"...Gobsmacking!" Tom Robinson, BBC6 Music
"...so damn original.." Okayplayer
"...Big discovery for me" Gilles Peterson, BBC Radio 1
Hailing from west London, via Canada and Rwanda – Tanya Auclair's musical upbringing straddled very different worlds. Citing influences as wide-ranging as Bongo Joe Coleman, Juana Molina, The Staple Singers, Laurie Anderson, Matthew Herbert and E.S.G, her open instinctive approach shows in the territory she covers in a beguiling mix of playful DIY drums, layers of voice, intricate melodies and touches of electronica.
Armed with just a digital recorder, FruityLoops and some instruments she wrote and produced her debut solo release, EP ‘Thrum’. “A road-trip round Sweden set this fever off in me. Initially it was an experiment, taking some of my favourite things about music - primal rhythms, loads of vocal harmonies and straight-up melodies – and it turned into its own little beast, making me dig deeper, to where everything thrums.”
Early vocal-body percussion work with jazz pioneer Leon Parker and an excitement for music made from ‘minimal means’ gave rise to her disinctive sound and compelling one-woman-band show. She builds her songs live on stage, sampling her voice with a loop pedal, playing ukulele, guitar and percussion.
The multi-instrumentalist has worked with the likes of Matthew Herbert’s Big Band Ensemble, Stateless, Yult and recently collaborated with Charlie Dark on a critically acclaimed live re-score of Black Orpheus. Her latest EP 'Origami' is out now.
09.03.12 // SOUND & SILENTS: 'THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES' (LIVE SCORE) // SOUTHBANK CENTRE
LONDON, UK // INFO
11.03.12 // SOUND & SILENTS: 'SPARROWS' (LIVE SCORE W/ ARISTA HAWKES) // HACKNEY PICTUREHOUSE
LONDON, UK // INFO
30.03.12 // w/ UNITED VIBRATIONS // THE VORTEX
LONDON, UK // INFO
30.03.12 // CAMDEN CRAWL // THE ROUNDHOUSE
LONDON, UK
20-22.07.12 // SOUNDWAVE FESTIVAL
CROATIA // INFO