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Joanne Robertson
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Joanne Robertson

Painterly folk songs with brittle guitar and voice

Based in Glasgow, United Kingdom · From United Kingdom

FolkExperimental electronicAmbient

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Sparse guitar figures, brushed dynamics, and a voice that stays close and unforced. The songs tend to feel improvised at the edges, with melodies that hang in the air and then slip away.

More about Joanne Robertson

Robertson works across music and painting from Glasgow, with records that sit between private-songwriting and art-world collaboration. She’s moved through circles around Dean Blunt, Mica Levi, Oliver Coates, and Sidsel Meineche Hansen.

A story

The Wire says she started out as a musician and painter, and that collaboration expands her vocabulary.

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Mica Levi, Dean Blunt, Lankum

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