Sofa Salon is the monthly Berlin living room concert series presenting the best singer-songwriters and poets from Berlin, Germany and further afield. Email berlinsofasalon [at] googlemail.com for hosting or performing enquiries.

Hello there!
I am a singer/songwriter/producer. My style is a gentle blend of Folk and Blues as well as some synthpop, german children songs and classical film scores sometimes. There can be german lyrics, french lyrics and a lot of english lyrics. If you want to find out more, come to one of my concerts or visit my website! :-)

NEW LP 'TAKE THE SUN AND BURN THE EARTH' COMING SOON 

Singer/multi instrumentalist from england, now in Berlin.
Songs about abandoned hospitals, hyperextended summer nights, and old haunts.

Podcast interviews with fellow players  mainly by Dave Graney. Players Please. 
Rock band.Dave Graney (vox/gtr) and Clare Moore(drums/vibes/keys)  were in the Moodists-post punk Melbourne band.Then Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes. 

Graney and Moore have been involved in making of roughly 30 albums. Also about 7 digital releases, four or five albums as part of other peoples bands, several compilations, two solo albums from Clare Moore as well as her side projects The Dames and The Routines. Four feature film soundtracks. Dave Graney released a book about his music life in 2011, "1001 australian nights" and a more personal book (more focused on all the jobs the took to be a musician) in 2018 called WORKSHY. A second book of lyrics spanning the years 1980-2023 called THERE HE GOES WITH HIS EYE OUT came out in 2023. 
2024 sees an album come out on Classic Jewel case Compact Disc called (strangely)(emotional).

Mark Mulholland is a travelling singer, guitarist, songwriter and producer, whose musical peregrinations have taken him from his native Scotland through most of Europe and North America, via Haiti and Mali, where he lived for several years, and now to France. Always combining his solo career with various bands and projects including Two Dollar Bash, an acoustic folk/country/blues group with whom he has recorded 4 albums, he is also in demand as a session musician, having made recordings over the years with Nikki Sudden, Captain Sensible, Toumani Diabate, Tony Allen and many other artists, and as a producer and engineer, producing two albums for Glitterbeat Records, as well as recent work with Rachid Taha, Tony Rose and Afel Bocoum, whose new album,”Lindé” he co-produced with Paul Chandler, Damon Albarn and Nick Gold. His influences include Celtic folk, country, reggae, blues, jazz, rock and punk, and beside acoustic and electric guitar, he also turns his hand to other stringed instruments including banjo, mandola, bouzouki, bass and lap steel guitar.

Mark’s songs have been covered on albums in the USA (Barleyjuice, Sharla June and the Mayhaws), the UK (George Stott) and the Czech Republic (The Lazy Pigs) and also feature in the live repertoire of a wide variety of artists throughout Europe, America and beyond. As well as multiple albums with bands, he has released two solo albums, “The Devil on the Stairs” (2008) and “The Cactus and the Dragon” (2011), both well-received by critics. 2012 saw the release of “Waiting for the Storm”, a collaboration with former dEUS guitarist Craig Ward and double-bassist Hannes d’Hoine, chosen by the Telegraph as one of “five summer treats of British folk music”, and rated by R2 magazine as “one of the best albums of 2012”.

After years of splitting his time between Berlin, Paris and other European cities, Mark moved to Haiti in 2010, where he worked with young local bands in a cultural centre in Port-au-Prince, as well as collaborating with many established Haitian artists, including the world-renowned writer, painter and actor Frankétienne, with whom he composed, recorded and produced an album of spoken word and music called “Chaophonies, released in 2014, followed by an album recorded in San Francisco with two long-time musical partners, Rusty Miller (Jackpot, Cake, Chuck Prophet, Jason Lytle) and James Finch Jr., under the name Rummage, entitled “Somewhere Else”, released in May 2016. Just before leaving Haiti, Mark played in a project with the legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, along with Sanba Zao and other top Haitian percussionists, bassist/keyboard player Jean-Philippe Dary, and electronic musician Olaf Hund, and the resulting album, produced by Mark, was released in June 2016 by Glitterbeat Records under the name the Afro Haitian Experimental Orchestra, which reached no.5 in the Transglobal World Music Charts.

In September 2014, Mark and his wife moved to Bamako, Mali, where he worked with many of the fantastic musicians there. In 2016, he produced “Kidal”, the 5th album of the Malian Tuareg band Tamikrest for Glitterbeat. Together with Toumani Diabate, Mark founded the Festival Acoustik Bamako, an international music festival in the Malian capital in January 2016, which continued for 3 successful editions until Mark left Mali. The project with Hannes d’Hoine and Craig Ward expanded to include the brothers Yacouba and Baba Sissoko, under the name Alba Griot Ensemble, blending Celtic and mandingue influences. The band recorded an album with Grammy-winning producer David Odlum, which features guest appearances by Tony Allen, Madou Sidiki Diabate, Pamela Badjogo and Toumani Diabate. On its release in 2018 by Riverboat Records, the album reached No 2 in Roots Music Report’s World Music Chart. Before leaving Mali, Mark wrote and recorded 2 albums with the young Malian singer Kankou Kouyate, the first of which was released in December 2019 to international critical acclaim. In March 2019, Damon Albarn invited Mark to participate in the “Africa Express, the Circus” concert in London, where he collaborated with artists including Albarn, Imarhan, Kinshasa Sound System, Warren Ellis and Nick Zinner. In January 2020, Mark was selected for a prestigious showcase performance at the Folk Alliance Conference in New Orleans. In summer 2022, he was invited for an artist's residency in Niamey, Niger, where he recorded and performed with various Nigerien musicians, and he has also started a collaboration with Mozambican legend Chico Antonio.

Mark’s new album, « Revolutions go in Circles », released in summer 2022 on his new label Ports of Call Music, was recorded in Bamako, Paris, Berlin and New York, and features collaborations with many of the musicians he has worked with in recent years, including Toumani Diabate, Tony Allen, Yacouba SIssoko, Vincent Bucher & Baba MD.

Marta is an eclectic Italian songwriter, singer and instrumentalist and in the last ten years has been touring and collaborating with many international musicians and songwriters.
She began singing with the Australian-Italian group Micevice, and since 2004 is a  key member of the John Parish band.
Well known for her collaboration with the Australian songwriter Hugo Race in their outfit Sepiatone (Desvelos IT, Minty Fresh rec. Usa), she's a founding member of the international collective Songs with Other Strangers together with the  songwriters John Parish, Hugo Race, Steve Wynn, Stef Kamil Carlens, Cesare Basile and Manuel Agnelli.


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