terzwerk – 2 July 2020
Composing in the Golden 20s
“I think we should be activists. We should work to change society.”
Interview, Press
Press
Glamcult – June 2020
In conversation with Elaine Mitchener
“Honouring the experiment”
“With every performance I’m searching for a totality of expression, to fully unify and amplify the musical, physical, emotional, and political aspects of each work.”
Interview, Press
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.”
Press, Review
I Care If You Listen – February 2020
5 Questions to Elaine Mitchener
Amanda Cook
“SWEET TOOTH is sonically immersive and experimental in its improvisatory approaches, referencing Kumani singing and sea shanties. It is an intense experience for the players and observers.”
Interview, Press
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.”
Press, Review
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.”
Press, Review
Morning Star – 28 May 2019
‘I am definitely not a jazz singer’
Chris Searle
“Elaine Mitchener is a singer who defies all categories — and that’s the way she likes it, she tells Chris Searle”
Interview
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.”
Press, Review
The Wire – March 2019
Vocal Classics Of The Black Avant Garde – Cafe Oto, London, UK
Bleep x The Wire: The Rolling Calf – Bleep X, London, UK
Biba Kopf
“Digging deep into their own history is exactly the long run up Mitchener and her ensemble need to make their great musical leaps into the future.”
Press, Review