Rita Braga, Bingo Harry, Susan, Nick Alexander

Following her highly successful performance last month, we couldn’t help but bring back Rita…

RITA BRAGA (Lisbon, 1985) is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She performs songs in over 10 languages, both solo and collaboratively.
Over the last decade she has performed in numerous clubs, theatres, art galleries and festivals across Europe, the US, Brazil and Australia, alongside composing soundtracks for animated shorts and TV commercials. She holds a BA in Music Sciences and is currently undertaking an interdisciplinary MA in Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Bird on the Moon (Lunadélia Records, 2018) reveals her idiosyncratic and sometimes eerie pop compositions. Mark Barton describes it on The Sunday Experience as “a world teased with a childlike surreal innocence, both spectral and minimalist, populated by a playful alchemy whose somewhat casual absent mindedness charms and chimes with a crooked and kooky allure. Reference wise, Ms Braga shares a kinship with the Space Lady, both operating in a sparse pop purist medium that draws its lineage back to Silver Apples”.
She has previously self released Gringo in São Paulo (2015), an EP comprised of original songs written and recorded whilst living in Brazil, and her critically acclaimed debut album Cherries That Went To The Police (2011), a reinterpretation of songs from all over the world (produced by Bernardo Devlin).
In 2016, during a 2 month residency in Graz, Austria, she wrote and performed the sci-fi minimal ukulele pop operetta A Quantic Dream. The show combined a dream sequence, astrophysics, burlesque, animation and light hearted existencialism, moving her artistic practise towards the realm of DIY musical theatre and increasingly hybrid performances.
Braga represented Portugal in EurNoVision 2016, an annual release of underground European artists, and she was one of the ukulele artists integrating the cd Songs for the Sea: Ukulele Sirens (released in May 2017).
Her collaborations, both live and recorded, include work with The Legendary Tigerman, Martha Colburn, Dorit Chrysler, Mary Ocher, Victor Coyote, Borts Minorts, Bernardo Devlin, Presidente Drógado, Felix Kubin and Ian Svenonius.

https://superbraguita.com

BINGO HARRY channel the inner river into the outside world, expressed with a fearless character of iridescent vibration.

The founding member benny jones created the alter ego BINGO HARRY to vocalise his lightheart love & transformations, to account his daydreams via natural pop & melodic tendancies .

His creative shell first truly cracked during the creation of an urban village in manchester, where the experimental circles helped breed & nurture an avande garde style.

This period inspired his first release, the utopian first release UNIFICATION, a record composed of nylon guitars, looped vocals and beats, a tin can drum kit & field recordings. This paved the way for the evolution & group based curve that was to follow.

Possibly a solo performance this time.

SUSAN: explores the overpowering feelings of growing up different, documenting a utopian getaway. Singer/songwriter Chester Kirkin and musician James Hollingsworth, bring sinister electronica loops and guitar riffs encapsulating the fearful decent as they peer out of the closet, into the wide world of possibilities during self-discovery.

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