We’re proud to present you our five-artist selection

12 November 2019

We’re proud to present you our five-artist selec­tion, chosen by our jury of music pro­fes­sion­als. They will attend both our work­shops in Nantes (Novem­ber 2019) and Athens (Feb­ru­ary 2020), meet new people, play music and learn all sort of stuff. Now take some time to dis­cov­er Alice Hubble (UK), J‑Silk (FR), Marta Cas­cales Alimbau (ES), Mar­tin Balt­ser (DK) and Simone Tang (DK).

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We’re proud to present you our five-artist selection

We’re proud to present you our five-artist selection

We’re proud to present you our five-artist selec­tion, chosen by our jury of music pro­fes­sion­als. They will attend both our work­shops in Nantes (Novem­ber 2019) and Athens (Feb­ru­ary 2020), meet new people, play music and learn all sort of stuff. Now take some time to dis­cov­er Alice Hubble (UK), J‑Silk (FR), Marta Cas­cales Alimbau (ES), Mar­tin Balt­ser (DK) and Simone Tang (DK).

Alice Hubble (UK)

Alice Hubble is the pro­ject of Alice Hub­ley and the product of one lady locked at home with her vast col­lec­tion of syn­thes­isers. The album ‘Polar­lichter’ was born out of a desire to work on a pro­ject without con­straints, to move away from the tra­di­tion­al song writ­ing pro­cess and to exper­i­ment with the form. Inspired by the 70’s record­ings by Tan­ger­ine Dream, Ashra and even Mike Old­field, Alice wanted to take a more del­ic­ate approach; a dis­tinctly fem­in­ine take on often pom­pous 70’s pro­gress­ive synth sound.

J‑Silk (J‑Silk, FR)

J‑Silk, a Bor­deaux-Lon­don ‘Future Soul’ trio, released their second EP on March 30th 2018. They are part of the cur­rent music scene that fuses hip-hop, pop and elec­tro; think of The Inter­net, Ander­son Paak, Little Dragon, James Blake and the like. J‑Silk is a Neo-Soul col­lage of vin­tage Adi­das jack­ets, ana­logue syn­thes­izers, hip-hop beats and an excep­tion­al, sen­su­al voice.

Marta Cas­cales Alimbau (ES)

Marta Cas­cales Alimbau is a pian­ist and com­poser from Bar­celona, with a Clas­sic­al Music back­ground but a mod­ern approach. Her music blends ele­ments of legendary com­posers such as Bach & Debussy while also brings influ­ences of mod­ern clas­sic­al artists like Ólafur Arnalds and Max Richter. Marta under­stands music as a way of com­mu­nic­a­tion and expres­sion. She tells stor­ies through the piano and takes you to dif­fer­ent places, emo­tions and sen­sa­tions. Her debut album Light-House (Piano & Cof­fee Records, 2017), led her to keep record­ing and releas­ing her music, now signed with the NYC label Son­der House. She is cur­rently work­ing on her second album titled Anoche, to be released by the end of 2019.

Mar­tin Balt­ser (DK)

Mar­tin Balt­ser is an elec­tro-folk artist based in Aar­hus, Den­mark. His first album ’The Waste­land Incid­ent’ was released in Septem­ber 2018. The first single ‘Call Me Wild’ got world­wide atten­tion and have reached 300.000 clicks on Spo­ti­fy. Since that the music has been picked by MTV Asia, Ger­man radio like NDR2, inter­na­tion­al playl­ists, and big music magazines like Akustik Gitarre and Ton­s­pi­on. In 2018 the world cham­pi­on Ran Ravnik danced to a song from the album in Los Angeles. Since 2017 the band has played many shows, among oth­ers at SPOT Fest­iv­al (DK), Norden Fest­iv­al (DE).

Simone Tang (DK)

In her rel­at­ively short career as a song­writer, Simone Tang has already sold sev­er­al com­pos­i­tions for film scores, for both domest­ic and for­eign movies. While most Danes might remem­ber her for her role in the dan­ish fea­ture film “Aching Hearts” by Nils Malm­ros’, for Simone Tang it is music that has been the focus for the past sev­er­al years. By the time she was accep­ted into the Roy­al Academy of Music as a song­writer back in 2015, she had already played as a sup­port­ing act for artists such as MiC LOWRY, Erik Hassle, Loyle Carner and Sara Hartmann.

Last year, Simone was announced as an artist at Dan­ish fest­ivals Smuk­fest and SPOT, as well as being chosen as the Dan­ish up-and-com­ing tal­ent to play at renowned show­case fest­iv­al The Great Escape in Eng­land. Simone Tang released her first single “Shame” in april, writ­ten and pro­duced by her­self, which cur­rently has streamed over 196.000 times. Simone releases her 2n’d single “Smil­ing” in septem­ber 2019.