Sarah Gillespie featuring Gilad Atzmon
Sarah Gillespie featuring Gilad Atzmon - Friday 19<sup>th</sup> March
Sarah Gillespie vocals / Guitar
Gilad Atzmon saxophone / accordion
Ben Bastin bass
Josh Blackmore drums
Sarah Gillespie's music is a melting-pot of urban-folk and middle-eastern blues. Her lyrically driven cascades are conveyed with a powerfully sensuous voice and deft finger-picking guitar. With her distinctive delivery, Gillespie is a passionate and formidable storyteller – wrestling with the toils of life, love and yearning in a style that blends everyday banter with raw poetry.
Bursting with character, her voice is strong and provocative, yet at the same time full of vulnerability - and it is this that makes her such a compelling performer. Musically it’s a mix of emotive ballads, raucous gypsy swing, blues and vaudeville - not to mention some wild Arabic-infused flourishes courtesy of Israeli-born Atzmon. However, within all of this, the influences of Bob Dylan, Tom Waits and the Velvet Underground can clearly be heard. Her dynamic band not only includes the album’s producer Gilad Atzmon on accordion, clarinet and sax, but also features renowned jazz drummer and percussionist Asaf Sirkis, with Ben Bastin on double bass, Billy Adamson on guitar, Sameer Makhoul on violin and oud and John Turville, piano.
Sarah Gillespie featuring Gilad Atzmon
A musical melting-pot of urban-folk and middle-eastern blues