Folkroom presents: The Magic Lantern

About

Peggy's Skylight | Nottingham
Sunday 13th October 2024
Tickets: £15

Doors at 6pm
Performance from 7pm

Jamie Doe, an artist exploring the limitless depth of the human experience with devastating, joyous results. Performing with a quartet his live show is a cathartic, life affirming experience of spirited improvisation, taught ensemble writing and Jamie's arresting vocal lyricism.

"Ooh that's beautiful isn't it?" – Huw Stephens, BBC Radio 1

"Excellent, intriguing and compelling, a man to watch" – The Guardian

"Dreamy, beautiful. Something very, very special" – Lauren Laverne, BBC6 Music

To Everything A Season is the unashamedly emotional fifth album from The Magic Lantern, the musical moniker of singer-songwriter and composer Jamie Doe, an artist blurring the boundaries between folk, jazz and contemporary classical music.
Working with an ensemble drawn from London's thriving alternative jazz scene, The Magic Lantern's live show captures a rich emotional immediacy through spirited improvisation, taught ensemble writing and Jamie's arresting vocal lyricism to craft songs that examine the limitless depth of the human experience with devastating, joyous results.

His upcoming fifth album To Everything A Season was written and recorded in the months following his daughters birth and his fathers death six weeks later. In their brief meeting in a dementia nursing home, two ends of the circle of life touched. Of that cathartic moment, Jamie says 'I saw myself in my father, and my daughter in me and I felt joy and grief in overlapping waves'. The music attempts to make sense of this incredible time of intense contrasting feelings. The result is a record that crackles with the quiet intensity of life's rawest and most intimate moments.

Recorded live over four days at the legendary La Buissonne studio in France by Gérard de Haro, the sound of To Everything A Season captures a vivid emotional immediacy, the richness of the ensemble arrangements and spirited improvisation belying the devastating songwriting. The album is both dreamy and direct, using the space around Jamie's immediately arresting voice to emphasise its emotional weight.

Born in Australia, before moving to the UK at 12, Jamie adopted the stage name of The Magic Lantern and began writing songs while studying philosophy at Bristol University. He lives in London and has released four full length albums and two EPs in addition to a compilation of other artists versions of his songs for the male suicide prevention charity CALM. He has toured the UK, Europe and Australia alongside This Is The Kit, Sam Lee and Alabaster Deplume among others.

The Magic Lantern has received praise from numerous publications including The Guardian, Songlines, Acoustic Magazine and Folk Radio UK as well as BBC Radio 1's Huw Stephens, BBC 6 Music's Lauren Laverne, Guy Garvey, Tom Robinson, BBC Radio 3's Late Junction, Night Tracks and BBC Radio 2's Jamie Cullum, Mark Radcliffe and Bob Harris among others.

"Bitter sweet, beautiful music" – Verity Sharp, BBC Radio 3 Late Junction 

"Every now and again you come across a piece of music that will completely take your breath away. It might not be instant, but it will." – Fortitude Magazine

Lineup

Jamie Doe – vocals, guitar

Dave Hamblett – drums

Matt Robinson – piano

Chis Hyson – bass