One Mic One World

In 2021 I recorded my debut album One Mic, One World (OMOW), which explores different ways in which people experience togetherness and isolation in relation to space, distance, and time.

The album maps my musical past - I reconnected with collaborators who have strongly influenced me at various points in my life, and who perform different genres of music, based all over the world. Using source recordings from each of these musicians, captured on the same travelling microphone, I created a track dedicated to each of them.

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Find out more about each track below:

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Love in the Fraction - Tao (violin)

When I was about 9 I had my first musical experience outside of school, with Tao - a circus performer and Samurai master with dreadlocks down to his ankles, who happened to be a virtuoso violinist on the side. He taught me to improvise and we performed live with Luke the juggler. Tao now lives in American Samoa and hasn't played the violin in decades. I sent him one in the post and he recorded it on his phone - can you hear the rain of Samoa in the background?

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What You Wanna Do? - Edo G (vocals), Dj Yoda (production)

Just ​before the pandemic I had the joy of working with DJ Yoda and Edo G for the recording and release of the album 'Home Cooking'. On tour we even had the chance to take Edo G to Bruton horse fair - a bit of a juxtaposition from the Boston streets. You will also hear the wonderful James Davidson doing his thing on trumpet. 

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Patchwork - Debipriya Das (vocals and sitar), Debasish Mukherjee (tabla)

I met Debipriya and Debasish on two separate projects - Katie De La Matter's 'Calcutta' and Amina Khayyam's ‘A Thousand Faces'. With both musicians I was stuck by their warmth and generosity in sharing knowledge about Hindustani music, which was so new to me, and their sound world drew me in. To this day they have never met, and this piece has been patchworked together from fragments.

BT - Sam Watts (paino), Rachael Cohen (sax)

Sam and Rachael both came to me via Birmingham, although from different eras. Rachael in my first years in the city - coming of age, and Sam at the end of my time there and also whilst transitioning back to London. Times with both of them, and the whole jazz scene with endless nights at the Yardbird and the Spotted Dog, will never be forgotten.

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Jacob Fetch the Children - Roisin McCarthy Green (vocals)

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Can Duh Dilish - Holly Harman (violin)

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I Never Told Anybody- Roisin McCarthy Green (vocals)

Raag Bihag - alap and bihag - Debasish Mukherjee (tabla)

Mad Fox - Rachael Cohen (sax), Sam Watts (paino)

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A Hall of Mirrors - Eugene Friesen (cello)

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Cello Weather

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