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Sarah Moule Cool London jazz vocalist with a sweet swinging sound. "Honeyed in sound, subtle in timing and pitch, shrewd in weighting the music with meaning." The Guardian Over the past few years singer Sarah Moule has established a rapidly growing reputation as one of Britain’s most exciting new jazz talents. Her highly acclaimed debut CD “It’s A Nice Thought” (AKD 192), released in 2002, showed that in lyricist Fran Landesman and composer Simon Wallace (“one of the finest songwriting partnerships alive” The Observer) she has found a source of contemporary songs which are melodic, thought-provoking, literate and witty, and...
The core of the band have been playing together since they met at school in Glastonbury with the festval on their doorstep. Led by Cellist & songwriter Hannah Moulette; many musicians have joined what has been more like a collective than your average band. Think Frank Zappa ‘s extended band, meets Broken Social Scene, meets one of those incestous Folk rock/pysch folk bands from the 60’s/70’s. Throw in the occasional American indie rock twists of Deerhoof & Tuneyards with Queen scale Vocal Harmonies & epic string arrangements & you get close to what the band has tried to present so...
Ken Moule (1925-1986) was an English pianist, composer, and arranger. Moule was born in Barking, Essex. His musical career began with British dance bands; he left the Johnny Dankworth Quartet to join Oscar Rabin in 1945. After working on the Queen Mary on the transatlantic route, in a band with Ronnie Scott and Johnny Dankworth, he worked with many leading bands, including Jiver Hutchinson, Ken Mackintosh, Ambrose. In 1954 he broke away and formed his own septet -- two tenor saxes, baritone sax, trumpet, and three-man rhythm section. It had a fair amount of success touring, broadcasting, and recording for...