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'There’s No Song About a Stone' is my first 'non-debut album', recorded and produced by me at home. I call it a 'non-debut album' because I have long been making music in different forms, from death metal to alternative folk, so it feels strange calling it a 'debut album'. It is the product of years of songwriting and performing solo as Bity Booker.
I do take my time making things in a way that makes me happy, out of the commercial sphere and outside of norms and rules. I like to think of my creations as something organically formed and shaped by time, dreams, thoughts, rain and wind. These tape recordings feel very much alive, in the background you can hear sounds of birds, people, the sounds of London, all of which were in the room with me while recording. This album includes some of my favourite songs, some of which you may have already heard at my gigs and some never heard before. It is my favourite thing that I have ever made so far, I hope you will love it. Bity x
Like the sound of raindrops that ripple in a secret valley is the haunting pure voice and fingerpicked guitar of 'There’s No Song About a Stone', the first LP from alt-folk musician Bity Booker.
Recorded at home on her four track tape machine, over the course of three years between London and Thanet, this is an album that takes you to a special intimate place where there’s time and space to look inside yourself.
This is music out-of-time, charming and romantic, with songs that paint vivid imagery of pastel landscapes, dark forests, a far green valley and spring’s returning swallows, an obsessive mindful garden, folk inspired tales of love and loss, urban legends, the edgy and absurd tale of a wedding in an outback town, all creating a cinematic experience warmly familiar yet charmingly unknown.
A further touch of DIY liminal magic is Bity’s hand-drawn artwork, shining in all its glory on the LP with a marbled blue limited edition vinyl.
'There’s No Song About a Stone' is a unique and beautiful album, sounding like it just stepped out of a myth but rooted and earthy, as if the songs were magically played from a lone stone in a blissful meadow.
So here then we find, among these songs of birds, lost towns and tears, finally an answer to the eternal question: is there or isn’t there a song about a stone? (Marianella Pianto, 2026)
RELEASE INFO
ALBUM TITLE: There’s No Song About a Stone
RELEASE DATE: Friday 5 June 2026
PRE-ORDER: https://bitybooker.bandcamp.com/album/there-s-no-song-about-a-stone
PRE-SAVE LINK:
https://emubands.ffm.to/theresnosongaboutastone
INVENTORY: FF013
FORMAT: Digital on all streaming platforms and Bandcamp, Limited Edition blue marbled 12-inch vinyl (250 copies) and CD (both available on Bandcamp)
ARTWORK: Illustration by Bity Booker
ALBUM LAUNCH:
Thursday 4 June at Green Note in Camden
CONTACT: bitybookermusic@gmail.com
ALBUM CREDITS
All songs written and performed by Bity Booker with classical guitar and voice.
Recorded and produced by Bity on her 4 track cassette tape machine at home between South London and Thanet.
Some sounds on 'Lost Town' and some overdubs recorded by Bity and Tom Hill at The Bookhouse Studio in London.
Mixed and mastered by Ian Carter (Stick in the Wheel) in North London in 2026.
Artwork illustration by Bity Booker.
BIOGRAPHY
Bity Booker is an alternative folk musician and visual artist based in Thanet and London. She is a lover of nature, animals and folklore, she writes and sings gorgeous, wistful songs channeling a lyrical folk tradition. Bity doesn’t just perform songs, she casts them. Armed with classical guitar, a voice that sounds like it stepped out of a myth, and lyrics full of animals, dreams, ghosts, and forest whispers, Bity crafts a world that’s both familiar and entirely her own.
UPCOMING GIGS
27 April - Folk in the Cellar London
16 May - Candlelight Sessions Gosport
19 May - Green Door Store Brighton (supporting Charlie Parr)
4 June - Green Note London (Album Launch Gig!)
7 June - The Peer Hat Manchester
13 June - Oasthouse Sessions Rainham Kent
14 June - Bluebell Roots Arlington Sussex
27 June - Larry’s Corner Stockholm Sweden
28 June - Mariki Gothenburg Sweden
19 July - Colindale & Barnet Folk Club London
℗ & © Bity Booker 2026, All rights reserved.
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