JosieJo’s
Great Big Pair of Tips
The
JosieJo Show 23
Welcome,
welcome, welcome to the JosieJo Show and in tribute to the recent
International Women’s Day that was on March 8th
2014 I’ve got two wonderful female singer-songwriters to inspire
and delight. Both tracks are just three and a half minutes long
and each is brimming with soul, wit and something of the essential
essence of what it means to be a woman in this world of wonder. It’s
going to be a beautiful fifteen minutes and I’m happy to share it
with you.
May
I introduce you to a delightful and youthful singer-songwriter Phoebe
Warden? A Nineteen year old from Canterbury, England she’s been
immersing herself in the local busking scene for a while now.
I’ve mentioned the Canterbury busking scene before when I played
CoCo and The Butterfields and indeed it was at a CoCo and The
Butterfields gig in December 2013 that I first encountered Phoebe and
she blew my socks off with her super charming, self-effacing calm.
She’s folk indie of the 21st
Century. I couldn’t help but compare her to Joni Mitchell as
she played live and listening to her music since she reminds me of a
soothing Caitlin Rose especially in this song “Hotel Bar”.
With its cute drinking theme, assonance and terse rhymes it tickles
my eardrums and makes me smile. It’s a song she wrote as she
sat in a hotel bar waiting for her date who never showed up.
Once she’s beguiled you with her tune you’ll want to shout “you
cad” to that fellow or, as Dave Milligan did at The Green Note café
that night, “you were stood up? Unbelievable”. Why
would anyone stand-up the charming Phoebe Warden? She doesn’t
demand sympathy though. It’s a happy, hearty, hand-clappy
bounce. This tune is sung beautifully and attentively
produced. Tell us the story Phoebe Warden and “Hotel Bar”.
Cool
isn’t it? Phoebe is just a delight to chat to and she is
often found supporting the mighty CoCo and the Butterfields.
I’ll be tweeting the dates of their mini tour as they continue on
it so follow me on twitter under the tag josiejoshow and if you get
along to a live event or two you’ll probably catch Phoebe sooner or
later. It’ll be like being in Venice Beach in the sixties and
you will be able to say that you were there.
My
next musician is Fanny Hulter Salinder and she’s also an artist and
producer based in Stockholm, Sweden. Her musical project goes
under the name of Nuoli. She is staunchly feminist and
passionate about challenging stereotypes. Her music is about
questioning what it is to be human and she is being very successful
in spreading her word globally denouncing inequality wherever it
exists. In the Berlin based blog Nordic By Nature she recently
described her project as being born from the simple fact that “time
and pressure makes diamonds”
I
think that this track “My Curse Is My Mind” is one of those
diamonds. It’s a call to arms against unfairness and
disrespect. It's swirling sound uses percussion in many
different ways which underlines the sort of fragile strength that
she, herself, possesses. Sometimes it’s a tub-thumping beat,
next it’s a tinkly twinkle and sometimes it’s both of those at
once. This track has a beautiful soaring quality that
leaves you uplifted and the end fades away like stones turning paler
as they dry in the sunshine. Sit back and enjoy this. It’s
quite wonderful Nuoli and “My Curse Is My Mind”
I
never want that track to end. Nuoli’s new single “My Curse Is My
Mind” and you can read her answers to Nordic By Nature’s
questions on their website http://nordicbynatureberlin.com/
I’ll be plundering that website for great bands in the near future
I’ll be bound. Visit my Facebook page for photos I've taken of
Phoebe Warden aswell as much more extra content and my website for
links to all the archived shows and links to the bands. In respect of
International Women's Day I'll end this show with a track by another
great female singer songwriter this time from Vlissingen,
Nederland
This is Eva Auad and “Roll It Over Me”
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