Brooklyn-by-Belgium vocalist CHARLOTTE JACOBS transposes her world into music. Sights, movements, sounds and places coalesce, reflecting the artist’s surroundings in lush electronic unison. Born and raised in her parents’ art gallery in a small village in the Flanders countryside, Jacobs’ dense avant-pop arrangements pull influence from visual art, poetry and contemporary dance, converting one artistic medium into another. Her latest EP “The Shape of Wandering” was called “a sonic adventure” (NPR), “A musical headfake” (WNYC) and “a book of shadows” (Atwood Magazine).
Merging styles and backgrounds with the floating, free improv techniques of avant garde percussionist and composer Raf Vertessen, Jacobs’ structured art pop pieces incorporate an element of free-form abstraction. The Shape of Wandering is an amorphous reflection of the shapeless paths of life, a commentary on the measureless collective stream of consciousness juxtaposed to the internal struggle of the self-critiquing individual. Jacobs seeks to grasp her environments with empathy and understanding, reclaiming the feminine strength of softness in a world calcified by ignorance and confusion.
ROOKES is an electro-pop producer-performer from Birmingham, now based in London’s Ten87 Studios. Rookes’ two EP releases and her frank, fiercely intelligent style of delivery have garnered her a loyal fanbase across the UK and beyond. This gig is a rare live appearance from Rookes, described as “The best thing to come out of Birmingham since the Aston Expressway” by God Is In The TV. Rookes is on the precipice of releasing her sonically diverse, self-produced album “POPNOTPOP”, which will be out on all plaQorms in November 2022.
EMILY MAGPIE is a dream pop artist and producer from Bristol with a unique ability to create glittering spacial soundscapes that shimmer endlessly as brooding swirls of electronics and effervescent melodies intertwine with songwriting delving into different dimensions. Having been championed by the likes of Tom Robinson on BBC Radio 6, Earmilk and Mahogany, she has been described by The Line of Best Fit as “spine-tingly special”. Her track ‘Last Train’ received over 90,000 plays on Spotify.
Spending the last few years playing solo as a support act for artists such as This Is The Kit and Let’s Eat Grandma, and everywhere from Green Man Festival and Boomtown Festival in the UK she returned in 2021 with a dynamic + exciting full band experience which has already played several sold out headline shows including Sebright Arms as well as Dot to Dot Festival and FOCUS Wales where the band were picked out as one of God is in the TV’s festival highlights. She recently signed with Silent Kid Records and has several exciting releases lined up for 2022.
