Fetherstone combines jazz, pop, folk and electronica to showcase a very personal, modern expression of her luscious songwriting and sublime vocals. Working as a seasoned jazz vocalist and composer in Australia since 2009, Briana Cowlishaw moved to the UK in 2015 where she started a new musical adventure; Fetherstone. The project is named after Bri’s grandmother (Edith Featherstone/Cowlishaw), a renowned printmaker in Australia, and is what Bri channels all her creative energy through; songwriting, painting, performing and creative play. Fetherstone’s debut EP was produced by UK’s Harry Tarlton (Union J, WarnerUK), followed by 3 singles released between 2018 and 2020, and she is now about to release her first self produced body of work, "Full Turn", due out 1st June 2023.

The album "Full Turn" is a fusion of songs and interludes, capturing the essence and energy of the places where Fetherstone’s stories came from; the frantic streets of London to the quiet and serene bush in the Australian Blue Mountains. Ambitious at heart, Briana Cowlishaw started the journey of learning how to produce and mix her own music 3 years ago during the pandemic lockdown, which has allowed her music to tell raw and personal stories about her connection to nature, finding resilience through darkness, the bumpy and joyful road of being an artist and the cycles of death and rebirth. “Full Turn” was recorded, produced and mixed in a marriage of home studio setups between Sydney, Central Coast NSW and Berlin, alongside Berlin based Aussie singer and producer, Matilda Abraham.

Performances in Brighton, London, Sydney, Melbourne, Prague and Brno have seen Fetherstone utilise a 5 channel vocal loop pedal and beats machine to craft stunning vocal arrangements of her songs, as well as acapella arrangements of covers from her artistic role models, such as Madison Cunningham, Phoebe Bridges, Tom Misch, Lianne La Havas, Emily King, Bon Iver and Joni Mitchell.

Freyja is a compositional storyteller. Her pieces are through-composed journeys; they weave the listener through a series of magical sound-scapes, heavy grooves and unforgettable melodies. Her sound combines an eclectic array of musical genres including but not limited to traditional and contemporary jazz, soul, classical, afro-caribbean styles, funk and reggae.

I grew up in Sydney, moved to the bush to study my body and came back a word wizard.

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The fresh sounds of the monthly mixtapes + the curator mixtape with interviews are unique as they are diverse. 

This archive features creators who are signed, unsigned, unknown, overlooked or about to cook. The labels + artists represent their own genre + show the wild versatility + talent bubbling up through the counterculture of Australia’s lower east side. Most are fresh tracks with the odd exclusive album teaser or a just dropped special version. Sometimes we are the only ones that know about it + sometimes we persuade artists to release tracks just for us. 

We focus on original artists, djs, venues, recording studios,  festivals + those artists supporting the pacific southeast scene along the south coast of New South Wales.

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