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
22.04.12 // FRACTAL WAVES w/ CLORINDE & GLOCKENSPIEL // THE OTHERS
LONDON, UK // INFO
05.05.12 // CAMDEN CRAWL // THE ROUNDHOUSE
LONDON, UK // INFO
10.05.12 // w/ PORTICO QUARTET & NICK MULVEY // NORTH SEA JAZZ CLUB
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS // INFO
17.05.12 // SOUNDBITES // RICH MIX
LONDON, UK // INFO
17.06.12 // CELEBRATING SANCTUARY
LONDON, UK
21.06.12 // w/ FIREFLY BURNING // THE FORGE
LONDON, UK // INFO
25.06.12 // THE HUMAN CONNECTION // LE CERCLE DE VOYAGEURS
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
13.07.12 // SOUND & SILENTS: 'SPARROWS' (LIVE SCORE W/ ARISTA HAWKES) // LATITUDE FESTIVAL
SOUTHWOLD, UK
20-22.07.12 // SOUNDWAVE FESTIVAL
CROATIA // INFO
Today was really really great. I got to spend it listening to one of my favourite drummers, Marc Pell, murk it on my new songs. I can’t tell you how excited I am about this. He brought along a snare that looked like it came from Stargate and sounded like it came out of 1984. Charlie Andrew truly does make wishes come true, even when he has a dutty man flu.
I also felt my mate Chloe’s baby dancing about inside her, which took my breath right away.
Tomorrow I’m in rehearsals for a collaboration with the bonkers and brilliant Gabriel Bisset-Smith for this on Thursday »
I have a massive crush on Amsterdam after just 24 hours. Good mooching with no maps. Got to see my lovely Dutch mates too and sing my songs. Dre jeep-tests his tracks, I eurostar-test them chyea..?!
Still from Tornado Milpa Alta, 2000-10, Francis Alÿs
Breathtaking.
Tonight Mr Alÿs you is my muse.
so hyped to be working with visuals collective EYESONTHEWALL this Saturday - they’re just a bit hella lot good.
we’ll be doing the do at the Roundhouse - flyer fyah below
‘Fluke’ features in the supadupa talented Nick Mulvey’s selection of Songwriters for 22tracks! Click HERE to listen.
So excited and proud for homegirl and my favourite designer Kezia Frederick - her collection was a hit at Nigeria’s Fashion Week Arise. She the shiz.
Man alive, James Murphy is funny as. I went to see him lecture at RBMA London last night and he made my face ache I laughed so hard. I think he should be the next US President. Uncle Tony Nwachukwu was dishing out the golden tips in Production, I now have a stack of new things I’m dying to try out on the new songs. I feel thoroughly inspired. I love Mr Murphy’s lyrics.
Me, Arista and Joe (and Mary Pickford) at the Purcell Rooms, Southbank Centre, live scoring our hearts out on Friday night. Thanks to my wing man and lady, Roshi, Anna and Birds Eye View. Amazing night.
Clickedy click the pic to listen to my mix for London label Bridging the Gap!
Sneaky peek of the live score I’ve been working on to 1912 silent ‘The Female of the Species’ at the Southbank Centre this Friday….
eeer how cool is this girl???! Blazaaaaay! I love bees and I still wouldn’t be down
Just spent 2 days jamming with United Vibrations down in Deptford. You never know what will come out of these things, but we can’t wait to take our songs out now. I knew we’d get along fine when they introduced me to the heavenly delights of Chaconia’s Trinidadian food too (RESULT!)… And I got to indulge in massive psych-wig-out fun, yusssss.
Today I am rocking the tubi-grip/limping swagger - you just can’t learn a look like that. Thank you Homerton A&E! From me and my sprained foot.
The moral of this tale is look where you’re going when walking down stairs.
Spring in the air, Sa Ra’s Glorious in the ears and a tech meeting for Sounds & Silents
Just played at the National Portrait Gallery. I was up against Lucien Freud, thats a tough gig. What a lovely crowd and I didn’t go a** over tit in my gravitationally challenging new footwear - result! Thank you everyone who made it. I had a lot of fun. This lady was looking down at me the whole time, which kept me on my toes. You wouldn’t mess would you? Had THE chinese feast to end all chinese feasts after. Extra gold stars to Chloe, Martin, Bub, Dan, Dave, Mooch, Juliana and Andy
"...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.”
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 done live film score commissions for Vision Sound Music - the critically acclaimed live re-score of Black Orpheus with Charlie Dark and Birds Eye View's 'Sounds & Silents'. Her latest EP 'Origami' is out now.