Far from Nowhere is Josienne Clarke’s sixth album. She started in 2019 with In All Weather and her last album was 2024’s Parenthesis, I. Far from Nowhere was recorded in a week in a cabin in the remote Scottish Highlands using just a few instruments and analogue recording equipment. Murray Collier aided and abetted the process as co-producer. Clarke says that the record is a “defiant response to the logistical and emotional tolls of trying to eke out a living in the music industry”. She continues, “The structure of the industry slowly suffocates the spirit of artists, starving them of the self-esteem that comes from remuneration for a job well done, so retreating to a cabin in the woods to make my album made sense”.
Clarke is a folk artist, although her 2021…