The Wire – May 2021
Elaine Mitchener & Guests at Wigmore Hall
Andy Hamilton
“This is an imaginatively conceived recital.”
Review
TDE Promotions – 15 April 2021
Two Live Streams from Wigmore Hall: Trish Clowes and Elaine Mitchener
Tony Dudley-Evans
“This was an outstanding start to the Associate Artists programme with Trish and Elaine, and encouraging evidence of an openness on the part of the Wigmore Hall, and also of the broader issue of the genre fluidity of so much contemporary music.”
The Wire – March 2021
Black Top Presents: Hamid Drake/Elaine Mitchener/William Parker/Orphy Robinson/ Pat Thomas
Some Good News
Otoroku 2xCD/DL
“The work of this unique group shows how free improv can incorporate various genre musics, merging them into a miraculously coherent yet spontaneous whole.”
The Quietus – 24 February 2021
Rum Music For February Reviewed
Jennifer Lucy Allan
“Put The Brakes On’ is a suite of imaginary spaces, the galactic Black Top electronics swirl in while Mitchener putters and yelps like a meteor shower, as Drake, Parker and Thomas’ driving rhythm section erupts.”
Libération – 19 February 2021
Elaine Mitchener et Mats Gustafsson
free speech
Olivier Lam
“Two breaths, two monsters of innovation.”
The Wire – May 2020
SWEET TOOTH at Borealis, Bergen – Norway
Robert Barry
“With a harrowingly physical performance from Mitchener, tightly woven displays of virtuosity from the group, and little more than the highly evocative lighting to set the scene, it is like watching an exorcism: the demon cast out is history.”
JazzWord – August 2019
Météo Mulhouse Music Festival
August 27-31, 2019
Ken Waxman
“The soul that should go with funk was offered up with great effect at the Noumatrouff on Météo’s second night when singer Elaine Mitchener and her London-based septet presented what was billed as vocal classics of the avant garde.”
Jazzwise Magazine – 19 June 2019
Mitchener and Yarde make moves with Jeanne Lee’s legacy at Kings Place
Kevin Le Gendre
“Mitchener also makes a virtue of this ‘out of many threads one fabric’ aesthetic but, crucially, she brings her own character and idiosyncrasies to bear on Lee’s repertoire.”
National Sawdust – March 2019
In Review: MaerzMusik Festival
Steve Smith
“Her performance at Silent Green – an old crematorium converted into a cultural center – hit hard.”