Josienne Clarke | |
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 Josienne Clarke performing in 2019 | |
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| Born | 1982 |
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| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer-songwriter, composer |
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| Years active | 2008–present |
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| Website | josienneclarke |
Josienne Clarke is a British singer-songwriter.
From 2009 until 2018 she formed a duo with guitarist Ben Walker, winning a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for best duo in 2017, and signing with music label Rough Trade Records, [1] [2] with whom she made two duo albums, one record with her band PicaPica and her solo record ‘In All Weather’ in 2019. She also recorded an EP ‘Such A Sky’ with jazz pianist Kit Downes in 2017. She has toured world-wide and has supported folk musician Richard Thompson on one of his tours. [1]
In 2019 she formed a band called PicaPica. The band recorded a studio album called Together & Apart. [1] The Financial Times wrote in 2019 she was "recognised as a rising star of British folk". [1] She subsequently signed with the label Corduroy Punk Records to bring out more solo albums.
Of her 2023 solo album Onliness (which is a re-recording of some previous work), Folkradio wrote: "a graceful melancholy in the melodies and a bird-like fragility to her singing coating an underlayer of grit and menace you would be foolish to ignore". [3]
| Year | Title | Credited to |
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| 2010 | One Light Is Gone | solo |
| 2013 | Fire & Fortune | Clarke & Walker |
| 2016 | Overnight | Clarke & Walker |
| 2017 | Such a Sky | Clarke & Walker |
| 2019 | Together & Apart | PicaPica |
| 2019 | In All Weather | solo |
| 2021 | A Small Unknowable Thing | solo |
| 2022 | Now And Then | solo |
| 2023 | Onliness – Songs of Solitude & Singularity | solo |
| 2024 | Parenthesis, I | solo |
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