Glitterbeat Records

22/08/2025

“It’s a simple, raw and emotionally direct sound, with similarities to another hill farm folk music – bluegrass … when [the additional strings] soar with the duo’s tight harmonies they add an extra layer of emotional resonance that’s hard to resist.” ★★★★
- New Internationalist // The Good Ones - Rwanda Sings With Strings
*OUT NEXT FRIDAY*

21/08/2025

We’re thrilled to share the news that Noura Mint Seymali - one of Mauritania’s most powerful and visionary voices - will receive the WOMEX 25 Artist Award! 🏆

Her albums Tzenni (2014) and Arbina (2016) earned universal acclaim, and we’re thrilled that Glitterbeat Records will also release her upcoming album, Yenbett, this November - bringing a powerful new wave of Moorish desert psych and reimagined griot traditions.

Congratulations, Noura! So well deserved. 🙌

20/08/2025

“Alternating between Welsh-language songs and instrumental pieces, Hafana essays a bold mix of folk tradition and auteur experimentalism ... With an angelic voice [...] that boasts the same beguiling simplicity as Vashti Bunyan, one might imagine the entire album as a Cymraeg companion to Just Another Diamond Day.”
- Uncut Magazine // Cerys Hafana - Angel

19/08/2025

"Moving between instrumental and vocal cuts, Hafana builds hugely powerful swells of feeling and atmosphere, with their virtuosity on both harp and piano allowing a push beyond avant folk toward darkling, rain-washed minimalism and sharp-eyed jazznot-jazz. Don't sleep.”
- The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music // Cerys Hafana - Angel

12/08/2025

The new Etceteral album has a stunning **** review in the latest issue of MOJO.

"There's no let-up on this forward-thinking Slovenian trio's third outing...polyrhythmic futurist jazz of the highest order."

"Kimatika" is out on September 5th!

11/08/2025

Noura Mint Seymali is back and she has a full-page article in MOJO this month! Her spectacular new album "Guereh" is out on November 7th.

07/08/2025

Brìghde Chaimbeul has just announced her complete autumn tour in support of her highly acclaimed new album "Sunwise." The tour will take her throughout the UK, Europe and America.
Venues and ticket links here: https://www.brichaimbeul.com/tickets

06/08/2025

A wonderful review of Cerys Hafana's upcoming album in the latest The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music.

"...It's raw, urgent and affecting music, and it sets the tone for a hugely assured album that feels like a major arrival. Moving between instrumental and vocal cuts, Hafana builds hugely powerful swells of feeling and atmosphere, with their virtuosity on both harp and piano allowing a push beyond avant folk toward darkling, rain-washed minimalism and sharp-eyed jazznot-jazz. Don't sleep.”

04/08/2025

Cerys Hafana's gorgeous new album "Angel" is out next month. The first single is already available for streaming. KLOF Mag calls them "one of the UK's most exciting and genre-defying contemporary folk artists" and writes that the lead single, "'Helynt Ryfeddol,' exemplifies the album’s unique sonic palette. Its driving, repetitive rhythms draw inspiration from contemporary Breton folk music, while Hafana’s spellbinding vocals and intricate harp work remain at the forefront."

Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC_241YZi_Q

Welsh composer Cerys Hafana pushes boundaries on their new album, Angel. Experience their innovative triple harp playing and the atmospheric first single, “Helynt Ryfeddol.”

01/08/2025

A wonderful in-depth article in The New Yorker about Brìghde Chaimbeul's musical journey. Well worth a read!

"It might be easy to call Chaimbeul’s melting drones futuristic, but there’s something ancient about their primacy, which reaches back beyond the conventions, mostly established in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that have determined what counts as tradition. People tend to say that Chaimbeul’s music collapses any sense of what is either orthodox or experimental. 'The drone is the first sound,' as the composer La Monte Young wrote, in 1964. 'It lasts forever and cannot have begun, but is taken up again from time to time.'"

Brìghde Chaimbeul frees her instrument from the confines of kitsch.