DELPHINE DORA

Delphine Dora is a versatile and iconoclast musician, improvising mostly with voice and piano. Apart the piano, her main instrument, she plays also harmonium, organ, harpsichord, keyboard, melodica and violin. Since 2005, she has issued a large number of recordings in broad stylistic character.

Recently, she released a concept album featuring songs inspired by fictional characters such as Beckett's Molloy and Zelda Fitzgerald, a Sylvia Plath poems setting to songs (Conversation Among The Ruins), a piano solo record (A Stream Of Consciousness), a set of jazz related improvisations recorded with double bassist Bruno Duplant and clarinetist Paulo Chagas (Onion Petals as Candle Light) and she co-directed a project of improvised songs performed by children (Les Loustics - Les Squelettes).



Besides her solo work, she has collaborated with musicians such as Half Asleep, Salvatore Borrelli, Bruno Duplant, Paulo Chagas, Aine O’Dwyer, Eloise Decazes (Arlt), has shared a stage with Lau Nau, James Blackshaw, Baby Dee, Liam Singer, Wounded Knee, Progressive Patriot, and is the founder of the Wild Silence label.

"Instant Classic ! I have no idea what language Dora is singing in – it might be french or it might be not a language – but listen to the expression and you know exactly what she is saying. It’s like listening to 19th century-german lieder, except easier to enjoy. Not because the longest track is 2:55. Probably because she is writing for her own voice, and manipulates it effortlessly like a wizard – the best kind of vocalist. The piano is restrained – mostly playing a traditional harmonic rôle to support the voice – allowing the voice a landscape in which to emote all over you. The songs are short, as they have captured a moment." - Julia Holter - L.A Magazine

www.delphinedora.com
www.soundcloud.com/delphinedora


ÁINE O'DWYER

Hailing from Ireland , but resident in London , Áine O'Dwyer is an instrumentalist and singer, a long time member of the Irish free folk collective United Bible studies and collaborator of numerous musical projects including The Cloisters, Mark Fry and the A-Lords.

Effectively the follow-up to her 2011 album of improvised organ etudes, Music for Church Cleaners the vivid, aptly titled Anything bright or startling? was released on the Second Language label this year and is Áine’s first album with vocals. Her mesmeric, crystalline, often acrobatic voice and dreamlike poetic lyrics punctuate the album’s four lengthy, serpentine song suites of harp playing, piano, pipe organ, glockenspiel and tin whistle.

"'Anything bright or startling?' is her first vocal release, and reveals her as a hypnotic performer, unafraid to incorporate something of her Irish origins into the melodies and the oiled grain of her voice." - Rob Young, THE WIRE

www.secondlanguagemusic.com/SL022.html
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SOPHIE COOPER

Sophie Cooper is a West Yorkshire based musician whose main interest is in experimenting with conventional song writing. Cooper's music is written to reflect her life and more often than not is inspired by the people around her. The songs have a dreamlike quality, with sounds and vocals drifting in and out of clarity.

Cooper has been making music since her early teens and has been in a string of acts including Cooper Jones and Leopard Leg. This past year has seen her release two albums on the Exotic Pylon and Tor Press labels.

“a wonderful British musician who plays lightly deranged guitar and/or keys while singing like she sees bats everywhere” - Bryon Coley, The Wire

www.sophiecoopermusic.com
soundcloud.com/sophie-cooper