Jane Weaver’s experience as a truly independent and resilient female experimental songwriter/sound-carrier commands respect and inspiration in equal measures. From teenage Liverpudlian shoe-gazer to conceptual-pop mistress, has seen her graze with pocket-punk, Synth-pop, acid folk, dark-ambient drones, Hollywood soundtracks and girl-group psych.
Islet are remote Welsh outsiders, a Powys trio whose free-spirited invention and exuberant intensity flows through experimental pop: hypnotic, exhilarating and defiantly unique. Their sophomore album ‘Eyelet’ was released in 2020.
Brooklyn-based composer and musical artist Faten Kanaan builds songs by live-looping them, without the use of samplers, sequencers, or arpeggiators. Cyclical patterns are central to her work, with the exploration of harmony and counterpoint as narrative tools. Sound & silence are used as intuitive gestures to tell a wordless story.
Brigid Mae Power’s songs are like an overheard lament, a scrubbed clean yarn with plenty unravelling in the process. New country and traditional folk rub shoulders, making for a juxtaposition of threads that provides larger dynamics and a space for Brigid’s distinctive vocal style to spread itself across.