A mate asked me to do an edit of this because the original was live performance and the arrangement was sort of all over the place. Arrangement is very similar to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLdPSRrR-YY however this was only released on Vinyl and incredibly rare now. 

Free Download

Bobby Thurston - You Got What It Takes (Tydus Edit)

Release date: 17th February 2023 on all streaming platforms 
Headline show at Folklore, Hackney 22nd Feb 2023 

You know what your doing, yes with your life

Clear Eyes is a piece of musical affirmation, a song of encouragement to embrace life in the present, beginning with one's own reflection, while in conversation with the lingering ‘shadows on the shore’. A wider theme emerges in the song's chorus to speak of embracing our natural world while looking into changing landscapes. Environmental themes are ongoing within Phoebe Coco’s music; Clear Eyes has been performed live in a plethora of environments, from climate protests, joining the likes of Massive Attack on the line up on the Extinction Rebellion stage, to stripped back, acapella under the trees to intimate audiences at ‘The Urban Tree Festival’ marking the opening of Phoebe Coco’s musical installation ‘Tree Song Tree Trail’. Natural themes are further reflected in the music video made by award winning director Katya Ganfeld as Phoebe Coco dances deep, enchanted, in the natural landscape. 

Clear Eyes is a new sonic direction for Phoebe Coco, who’s vocals have been likened to Anna Calvi by Radio X’s Sarah Gosling, as she sings the song within into a textural world underpinned by minimalist piano amongst growling bass synths and cello with mellifluous saxophone, flute and electronica involving a host of London's finest musicians. Phoebe Coco’s acapella project has been has been described as ‘haunting and beautiful’ by Robert Macfarlane (BBC 4 Front Row), and includes Phoebe Coco’s family,  her mother and sisters Sophie Wright, Dorothy Wright-Spinks, and Grace Wright-Spinks, who sing the harmonies on the track while Thomas Broda best known for his work with Dana Gavanski plays percussion, and Izz Karpel on saxophone, who plays on the London new jazz scene with emerging bands such as ALULA. 

Clear Eyes has been co-produced by Phoebe Coco and multi-grammy award winning Eduardo De La Paz and mastered by 2022 Mastering Engineer of the year Kevin Tuffy and is the first single in the lead up to Phoebe Coco’s forthcoming EP. 

Phoebe Coco released her debut album ‘My White Horse & I’ in 2020, receiving high critical acclaim and has been played from 6 Music to Radio 2. She is currently studying a music master’s at Goldsmiths university, while continuing her work as a composer scoring for film and live performance. In 2022 she created a musical tree walk titled ‘Tree Song’ across London boroughs, elements of which will feature in the release of the EP as a whole.  


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If you have ever found yourself yearning for an original and haunting Saturday night, Phoebe Coco has just the thing
Tom Robinson


Beautiful young artist 
David Preshaah Hoxton Radio

 Effortlessly compelling.
Adam Walton

Clear Eyes

Earth Dream

RELEASE DATE: FRIDAY 13th October 

A hop, skip and a jump down the rabbit hole into alternative singer-songwriter Phoebe Coco’s ecological EP to sing in the trees and dance on a moon-plane. 



‘Phoebe Coco has just the thing’
Tom Robinson- BBC 6 Music

Effortlessly compelling.
Adam Watson BBC Introducing Wales 


‘Feels like a dark fairytale…’
Sarah Gosling 
London artist and composer Phoebe Coco sets forth with a highly anticipated new EP release I Am Not a Machine this coming October the 13th, with a release show on the same date at Saint Pancras Old Church. 

Born in the rolling hills of The Bannue* and growing up in London, Phoebe Coco seeks living contradictions, the wilderness within the city; the forest within London’s walls. These themes are interwoven in her music, in lilting lyrics and layered landscapes of organic and electronic instrumentation, in a quest to marry the two worlds- the natural and the urban. 


Raised within a singing matriarchy of grandmothers, mothers and sisters, Phoebe Coco experienced live music from an early age. Songs were sung in all settings, from kitchen tables to bohemian parties. Now, on occasion, she invites her family on stage, who sing with her in ‘blood harmonies’- a phrase coined to describe the uncanny, specific and unusual sound of close relations singing together. These unique blood harmonies can be heard throughout the EP. 

As a community and ecological activist, environmental themes are at the foreground of I Am Not a Machine. Phoebe Coco’s writings and performances with trees have been aired by renowned nature author Robert Macfarlane on BBC 4’s Front Row. For the award-winning Urban Tree Festival, she created a project called Tree Song in which she composed, arranged and recorded a series of acapella, folk inspired songs to create a site-specific installation. Elements of this folk heritage are present in her single Machine: ‘ We are singing in a tree, connection fails, try again with your feet’. In an age of expansive development Phoebe Coco sought to “encourage us all to slow down, listen and reflect on how the old ways can meet the new.”


The EP was primarily recorded in Abbey Road and Tostada studios and was co-produced by Phoebe Coco and three times grammy award winning producer Eduardo De La Paz.
The music spans genres, in some places reminiscent of Bat for Lashes and other times Weyes Blood and Kate Bush. This translates live into a seven piece family band, featuring a selection of London's finest players in an amalgamation of complex vocal harmonies, rippling piano, soaring synthesisers, flute, saxophone, guitar and drums. Expect the full works from the full band on the Friday on the 13th October Launch Show. 

Nature also prevails in Phoebe Coco’s acclaimed debut album My White Horse & I (2020), which was championed by Tom Robinson and also achieved local, national and global radio play from BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 2.  She has played stages far and wide, from Shambala Festival to Iceland Airwaves to Sofar Sounds and is well known on the London music scene, with recent shows including well-loved music venues The Old Blue Last, The Sebrite and Peckham Audio. 



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https://open.spotify.com/artist/2eTeVjDnOBzKMTyyRgRfIv
https://music.apple.com/bw/artist/phoebe-coco/465121809

*The Brecon Beacons National Park will refer to itself as Bannau Brycheiniog – or informally as ‘the Bannau’ in reclaiming its Welsh name.

Machine

From the album: [ romantic music plays loudly ]
"reminiscent of Talking Heads at their arty best." The Times, June 2023.

WHAT ARE YOU LIKE?

Bill's set from the last Low Life party at Corsica on October 28th.

BILL BREWSTER | Low Life 2017

Two melody-besotted musicians, from London et Paris.

WHAT ARE YOU LIKE?

Astrid & Alexander

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