I’ve been thinking about music and its place in the world. I’ve been thinking about artistic space and our willingness to occupy it. And I’ve been thinking, again, about success, what it means and to whom I ask for validation of it. These aren’t new thoughts exactly, but they are thoughts I have taken greater root this new year.

It feels important to say out loud that I am not competing with or against any other musician for your attention. I refuse to submerge my artistic practice in the barren, cold waters of marketing speak. Branding is for cows. And while of course I want to grow my audience, to reach further and farther, to travel and make new connections through my songs, what is meaningful to me is the depth more than the breadth. 

Experience and practice, the love of those this music has reached, the support of other musicians, have gifted me a perspective that brooks less doubt about the value of what I do these days. This is a kind of success. Thank you to everyone who nourishes me. 

My work for this year, hand in hand with the exciting and messy business of releasing a new album, is to more deeply embrace gratitude and practice some radical acceptance; to take a look around and realise this may be as good as it gets, and know that it is enough. The work continues. 

My new album 'To Everything a Season' is out on 11 October. 

Big love

The Magic Lantern / Jamie x 

"Excellent, intriguing and compelling, a man to watch"
-The Guardian

"Something very, very special"
- Lauren Laverne, BBC 6 Music

"Gorgeous, beautiful, this stopped me in my tracks. Slightly surreal, in all the right ways" - Jamie Cullum, BBC Radio 2

"Every now and again you come across a piece of music that will completely take your breath away. It might not be instant, but it will. The Magic Lantern’s ‘Holding Hands’ is one of those pieces of music. 8/10"
- Fortitude Magazine

"Creating something truly mesmerizing and incredibly unique. Jamie’s ability to combine jazz and folk into something ethereal and is undeniably spellbinding. Fans of Grizzly Bear and Chet Baker will feel at home here."
- The Vinyl District



www.the-magic-lantern.co.uk
Contact: jamiefdoe@yahoo.com

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Independent record label & music publishing. The exlosive sound of Today's scene. Est 2003. 

Home of  CALIBRO 35, HANNAH WILLIAMS, TANIKA CHARLES, MARTHA HIGH & OSAKA MONAURAIL, THE TIBBS, DOJO CUTS, THIRD COAST KINGS, NICK PRIDE & The PIMPTONES, The LIBERATORS, TRIO VALORE, BABY CHARLES, SOULSHAKER & Let's BOOGALOO comps, ITALIAN SPIDERMAN soundtrack, DIPLOMATS OF SOLID SOUND...

"One of the best and most consistent labels on the 'Deep Funk' scene. So many great and important releases!" Dj Snowboy

"In a sorry musical world where weekly I subject my poor ears to the latest tawdry releases, it's always a treat to spot a 45 from Record Kicks. Not only something I might like, Something I know I will" Mark Lamarr (BBC 2 / MTV)

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Based in London and Berlin, Let Spin are a cutting edge post-jazz quartet who have been making waves in the UK and European jazz scenes since their formation in 2012. The band comprises guitarist Moss Freed (Union Division; Spike Orchestra), saxophonist Chris Williams (Led Bib; Sarathy Korwar), bassist Ruth Goller (Skylla; Melt Yourself Down) & drummer Finlay Panter (Beats & Pieces Big Band), resulting in an explosive mixture of stylistic influences. Their collaborative way of working and focus on improvisation leads to incendiary live performances, allowing the music to venture into territories that are unforeseen even to the musicians themselves.

Saxophone and clarinet player,  bandleader and writer/arranger

Three Cane Whale is a multi-instrumental trio, playing acoustic miniatures which draw influence from folk and minimalist music. Alex Vann (mandolin, bowed psaltery, bouzouki, banjo, chimes, citarra, music box) is mandolinist with Spiro (Real World Records). Pete Judge (trumpet, harmonium, dulcitone, lyre, rotary-valve tenor horn, glockenspiel) plays trumpet for Get The Blessing (BBC Jazz Award-winners) and for the duo Eyebrow. Paul Bradley (acoustic guitar, harp, tin whistle) is the man behind legendary Bristol band Organelles, and is currently touring with Scottish Dance Theatre.

Three Cane Whale's eponymous debut album (Idyllic, 2011)was recorded live (by Spiro's Jon Hunt) in an eleven hour shift in an eighteenth-century Bristol church in 2010, and was chosen by Cerys Matthews as one of her Top Five Modern Folk Albums. 

Their second album, Holts And Hovers (Field Notes, 2013), was recorded live (by the English Acoustic Collective's Rob Harbron) in 20 different locations in Dorset, Wales, London, Somerset and Bristol, including churches and chapels, kitchens and hilltops, a greenwood barn and an allotment shed. It was fRoots Editor's Choice Album Of The Year, and chosen by The Observer as one of its "Hidden Gems of 2013". 

'Perfect' (Cerys Matthews, BBC 6Radio)
'The aroma of muddy leaves and old nettles is almost tangible. A delight' (The Observer)
'Ever-inventive' (Fiona Talkington, BBC Radio 3's Late Junction)
'Elegant and atmospheric. An impressively original debut' (Robin Denselow, The Guardian)
'Unutterably lovely ' (Venue)
‘This trio hoe their own row, and do so very successfully, creating singular, contemplative and seductive moods and atmospheres. Wonderful’ (fRoots)
'Bristol's experi-folk trio build works of minimal instrumental beauty to eccentric, uplifting and spellbinding effect' (Time Out)
'A quiet gentle beauty. Mesmerising" (Bristol Evening Post)
'Think of the way light refracts through a raindrop. Intricate, atmospheric and simply beautiful. Four stars" (R2 magazine)
'As full of texture, colour and chaos as a pile of autumn leaves the moment the wind hits. Five stars' (Folk Radio)
'A fantastic record deserving of all kinds of exposure' (The Local)
'An instrumental masterpiece. Spellbinding, inventive and uniquely uplifting' (Rhythm and Booze)
'A pristine purity of vision. Very lovely' (Listomania)
'Minimalism, simplicity and lucidity. Three Cane Whale tick all my boxes for instrumental music' (LiveMusicFM)



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