Titled Drifting, the band's keenly anticipated long-player will be released on vinyl and digital download on 28th October 2022, building on themes established by critically acclaimed EPs Out to Sea (2018), So Easy (2019) and Isn't it Nice (2020).

The music exhibits kaleidoscopic nods to the past, ranging from Brian Wilson-esque confessionals to laid-back indie pop influenced by the likes of Mac Demarco and Connan Mockasin. A complex weave of nostalgic vocal harmonies, bendy guitar lines and dreamy choruses effortlessly evoke a pastel-coloured landscape of country lanes and coastal vistas, resulting in a patented kind of hammock rock that's unmistakeably Devon and yet impossible to pin down.

With solid support from the likes of BBC 6 Music and BBC Music Introducing throughout the years, the band have developed a devoted following in both the UK and abroad, culminating in their signing to Mexico City-based label PYL Records in 2019. To celebrate the release of Drifting, they will be embarking on a short run of dates in Mexico during October 2022, with extensive UK and EU shows to follow in 2023.

Mae Karthauser is a Devon-based songwriter with a rich, acrobatic voice and a style that is distinctive yet impossible to place. Raised in a musical family and one of seven children, she began learning piano, violin and singing as a child. Her debut performance came in 1990 – aged 5 - when dressed as a policeman she sang her solo on the Abbotts Ann village hall stage.

Alongside multiple tours in France and across Europe she has recorded four albums, one of which was featured in the Flying Frenchies' daredevil circus film "Petit Bus Rouge". She has also been featured on Radio 3, Radio 6 and has performed live on the roof of Television Studios for BBC2's The One Show. 

The year 2020 brought a powerful shift to reality, and as the world plunged into lockdowns, new songs with a new feel were emerging. This time and space allowed Mae to re-invent her sound: a move back to her roots, focusing once again on melody, simplicity and fragile honesty.

With a desire to delve deeper into other melody instruments, she recruited flautist Ronja Schlumberger and cellist Ben Roberts to complement these latest songs. Together this trio have explored the edges of their instruments and expanded their sound palettes in order to bring life to the new material. A broad range of soundscapes and atmospheres conjure an explosive spectrum of qualities made purely with voice and acoustic instrumentation.

Inspired by the likes of Albin De La Simone, Agnes Obel, Joni Mitchell and Nick Drake (and somehow rather unlike any of them) these new songs dance childlike through tender, magical and dark terrain.

The latest album “August” was released on 17th March 2023 to a sell out audience at The Great Hall, Dartington.

Oo La Lume met at Dartington College of Arts, probably in a field. They sing and shout and rein-in sways of folk,
 experimental, blues and soul music with close (and sometimes far) harmony vocals. Their music is crafted by 
three travelling voices, along with their shared love of beautiful, unsettling and stirring harmonies. 


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