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Xsara

www.xsara.co.uk Half Egyptian quarter Swedish Xsara (pronounced Ex-sar-ruh) born in London spent her childhood in the US,Mississippi where she was influenced by the Blues, discovered the delight of grits,jolly ranchers, hunting and Martin Luther King videos. Now many many years on she spends her time making music as an attempt to make sense of the world around her . Influences: A TOUCH OF SUGAR, SOME GRIT, A BIT OF LEMON JUICE AND SOME 3D GLASSES

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Rachel Taylor-Beales

Rachel takes the stage, shuts her eyes and sings. Soulful and resonant like some fallen chorister, hers is a voice thick enough to stand a spoon in. The blend of the acoustic and the jazz, the soft and the skeptical, the old and the new, are punctuated by an instinct to examine life and sift out little pieces of truth. In essence she is a storyteller re-counting her observations with humour, anger, sweetness and all of them dressed in her mesmeric, dancing voice. These are songs to celebrate our extra-ordinary ordinariness, the dignity in the mundane and the good in the sad.

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Pam Shaffer

Armed with a delicious blend of delicate piano lines and biting lyrics, Pam Shaffer’s new album “It Is Happening Again” is packed with sweeping emotion and evocative stories. Pam is a singer of lullabies sprung from a sunken pirate ship, a pixie with a haunting voice, nimble fingers, and a killer shoe collection. A rare LA native, she has always had a taste for the eccentricities of life, sporting her great aunt’s costume jewelry to school as a child while delighting in a musical backdrop of Chopin, folk tunes and the requisite pop of the 80’s.

Irene Rae

Life and how people treat others are the main influences on Irene Rae’s reflective and emotional sound. Irene explores the residual effects of seemingly thoughtless actions of humanity through her diverse songs , that float between delicate melodies and painful, bitter undertones in a heartbeat. Irene was no stranger to music after playing Alto Saxophone from the age of 12, she began to teach herself guitar when aged 22...

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Tina Mali

Tina Mali is about recording the emotions in the moment she creates her songs, leaving pure melodies.
She has crafted a dynamic expressive and atmospheric sound, likened to Bjork, Kate Bush and Tori Amos, with unique melodic hooks and thoughtful, challenging lyrics. Previously signed to Sony, Tina’s new project is attracting a following in the UK and beyond. Her music is currently play-listed on Radio FM4 across central Europe. She has been gigging in and around London with a live line-up of hammered dulcimer/ yang quin, tabla, djembe, darabouka, guitar, keyboard and bass.

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