The Quietus – 12 November 2024
Elaine Mitchener on Curating This Year’s Deep Time Festival
Vanessa Ague
We caught up with Mitchener in advance of the event to talk about her curatorial perspective.
Interview, Press
Press
Worldwide Magazine by We Jazz – August 2024
Solo Throat | Elaine Mitchener
OTOROKU
Gabriel Bristow
” (…) it is both the epitome of a solo record and somehow simultaneously its undoing.”
Press, Review
Uncut – August 2024
ELAINE MITCHENER Solo Throat
Jack Milner
“(…) this is the aural equivalent of gazing into a crystal-clear night sky.”
Press, Review
Boomkat – June 2024
Elaine Mitchener: Solo Throat
“It’s mischievous, transformative material that helps bring lively, confounding poetry into new dimensions. Anyone who’s interested in all the many forms of sound poetry will find a huge amount of inspiration right here.”
Review
The Wire – June 2024
Elaine Mitchener – Solo Throat
Otoroku DL/LP
Daniel Glassman
“unknown tongue” might be the most impressive piece of all. Multitracking her vocals, she conjures up a drama of communication beyond language: her two characters seem to meet, argue, scheme, get frustrated, hit an impasse, muddle through, and finally begin to play and harmonise with each other.
Press, Review
Rad Review of Gigs – 28 May 2024
Elaine Mitchener, Cafe Oto, London
Adrian Cross
“The evening culminated in Mitchener bringing together all the night’s musicians and all of them wheeling into free jazz reaching a crescendo from Mitchener that shook Oto’s golden ceiling filaments and had its audience screaming in delight. Powerful, indelible, of an ilk no stranger to Oto regulars, but utterly mesmerising and original and even disturbing for any crossing its threshold for the first time.”
Press, Review
The Quietus – 14 May 2024
Elaine Mitchener: Solo Throat
Vanessa Ague
“Mitchener’s greatest strength on the album is her ability to say a lot with very little. She reminds us that poetry is not just words, it is something to feel deep within the body.”
Press, Review
Financial Times – 13 May 2024
Elaine Mitchener delivers poetry and free jazz in a riotous London show
Mike Hobart
“The first night of performance artist/vocalist Elaine Mitchener’s two-day Cafe Oto residency delivered articulate spoken-word, shapeshifting sonics and intense free jazz.”
Press, Review
petermargasak – 13 May 2024
British Vocalist Elaine Mitchener Busts it Wide Open on Solo Throat
Peter Margasak
“I wasn’t prepared for the remarkable focus, ingenuity, and invention behind her incredible new album Solo Throat (Otoroku), in which her vast oeuvre of extended techniques, literary inspiration, and improvisational thinking come together into something far more profound and jaw-dropping than the sum of its parts.”
Press, Review