Jo Mango

Bio:

It’s safe to say Scottish multi-instrumentalist and singer songwriter Jo Mango has had an incredible few years. Since 2007 she has brought her unique collection of instruments and sounds to collaborations with luminaries such as Vashti Bunyan, David Byrne and Devendra Banhart in venues from the Carnegie Hall in New York to a greenhouse in Glasgow. She has co-written beautiful songs and collaborated on tours and performances with Lambchop guitarist William Tyler (aka Paper Hats), Vetiver, Adem, Idlewild’s Roddy Woomble and Richmond Fontaine to name but a few.

Her rising acclaim has rested on an unusual mix of talented multi-instrumentalism, haunting childlike vocals, exceptional lyricism and a talent for mashing unique collections of accompanying sounds – from African finger pianos to electronic autoharps mixed with traditional acoustic guitar and harmonium. Her debut album Paperclips and Sand was released in 2006 on her own label - Lo-Five Records. That year she and her band played shows across the globe beginning with a live session on USA tastemaker Nic Harcourt’s KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic radio program, continuing with concerts in LA, New York, Australia, a sell-out show in Tokyo followed by numerous appearances at South By South West in Austin, Texas. She appeared on MTV Australia and Scottish Television in session on BBC2’s Rapal as well as performing live on BBC Radio 2 (as Good Morning Sunday’s featured artist), the BBC World Service and BBC Radio Scotland..

On returning home in 2007, Jo’s first single My Lung was voted by BBC Radio 2 listeners as Single of the Week on the Radcliffe and Maconie show. Gigs followed into 2008 and tours with Vashti Bunyan in whose band Jo is a mainstay.

Since then, Jo has been working on new material with Adem Ilhan (Fridge and Adem). Watch out for that this year!

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Member Since:

December 02, 2005

Members:

Jo Mango - vocals, guitar, kalimba, omnichord, squeezebox, other various random instruments
Jim Mango - bass, vocals, chime bar, omnichord
Calum Scott - harmonium, monome, laptop, shruti box, omnichord, cajon, production and engineering
Alan Peacock - vocals, guitar, glock, etc.

Influences:

On the CD player mostly these days are Vashti Bunyan, Joanna Newsom, Hanne Hukkelberg, Serafina Steer, Regina Spektor, Kaouding Cissoko, The Paper Hats, George Brecht, Vetiver, Adem, Alvin Lucier, Karen Dalton, Andrew Bird, Grizzly Bear, Gareth Dickson, Olof Arnalds, Okkervil River, Old Harp Singers of Tennessee, the list goes on and on and on and on!

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“Jo Mango is uniquely gifted, as a musician and as a performer. She writes the most beautiful songs and her sense of fun in life has made this last year that I have been on the road with her a luminous one. Kind, original, musical and clever, I know Jo will go far.“ Vashti Bunyan

Record Label:

Unsigned