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

Machine

A little tune I made on a hot day with a bad a cold🏖️

Chanan Hanspal feat. Imaani from Incognito. Remix by Kay Suzuki. Percussion original sample by Kakatsitsi Drummers. Fender Rhodes by Jessica Lauren. Released Jan 2009.

Chanan Hanspal - It's only just a garden (Kay Suzuki Remix)

Out on Sharp Attack records on Friday the 6th of December

The night sky is thinning, into daytime 
I see a faint moon still slightly glowing 
My head is still spinning, from here I see at least four empty bottles of wine 
But I’m feeling more or less fine I guess 

Take a pull of a morning cigarette, live life strong, no regrets 
But alcohol does funny things to my head and my head dictates what gets said so
Think I’ve lost half my things, they’re my belongings
As well as a damn good night's sleep, bags under the eyes, what a surprise

I don't know, I don't know
How to describe last night
Because I don’t really remember much 
The missing link, and too much time to think and now it’s all 

Look what the cat dragged in 
Look what the cat dragged in 
Look what the cat dragged in 
Look what the cat dragged in 
Look what the cat dragged in 
Look what the cat dragged in 
Look what the cat dragged in 

The night sky is thinning, a violet rise
First birds fly, dawn is showing 
My head is spinning, hear them breath 
Others sleep, dream to dream, while I lie still

I don't know, I don't know
How to describe last night
Because I don’t really remember much 
The missing link, and too much time to think and now its all 

Look what the cat dragged in 
Look what the cat dragged in 
Look what the cat dragged in 
Look what the cat dragged in 
Look what the cat dragged in 
Look what the cat dragged in 
Look what the cat dragged in 

One sweep of your hand 
All of the colours
Swirl into quicksand
They are washed over 
Time she forgave us 
Just like she promised 
It's been so many years 
I will remember this 


The night sky is thinning, into daytime
My head is spinning

I don't know, I don't know
How to describe that night
Because I don’t really remember much 
The missing link and too much time to think and now it’s all 
Look what the cat dragged in

LOOK WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED IN

Phoebe Coco’s piano is reminiscent of Phillip Glass and undulates with synth bass, drum machines, harmonicas and shakers with the voices of Phoebe Coco and her sisters textured harmonies lulling us throughout.
 Co-produced by Marc Makarov, Vanessa Anne Redd (of Sharp Attack Records) and Phoebe herself, it has been mixed by multi Grammy award winning Eduardo De La Paz, and mastered by Kevin Tuffy.

Different

'Strangeness led us here...’
 The song came to be through a series of dream like scenes, words and frequencies on the air.  A tapestry of undulating harmonies, hums, Phoebe Coco’s voice and three pianos are woven together co-produced with Marc Makavov and mixed by Grammy Award winning Eduardo De Le Paz.

Strangeness

London based, welsh born artist and composer Phoebe Coco released her acclaimed debut album in 2020:  ‘My White Horse & I’ - achieving local, national and global radio play from the likes of BBC 6 Music. She was nominated best female artist of the year in the Radio Wigwam awards. Phoebe Coco currently performs and writes songs for the environment, most specifically trees, in a project titled ‘Tree Song’. She currently has a musical ‘Tree Song Tree Trail’ where her songs can be heard - installed across green spaces of London.  Her recent writings and performances with trees have been aired by renowned author Robert Macfarlane on BBC 4 Front Row. In this performance she sang her vocal arrangement of his ‘Charm-against-Harm’: ‘Heartwood’. 



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Machine

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