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Together & Apart

    PicaPica’s debut album ‘Together & Apart’ was recorded at the end of 2018 and is produced by Mobo / Mercury-nominated producer Sonny Johns, who also plays bass on the record. Together & Apart’ is about health and heartache, spring and shade, love and loss and life. PicaPica are able to balance life’s joys and sorrows beautifully, effortlessly and in continuous harmony, viewing life’s coloured photographs as imagined through their silvery negatives.

    STAFF COMMENTS

    Barry says: Beautiful rhythmic new folk sounds mix with quirky off-piste melodic tilts and smooth electronic accents. Like a more melody focused Tunng, PicaPica clearly take influence from all ends of the musical spectrum and pull them together into a cohesive and musically rich whole.

    TRACK LISTING

    Together & Apart
    On The Wing
    Cast In Stone
    Family, Friends & Lovers
    Sucker Punch
    Teeth & Chin
    Opposite Song
    SeeSaw
    Village Kids
    To K(no)w One
    Day To Day Parade
    The Weather
    Stones

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    Cast In Stone

      PicaPica features the vocal interplay of Josienne Clarke and Samantha Whates, dual frontwomen who create powerful harmonies atop layers of texture created by Adam Beattie and Sonny Johns, a tiding of magpies picking shiny moments of tone and timbre from 60s West Coast, sunshine pop and indie folk.

      Josienne and Samantha met on the London acoustic music scene several years ago and immediately shared a love of singing and writing. They have been unofficially collaborating for years, often singing backing vocals for each other’s projects or just singing harmonies together for the pure enjoyment of it.

      The other half of PicaPica, Adam Beattie - Scotland’s king of soft-spoken chanson - brings gently morphing textures and detailed guitar playing to every bar, while Sonny Johns is a Grammy, Mercury and MOBO- nominated producer / engineer. Sonny’s bass playing and production give PicaPica's otherworldly compositions a seriously grounded sound.

      The band first appeared on the scene with their debut EP ‘Spring & Shade’ back in 2016 and are now returning with this new 12” featuring delicate yet empowering new track ‘Cast in Stone’. The release also features two remixes from Seb Rochford - best known for drumming with the legendary Patti Smith - who has also performed on PicaPica’s upcoming debut album.

      TRACK LISTING

      Cast In Stone
      Cast In Sea
      Overcast

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      Spring & Shade

        Josienne Clarke and Samantha Whates met on the London acoustic music scene several years ago and immediately shared a love of singing and writing songs. They have been unofficially collaborating for years, more often than not singing backing vocals for each other’s projects or just singing harmonies together for the pure enjoyment of it.

        PicaPica represents a long held ambition to write, record and perform new material and to join together with like-minded musicians and explore what it’s like to be in a band. Along with multiinstrumentalist, singer and songwriter Adam Beattie and multiple Grammy, Mercury and MOBO nominated producer, guitarist and bass player Sonny Johns, PicaPica make a sound that provides the perfect platform for two of the UK’s brightest vocal and songwriting talents. It’s instantly recognisable and completely unique.

        TRACK LISTING

        Spring & Shade/Light Of The Day
        Dawing/Morning
        Last Leaves/Way Back Up
        Small Time/Secret
        Little April Shower/April
        Come She Will


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