Nathan Salsburg - Psalms review | Jude Rogers's folk album of the month

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(No Quarter)
The musician’s study of Tehillim texts inspired beautiful melodic responses, teased out into an affecting collection with the help of many US folk friends

Psalms is a part of an ongoing personal project for Nathan Salsburg, a musician and archivist based in the heart of Kentucky. By day, he runs the gargantuan Alan Lomax archive, which hosts the 20th-century folklorist’s free-to-access recordings, transcriptions and films. Outside work, he’s an intuitive, dexterous guitarist with an experimental bent. His two 2020 albums – Landwerk Nos 1 and 2 – were stunning sound collages, moulding decaying drones into samples from 78s, lots of them from klezmer and Yiddish music.