Maaike your voice sounds like an academic opera with a wide range and exhilarating timbre

Produced, arranged and mixed by Matteo Galesi; played by Larry Mindel, Mateo Galesi and Joao Silva (strings).

Single released 11th June 2021

PRS Tunecode 462416CP

Whisper The World Away

Growing can be hard. Because part of you, burrowed down in sorrow says ‘it’s warm here’. But each day you push against it, you feel it’s power fade.

Fading

Winter is the newest blue
Pins and needles biting blue
Strumming slow the ice guitar
Raynaud’s fingertips on cue

Winter is the newest blue
Magpie wing the night shift blue
Creases cross the freezing scar
Blizzards blow the snowdrift skew

Winter is the newest blue
Evening loch lamenting blue
Older than the distant star
The wind that pulls the ripples through

Winter is the newest blue
Sleeping dormer windows blue
Final like a double bar
Bleakest, blackest, boundless hue

Winter Is The Newest Blue

The third single from our Weather Balloons EP, Bluer Skies highlights the cracks in the consumer dream of the 1950s.

SONG CREDITS
Words and Music: Dora Lachaise and Jonni Slater
Produced by: Jonni Slater
Recorded at 79Wave Studios
Mixed by: Jonni Slater
Mastered by: Nick Cooke

Dora Lachaise: Vocals, acoustic guitar
Jonni Slater: Vocals, keyboards
Ian Bostic: Drums

LYRICS:
Bluer skies and golden days
It’s the promise that we made
She was dressed in white
I didn’t hesitate

Bluer skies and glistening waves
His sunburnt skin and aftershave
Forever in the sun
Life had just begun

At times I dream of you
You almost become real
You dive into the blue
You're picture perfect
I never want to see you fade

A sky-blue dress
A permanent wave
A brand new home with microwave
A garden out the back
Paint over the cracks

Bluer skies, I keep the receipts 
Come home late
They’re all asleep
Our smiling family
Just like on TV

At times I dream of you...

Bluer skies never lured me away

Weather Balloons

Dora Lachaise and Jonni Slater - Bluer Skies

Chimera - Demo

I Feel Old - Demo

SIOEOTO

'Born Before the Wind' album launch concert
Oliver's Jazz Bar, Greenwich, London, 21 March 2017

Audio: Jonathan Penny
Photo: Lidia Crisafulli (https://www.lidiacrisafulli.com/)

Musicians:
Maaike Siegerist (voice, guitar)
Jonni Slater (piano, keys)
Ron Phelan (double bass)
Howard Felton (trombone)
Catherine Rudie (vocals)
Nicola Tagoe (flute)

The album is available from: http://www.maaikesiegerist.com/

Live at Oliver's Jazz Bar

A song about loneliness and social isolation. A song for the invisible souls who no-one notices.

Angella Corinna Demo 2005

Isolation

I Never Came Close

John

Maaike was born in Schiedam, a Dutch city in the shadow of Rotterdam’s oil refineries. Feeling inspired after a songwriting retreat in Scotland, she moved to the UK to study music. She recorded her debut album, Born Before the Wind, in Bath Spa, and now lives in Bristol.

Maaike writes story-telling songs about travels, remarkable people, and big issues. Her previous single, ‘Call of the Last Wildcat,’ is a charity single for the Scottish Wildcat, the UK’s most endangered animal.

Her new recordings are musically inspired by classic jazz. As a teenager, Maaike took guitar lessons from an elderly gentleman, who had never heard of contemporary artists like Oasis or Sheryl Crow. Instead, he taught her to play jazz standards from the Real Book.

‘The colourful chords and memorable melodies have always stayed with me’, Maaike says. ‘And that’s how I came to listen to phenomenal performers like Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole. They were real, no pitch-correction or other tricks. That’s what I’m going for as well.’

Maaike’s music has been played on local and national radio. She’s also won the songwriting competitions of Glastonbury FM and University of the West of England.

“Delicate vocal, poised production, gorgeous chord changes”
– Tom Robinson, BBC Radio 6 Music

“A voice smoother than Dutch chocolate” 
– Music Eye UK

“Maaike’s voice is butterflies-inducing.”
– Neil March, Trust the Doc

All music is available from: https://maaikesiegerist.bandcamp.com/

Live at Oliver's Jazz Bar

Maaike Siegerist

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