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Joana Serrat UK Tour

Music.  UK Tour, 24/01/2017

Catalan folk singer Joana Serrat returns to London with her latest album ‘Cross The Verge’ on 25 January at The Islington. The talented artist's tour includes Celtic Connections in Glasgow on 30 January and concerts in Nottingham, Exeter, Bexhill, Manchester and Newcastle.




'Her soft and genuine voice opens you up to a new world, a world of dreams and smooth and silken atmospheres' Rolling Stone France

Joana Serrat ​

UK Dates and Venues

24 Jan   NOTTINGHAM, The Poppy & Pint
25 Jan   LONDON, The Islington
26 Jan   EXETER, Voodoo Lounge
27 Jan   BEXHILL, The Albatross
28 Jan   MANCHESTER, Fred’s Ale House
29 Jan   NEWCASTLE, Cluny 2
30 Jan   GLASGOW, Celtic Connections

 

Loose Music on Joana Serrat: 

'Cross The Verge, just as its name promises, shows us another side of Joana Serrat, who so enchanted audiences on her 2014 album Dear Great Canyon. On Cross The Verge, her third album, Joana lays bare all the cracks, inconsistencies and fears that come with life, with the album revealing itself to be an especially beautiful tribute to the acknowledgment of loss and the acceptance of the uncertain.

To record this album, Joana Serrat travelled from her home in Vic, near Barcelona, to Montreal, Canada to team up with producer Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire, The Barr Brothers) in his analogue studio, The Hotel2Tango. In the recording process Joana was joined by the likes of Gavin Gardiner (The Wooden Sky), Aaron Goldstein (Daniel Romano, City & Colour, Cowboy Junkies) and the acclaimed Canadian auto harpist and vocalist Basia Bulat. Elsewhere, Neil Halstead (Slowdive, Mojave 3) and Ryan Boldt (The Deep Dark Woods) joined Joana in two duets from two different approaches; the shimmering pop of Cloudy Heart and the wrought Americana of Black Lake.

Howard Bilerman’s approach results in Cross The Verge feeling like a natural progression and a show of real maturity. Her ability to never waste a lyric or syllable where something need be said and never miss an opportunity to breathe life into a song’s darker corners, illustrates her creative growth. Cross The Verge is a beguiling collection of songs that move with great ease between the precious evanescence of Lonely Heart Reverb, Oh, Winter Come or Flags, and the vigorous guitar sound that predominates in Desert Valley, Tug of War, and the moving Black Lake. There’s elegance in the trotting Americana rhythms of Saskatoon (Break of Dawn), I Follow You, Child and the crystalline Cloudy Heart.

This year sees a return to Primavera Sound Festival for Joana, with the festival’s El Segell del Primavera label releasing the album in Spain. Loose has lanched her album worldwide.'

Source: Loose

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