Shows

Babel, plus special guests Essie Jain and Eoin O'Ruainigh Sat 14th February 2009 Café Oto 18 – 22 Ashwin Street Dalston London E8 3DL

Tickets £7 in advance / more on the door 

Babel (Live) 

Babel like "Bay-bull". Not "bar-bell" or "babble".
Born in Bristol in the UK, Babel started out all kind of small, folky & a bit shy but then fell in dirty love with pounding tambourines and volume knobs.
Songs led to concerts, concerts led to the recording two self-financed EPs, 'The Golden Acre EP' & 'The Arc EP'. Both were sold from tables in tiny venues. Some of which reached places far beyond their own postcode.
In 2007, People Tree Records of London, UK released the majority of our two EPs to the world on one reasonably priced compact disc & weighty slab of vinyl. The CDs have long gone but there's still some vinyl around if you look hard enough.

 

Essie Jain (Live) 

New York-based Londoner Essie Jain returns swiftly with her second album, The Inbetween, the lush and more deeply embellished follow up to her fragile and tender debut, We Made This Ourselves. Jain builds stark miniatures out of a few light strums of guitar and her haunting alto. On her captivating new album, her voice is multitracked in precise harmonies that can be warm or ghostly Time Out, NY 

A compelling balance between intimacy and reserve Time Out, London

Essie Jain is a delight... Definitely a must-get album... Highly recommended **** Sunday Telegraph (Top 10 Pop CDs of 2008) 

Lush instrumentation ranges from neo-classical to brass-heavy and takes in the odd bierkeller stomp on an intimate delight of an album that sits somewhere between P.J. Harvey’s White Chalk and Madelain Peyroux’s Careless Love Mojo 

Jain's voice is an amazing instrument The Word 

Her second album, The Inbetween, distances itself from the pack with melodic warmth, some understated arrangements and a pristine voice that soothes away the most stubborn woes Q

Frequently takes your breath away **** Time Out

Eoin O'Ruainigh (Live) 

He’s played with the likes of Alberta Cross, By The Fireside and Alma NoFear, and we’re very excited to have Eoin (say Owen) play this show.