tanya auclair
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"...Gobsmacking!" Tom Robinson, BBC6 Music
"...so damn original.." Okayplayer
"...Big discovery for me" Gilles Peterson, BBC Radio 1Hailing 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.
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- 3 tracks (13:40)"I was staring at this piece of paper and suddenly I wondered what it'd be like for us to switch places. For me to be the blank page, and all the possible destinies in the simplest folds. Every piece of origami starts with a one fold, I liked that idea and the simplicity of it. And if you think about it for people, that we can fold and unfold in so many directions and ways." Trailer by Eleni Savvidou:
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- 6 tracks (18:41)Thrum is the 1st solo outing of the lo-fi adventures of London singer-songwriter Tanya Auclair. Her warm intimate sound is a beguiling mix of playful DIY drums, layers of voice, intricate uke and guitar 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.”
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09.03.12 // SOUND & SILENTS: 'THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES' (LIVE SCORE) // SOUTHBANK CENTRE
LONDON, UK // INFO11.03.12 // SOUND & SILENTS: 'SPARROWS' (LIVE SCORE W/ ARISTA HAWKES) // HACKNEY PICTUREHOUSE
LONDON, UK // INFO30.03.12 // w/ UNITED VIBRATIONS // THE VORTEX
LONDON, UK // INFO30.03.12 // CAMDEN CRAWL // THE ROUNDHOUSE
LONDON, UK20-22.07.12 // SOUNDWAVE FESTIVAL
CROATIA // INFO
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