My name is Clara Sanabras I'm originally from Barcelona, now a Londoner. I sing and play ukelele with my band The Real Lowdown, a bunch of ridiculously talented people who happen to be some of the finest jazz musicians in London. In the past I have travelled all around the world performing a wide range of music from medieval & world to Stockhausen, with the Natacha Atlas Acoustic Band and others such as The Harp Consort, Theatre of Voices, Charivari Agréable, Dufay Collective. With these artists I've recorded for Harmonia Mundi USA, Signum Records & Zenobia and I released a solo album of Celtic folksongs for Linn Records a little while ago called The New Irish Girl. Occasionally I also work in Theatre (mainly at the National Theatre & the Globe) and was featured in the Merchant of Venice "The Movie" by director Michael Radford, and in the soundtrack with music by Jocelyn Pook AND I got to be in the same room as Al Pacino for a glorious couple of hours!
I'm now writing and performing my own music and uncontrollably expanding my collection of unusual stringed instruments - charango, ukelele, baroque guitar, cuatro, cavaquinho and other wonderful sound machines which I can't even name yet, because I don't know what they are. I love them all equally. I also love producer and composer Harvey Brough with whom I teamed up to record my latest musical offering, an album of songs from here and there, some remembered from my childhood, some from favourite old films, some original. It's called Clara & The Real Lowdown, it's on the Smudged Discs label, and you'll soon be able to buy it online and hopefully get it in the shops too.
Influences
Bobby Gentry, Billy Strayhorn, Bjork, Cocteau Twins, Ella Fitzgerald, Doris Day, Madeleine Peyroux, Natacha Atlas, Paolo Conte, Marisa Monte, Caetano Veloso, Joao Gilberto, Duke Ellington, Randy Newman, Howling Bells, Steve Ashley, Robert Wyatt, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Alison Kraus & Union Station, Dolly Parton, Dorothy Parker, Jeanette Winterson, Indira Varma, Joan Manel Serrat, Lluis Llach, Federico Garcia Lorca, Ricardo Montalbán, Pablo Neruda, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Mervyn Peake, Lars Von Trier frida Kahlo and Rita Hayworth. Enjoy the original version of "Put the blame on Mame" from the movie GILDA below. Sung by Anita Ellis:
THE REAL LOWDOWN: Dylan Bates (violin), Roy Dodds (drums & percussion), Andy Hamill (bass & harmonica), Mike Outram (electric guitar), Tom Arthurs (flugelhorn), Harvey Brough (guitar, voice, keyboards), Clara Sanabras (voice and ukes)
GUESTS have included Alec Dankworth (bass), Anthony Kerr (vibes), Chris Montague (electric guitar), Clare Kenny (bass), Julian Ferraretto (violin), Andrew Ranken (drums) & Ife Tolentino (acoustic guitar) For UK press/radio enquiries, please contact Rosie Wilby at Piranha PR www.piranha-pr.co.uk or www.myspace.com/piranhapr. Tel: 02082991928
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hello! Thanks for your add! Who built your charango? I'm out, jamming tonight, with Georgian musicians. Next week I'll be in London. Do you perform by any chance? greets~!
