Liverpool based artist Sara Wolff, originally from Bergen in Norway, creates her own homespun alt-folk filled with cautionary tales about days in bed, struggling relationships and social interactions. She loved Bergen, the music scene, the people, the coffee shops, the little wooden houses, steep hills and cobbled streets where she grew up around a lot of inspiring people. Growing up she played the violin and sang in a choir, and when she was 12 she began teaching herself the guitar. with her first solo performance with my friend at a culture competition for young people. Her musical youth definitely shaped who she is and how she writes today as there were always lots of gigs happening, lots of jazz gigs to sneak into before she was 18, and the student house always had many cool bands playing (and the cheapest beer). She was also very involved in politics back home, which is definitely something that has influenced her songwriting. She moved to Liverpool in 2016 to do a degree in music, which she'd always dreamed of doing and it led to her meeting her current band, some great friends and a lot of great collaborators. It also led to her finding who she was as a musician as she cut her teeth performing at some of the city's historic venues alongside artists like SOAK, Lyla Foy and Francis Lung (Wu Lyf). Scared that she would lose Bergen as a home when she left, she has actually just gained an extra home and now has two! She writes alt-folk with a dark sense of humour. Lyrically, she is whimsical and playful – yet always brutally honest. Her 3-minute universes are written and arranged in the bay window of her Toxteth home studio. Each song takes on a life of its own within the cosy chaos of her collected things; guitars, woolly blankets, half-drunk cups of tea, and shelves gently buckling under books and strange plants - a happy setting for apparently less happy songs, but its within such contrasts her inspiration seeps in.
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| When You Left The Room |
Sara was set to make her strongest statement to date in March 2021 with the release of her debut EP, 'When You Left The Room'. It is an
EP about fraying relationships and botched social interactions,
recalling the off-kilter approach of Fiona Apple and Cate Le Bon. With each listen, 'When You Left The Room' reveals more subtleties, tiny
layers packed into an EP of just five songs. Sara Wolff easily grabs the
listener’s attention with her distinctive way of telling stories we can
all relate to.Ahead of its release, she shared
the excellent single, 'Bad Thoughts Compilation', a reflection on the, 'never-ending circle',
that can come from cycling through your own thoughts and worrying about
what others think of you. Musically her sound is a somewhat angular
take on alt-folk, bringing to the mind the likes of Cate Le Bon or
Cocorosie with her call-and-response way with melodies, both vocal and
instrumental, and her gently disorienting take on a more traditionally
straight talking genre. She has opened for artists such as Field Division and Bryde, and she
was in the summer 2018 selected to be a part of Merseyrail Sound
Station, an artist development programme by Merseyrail and Liverpool
magazine Bido Lito!
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| Photo by Abby Meysenburg |
On her Facebook page in March 2022 she posted, "My
debut EP, 'When You Left The Room’ is one year old (yesterday!) oh how
time flies. Thank you to everyone who’s listened to it over the past
year, I’m so grateful for the support you’ve given and all the amazing
people I got to collaborate with in the process of making it. Here are
some photos Abby Meysenburg took in the studio back in 2019, and I am so excited to go back to Eve Studios to record some new material next month! There are lots of exciting
things to come this year and I couldn’t have done it without my friends
gorgeous artwork by Becky McGillivray
She began her first solo tour in 2022 :-
While her music journey is only just beginning, Sara Wolff already feels like an intriguing prospect and the results are already looking hugely exciting.
see also :- http://www.thefootballvoice.com/2022/06/pool-of-sound-sums.html
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