The Maker (NCA)

You love folk music that is carefully built — shaped with intention, structure, and craft. You’re drawn to acoustic work where every element feels considered.

For you, folk is a space where sound, form, and feeling are deliberately brought together to create something that lasts.

Elements of 'The Maker'

Novelty: You're crave new sounds, new structures and new musical experiences. You seek the artists who bend form, instrumentation, harmony and melody to create something that pushes on what came before.

Constructed: You like to hear well-honed craftsmanship expressed through a range of instrumental techniques, intriguing structures and musicians experimenting with their complete palette. You love thinking about the how the music is put together.

Acoustic: You love sounds rooted in analogue realism. You love hearing acoustic sonic texture of breath, wood, gut, skin, voice and floorboards. You thrill at what is possible with breath and hands.

When you close your eyes, you visualise the musicians and space where the music is being made.

(Read more about how we built the Typology here)

Your listening wings are

TCA - The Revivalist - for those who like exploring the traditional songs and tunes as well as contemporary/new songs and material
NCE - The Trickster - for those who are curious about what worlds electronic textures open to musicians