomble (best known as the lead singer...continue...
Personnel: John McCusker (tenor guitar, cittern, fiddle); Kris Drever (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Roddy Woomble (vocals).

Audio Mixer: Andy Seward.

Recording information:...continue...

Bellowhead: Hedonism *

1 CD / Navigator / 2011-06-28

Tracks: New York Girls; A-Begging I Will Go; Cross-Eyed and Chinless; Broomfield Hill; Hand Weaver and the Factory Maid, The; Captain Wedderburn; Amsterdam; Cold Blows the Wind; Parson's Farewell; Little Sal...
Artists: Bellowhead

"They take outrageous but enthralling liberties with some of folk's hardy veterans... they sweep it all before them into a heady mix of great tunes,...continue...
Personnel: Jon Boden (vocals, fiddle); Benji Kirkpatrick (guitar, bouzouki, mandolin); Rachael Mcshane (fiddle, cello); Sam Sweeney (fiddle, pipes); Paul Sartin (fiddle, oboe); John Spiers (concertina...continue...

Bella Hardy: Songs Lost & Stolen [Digipak]

1 CD / Navigator / 2011-06-28

Tracks: Labyrinth; Flowers of May; Walk It with You; Bridge of Dean; Herring Girl, The; Full Moon Over Amsterdam; Written in Green; Jenny Wren; Promises; Rosabel; Good Friday; Broken Mirror
Artists: Bella Hardy

"More Than a new generation folk revivalist...her potential is massive." - FROOTS SONGS LOST & STOLEN is the third album from acclaimed Derbyshire singer Bella...continue...
Personnel: Bella Hardy (vocals, fiddle); Kris Drever (vocals, guitar, slide guitar); Anna Massie (guitar, banjo, mandolin, background vocals); Corrina Hewat (harp, background vocals); Patsy Reid (fidd...continue...

Heidi Talbot: The Last Star *

CD / Navigator / 2010-10-12

Tracks: Willie Taylor; Tell Me Truly; Hang Me; Shepherd Lad, The; Last Star, The; Sally Brown; Bantry Girls; Bleecker Street; Start It All Over Again; Cherokee Rose; At The End Of The Day
Artists: Heidi Talbot

Personnel: Heidi Talbot (baritone ukulele); Ian Carr (acoustic guitar); John McCusker (cittern, fiddle); Michael McGoldrick (flute, whistle, Uilleann pipe); Neil Yates (brass); Ewen Vernal (piano, dou...continue...

Kris Drever: Mark the Hard Earth *

CD / Navigator / 2010-03-09

Tracks: Mark the Hard Earth; This Old Song; Shining Star; Allegory; Wild Hurricane; Sweet Honey in the Rock; O' A' the Airts; Call and the Answer, The; Crown of London, The; Banks of the Nile, The; Freedom C...
Artists: Kris Drever

Audio Mixer: Andy Seward.

Arranger: Drever.

For someone who's done so much work, it seems surprising that this is just Kris Drever's second solo album. It's been four years since the fir...continue...