Zoe Heselton is a British-born poet, songwriter, guitarist and singer based in Strasbourg. Steeped in traditional, folk, blues and flamenco music, spoken word poetry and a multitude of eclectic and experimental influences, her lively, intimate music, delivered with an incisive, sensitive electric guitar, oscillates between vulnerability and power, recounting darkness and reparation. Sometimes melodious, sometimes dissonant, her songs are litanies for survival, poems of tenderness and rage.
Milkweed describes his style as slacker-trad, which is both true and insufficient. For the past three years, Milkweed has been honing a formula: take existing material (a journal of folklore, a book on Welsh myths, another on Bronze Age human remains, and most recently Thomas Kinsella's translation of an austere master's thesis from Táin Bó Cúailnge), cut out the words and run them through a shredder made of lo-fi production and experimental folk music.
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