The single 'My Lung' is out now! Its has two beautiful b-sides with it as well: Evaporated by Ben Folds, which Jo recorded live on KCRW with Nic Harcourt and a wonderful and very rare demo, Another Feather.

My Lung: Avaliable on iTunes

And then there is Jo's wonderful debut album...

Paperclips & Sand: Avaliable from
Jo Direct / Amazon.co.uk / iTunes

Both of these records are avaliable on most other download services including emusic, Napster and Rhapsody along with CDs avaliable internationally either through Amazon or straight from Jo (with free shipping!).

“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

Scottish singer songwriter Jo Mango has recently returned home to Glasgow from an exhausting year of accomplishment, traversing the entire globe. She has played for David Byrne (Talking Heads) in front of a sell-out crowd at the Carnegie Hall; found hundreds of new fans in Japan and then moved on to Texas where she played for the thousands of Music Industry personnel at South By South West.

She collaborated on performances with cult new-folk figures Vashti Bunyan, Devendra Banhart, as well as more established folkies Donovan, Eddi Reader and many more.

It's all a long way from the tiny record label she, her twin brother and manager started from her front room three years ago. For in April 2004 she founded Lo-Five Records and released her first record, The Antidote EP (**** The List), which received airplay across the BBC Radio network. Her absolutely beautiful debut album Paperclips and Sand followed on in March 2006 and is now on sale internationally, to great reviews.

Early in 2006, after a year of fantastic festival appearances, where she famously duetted with Willy Vlautin of Richmond Fontaine (“No woman could have a better voice“), word of Jo's strange and varied instrumental talents reached Vashti Bunyan who, on the lookout for a flautist / keyboardist / concertina / kalimba player, asked Jo to join her band on tour.

Since April 2006 Jo has been touring extensively, as the mainstay of Vashti's band, throughout North America, Europe, Australia and Japan. At home in the UK she also featured in the extremely unusual collaborative spectacle, the Zero Degrees of Separation tour, becoming an integral part of the band featuring Adem, Juana Molina, Vetiver and Vashti herself. This culminated in a Carnegie Hall show in New York in February, curated by the legendary David Byrne.

In the last year, Jo has also appeared as a solo artist playing shows across the globe, beginning with a session on Nic Harcourt's show 'Morning Becomes Eclectic' on Santa Monica's KCRW.

On returning from SXSW, Jo's single 'My Lung' was voted Single of the Week on Radio 2's MacConie and Radcliffe show.

Jo is currently in the studio working on a new record - produced by Adem - and is expanding her label and management to encompass the world of talent that she has been unearthing in Scotland and beyond. She is also in the midst of studying at The University of Glasgow for a PhD.

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