Sound UK – 18 January 2021
20 artists for 20 years
20 Artists for 20 Years brings you exclusive insights into the extraordinary artists in Sound UK’s life.
Interview, Press
Press
Point of Departure – December 2020
A column by
Bill Shoemaker
Diving into Elaine Mitchener’s career.
Interview, Press
Die Zeit – 8 July 2020
The voice of the revolution
Hannah Schmidt
On the way to a really new kind of music: The British singer and composer Elaine Mitchener
Interview, Press
terzwerk – 2 July 2020
Composing in the Golden 20s
“I think we should be activists. We should work to change society.”
Interview, 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