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James Howard — Power Ballads and The Wash

Power Ballads and The Wash

FAI039 • contemporary / Singer Songwriter

Album Release: 19th November 2026 (Digital) / 6th November 2026 (Vinyl)

Tracklist

  1. Seven Seconds
  2. Power Ballads
  3. Low Winter Sun
  4. The Ancient Wisdom
  5. The Moon In The Movies
  6. Mm Mm Mm
  7. Thames Clipper
  8. Version Song

Power Ballads and The Wash is the sophomore album from London-based multi-instrumentalist James Howard, due for release on 6th November 2026 via boutique label Faith & Industry. James is known as founder of critically acclaimed 2010’s band Blue House and collaborator with luminaries such as Rozi Plain, Dana Gavanski, Kate Bollinger and Alabaster Deplume. For Power Ballads and The Wash James has worked with producer Mike Lindsay, co-founder of folktronica group Tunng. Power Ballads and The Wash follows James's debut solo album Peek-A-Boo, released to great acclaim in April 2023.

All eight songs of Power Ballads and The Wash began life as intimate live takes of guitar or piano and voice, recorded at Howard’s studio in Deptford, south London. Steeped in the energy of the local environment each session was preceded by a visit to the Thames to ask for its muddy blessing, with the DLR rumbling by. The sessions at Lindsay’s Margate studio built a widescreen world around Howard’s original performances.

Beneath this gentle absurdity lies something quietly powerful. Howard’s song-writing explores the notion that, despite our ever-shortening attention spans, there is still the possibility of quiet reflection and the discovery of revelations hidden in plain sight.

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Ġiżimina — Id-Dlam Id-Dawl

Id-Dlam Id-Dawl

FAI038 • Experimental Folk

Album Release: 30th July 2026 (Digital) / 25th September 2026 (Vinyl)

Tracklist

  1. Il-Mamà
  2. Il-Babaw
  3. Il-Baħħ
  4. Il-Ħolma (feat. David Chircop)
  5. Il-Wegħda
  6. Il-Milja Tal-Ħajja (feat. Mario Pace)
  7. Il-Qamar

Yasmin Kuymizakis aka JOON (Italians Do It Better) is Ġiżimina. Working across performance and sound installation with Maltese folk music, cultural memory, and reinterpretation. Id-Dlam Id-Dawl (The Darkness The Light) is a seven-track album built from archive folk guitar recordings, reworking sampled fragments of Maltese musical memory into something intimate and personal.

Faith And Industry has always had an ear for outer folk experimentation and here we present the first release in Maltese language. Uniquely the only Semitic language written in Latin script, evolved from Siculo-Arabic and spoken by around 570,000 people across the diasporic communities.

The guitar recordings were captured on cassette tape between 1980-90 in bars and garages where the music was performed. Ġiżimina embarked on the making of this collection following a live show with filmmaker and sound collector Vincent Moon in 2025.

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Cavallini/Nada — Continuum

Continuum

FAI037 • Ambient / Electronic / Experimental

Album Release: 5th June 2025

Singles: Continuum Pt 1 (12th May) • Continuum Pt 4 (27th May)

Tracklist

  1. Continuum Pt 1
  2. Continuum Pt 2
  3. Continuum Pt 3
  4. Continuum Pt 4
  5. Continuum Pt 5

Continuum is the debut album from sound healer Giulia Cavallini and electronic producer Karlos Nada. It is the sound of two friends who have spent years listening deeply, both to music and to one another, finally deciding to make something together.

Giulia Cavallini works at the intersection of sound, the body, and presence. Karlos Nada is an electronic producer with a restless curiosity and a highly developed ear for space and texture. The album also features the flute of Jin Theriault.

Continuum is designed to be heard in one uninterrupted sitting, as a continuous movement rather than a collection of individual pieces.

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