Folk Bands and Artists
Rotten Bliss
London
Disturbing dreams and tender imagery haunt the violent, warm & weird visions of London based cellist, vocalist and instrument inventor Jasmine Pender, whose work voyages through noise, drone, folk, blues, and sound collage, featuring powerful and hypnotic vocals set against exploratory cello sounds and home made instruments, with traces of Nico, Laurie Anderson and Arthur Russell.
Inspired by Jacqueline du Pre´s wild physicality, Jasmine started playing classical cello as a teenager, but it was LA’s heavy psych scene that inspired her to plug an electric cello through distortion and delay. Wanting to push beyond the limits of guitar pedals, Jasmine started building her own instruments & effects. Her inventions have been exhibited at London’s National Theatre and aboard the MS Stubnitz and include torch-operated music boxes, wearable light sensors, and a cello-operated cut-up poetry machine.
Rotten Bliss has appeared at two international festivals this year, Do Disturb at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and Supersonic in Birmingham, UK. Jasmine also makes up one half of doom folk duo 11th Hour Adventists with Jowe Head (ex-Swell Maps).
Genre: Freak folk,Psychedelic folk
