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Jo Mango

General Info

  • Genre: Acoustic / Folk / Indie

    Location Glasgow, Un

    Profile Views: 146678

    Last Login: 10/20/2012

    Member Since 12/2/2005

    Website www.jomango.co.uk

    Record Label Unsigned

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    With her wee suitcase packed full of kalimbas, omnichords and a shruti box, Jo Mango has been quietly sneaking her music around the world – appearing on stage with incredible musicians such as David Byrne, Devendra Banhart, Vashti Bunyan, and Coco Rosie. She has played at venues ranging from the Carnegie Hall in New York to a Greenhouse in Glasgow. She has also co-written songs with Teenage Fanclub, Admiral Fallow and Roddy Woomble. But this year, Jo Mango returns to the UK music scene playing her own songs once again. She is fresh from appearances at Fence's Homegame festival, onscreen in David MacKenzie's new film You Instead, and has just finished an exquisite new album produced by nu-folk genius Adem. .. .. ..Oh! And if you want to subscribe to the Jo Mango mailing list, just whack your email address in the box:.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...and dont worry,.. its non spam,.. non evil .. and you can unsubscribe anytime!
  • 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!
  • Sounds Like

    .. "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..

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  • Flavio do Cavaco

      Olá! Obrigado por poder ser seu amigo! Vc gosta de samba?Quando puder, dê uma conferida no meu repertório de samba... Tudo de bom! Abraços! Flavio 

    11 months ago
  • Wallpaper shoes

     Thank you for precious friendship. Hope you will always have the right shoe.

    1 year ago
  • Glorious Din

       I will wake up and go now, and go to the forest, to a cabin build there of clay and straw, nine fruit trees I will plant there, a hive for the honey bee, and live alone, in the bee-loud mountains.  

    2 years ago
  • sumair

    Amazing !!! Jo best of luck .........

    2 years ago
    • Jo Mango

      Thank you Sumair! Very kind :)

      2 years ago
  • Tadanori KANNO


    Hello.



    Limited Edition CD is now available for pre-order.

    And immediate download of album.

    http://canno.bandcamp.com/


    Please listen.

    Thanks.



    Tadanori KANNO

    2 years ago
  • Sabrina GIbbs



    How are you?

    2 years ago
  • S N D J - NEW TRACKS AV…

    BRAND NEW TRACKS AVAILABLE!
    Thanks for the continued support and look forward to reading your comments! :)

    2 years ago
  • Mary E. Beane




    how are u?

    2 years ago
  • Mary E. Beane



    Hey,how do you do?

    2 years ago
  • Katherine G. Fox


    Hello,How do you do?

    2 years ago
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Bio:



“Immensely charming…” - The Times



“Her gentle voice holds a pure innocence akin to Bjork…” - The Sunday Mail



Jo Mango’s second album Murmuration is set for release on 5th November 2012 via Olive Grove Records. This wonderfully wistful album draws upon Jo’s adventures whilst travelling the world as a member of Vashti Bunyan’s band and her experiences over the last few years completing a Doctorate in Musicology plus her collaborations with David Byrne (Carnegie Hall, NY 2007), Devendra Banhart, Coco Rosie, Teenage Fanclub (Baby Lee, 2011), and Admiral Fallow (Beetle in the Box, 2012) amongst others.


As a lyricist Jo displays the kind of range more often attributed to an accomplished short story writer, equally assured when following the flight patterns of starlings on “The Black Sun” as she is asking difficult questions in the aftermath of a stabbing in Kingdom. Yet, despite the depth of her subject matter, Jo’s music is filled with light; light that comes from her extraordinary ability to paint vivid and enquiring images of the natural world with a voice as delicate and complex as the myriad environments it describes. This beguiling mix is what sets Jo apart in a crowded field of folk-influenced singer-songwriters.


The album was recorded and produced by Adem Ilhan (Adem, Sliver Columns) who became a good friend of Mango’s during their time on the road together, performing in collaboration with Vetiver, Juana Molina and Vashti Bunyan in the Zero Degrees of Separation tour and with David Byrne, who curated Welcome to Dreamland, the sell-out show at Carnegie Hall in 2007. What began as a demo EP recording, soon became the beginnings of an album, as the talents of both multi-instrumentalists combined to produce something too special for only four songs. Three years later the album was finally completed, featuring Jo’s trademark combination of guitar, kalimba, omnichord and

Jo’s debut album Paperclips and Sand received high praise from the press and her peers. Vashti Bunyan hailed her as “uniquely gifted” whilst The List described the album as “beguiling”, she even won over Rock Sound, with the magazine saying that Jo’s debut “will leave audiences entranced”.


These days it can often feel that albums are born in an instant and consumed twice as quickly. Murmuration is one of those rare records that places a gentle but insistent demand on the listener to stop and consider.

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