BROOKE SHARKEY releases a new ablum ´WANDERING HEART´ with a launch at the prestigious JAZZ CAFE London 27th October

‘She’s sure to stop you in your tracks…Really is so beautiful…’ Radio 6- Mary Anne Hobbs

After a colourful and drifting upbringing between France and England, Brooke has developed the intense narrative style which has won her admiration from the likes of Mary Anne Hobbs (BBC6 Music). Busking since the age of 16 around Europe and the UK, most specifically in London, France and Italy these last 5 years, her music influences are broad but . Her songs challenge the boundaries of love tell stories of personal encounters, reflecting on the places the last 2 years have taken her physically and emotionally. Brooke taps into topics that many people think, or feel but don´t allow themselves to talk about and she finds hope and power through honesty in her writing all the while celebrating human emotion with its many flaws, lack of understanding, imagination and vulnerability.

´Your tomorrow´ speaks of our feelings that others do better than us and find things easier. We get lost in admiration all the while forgetting the someone is looking straight at us and we can´t see it.

´Wandering heart´ is an achingly intimate conversation between a couple about allowing each other to explore open love, it ends in a musical chaos which reflects inner turmoil or the release of self trying the deal with such matters.

´Faces´ is written in French and English, and breaks any conventional song writing structure, all the while keeping people on a thread. It speaks of the fear of seeing people you haven´t´ seen for many years, and the questions it brings up about one´s own life.

Brooke takes her musical influences from old French music, folk, and contemporary pop/rock. These songs were written about London life and summers travelling along the coasts of France and Italy with long term collaborator Adam Beattie (www.adambeattie.com) who plays guitar in Brooke´s band but who is also a singer/songwriter in his own right.

This album was recorded at One Cat studios in Brixton, produced by Brooke Sharkey, and co-arranged with her band members, french horn player Jez Houghton, Sam pert on drums, Adam Beattie on guitar and Double bass.

This is Brooke´s second full length album and will be touring the UK and Europe in October and November.

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PRESS

‘Brooke has an incredible voice, amazing control and Grace’ – The Observer

“It’s an aural treat!” - Time out London

‘Irresistible music’ with ‘..a vocal performance that seems to switch effortlessly between lithely melodic and fiery’ – Folk Radio UK.

 Patrick Derloin - Fip Radio France - ‘Un ressenti qui traverse le corps et l´âme et on ne se pose pas d´avantage de question, le disque reste dans la tête et dans le cœur, il est au dessus des autres…’

English translation: ´ An unquestionable sensation that runs through the body and soul, the music stays in the head and in the heart, it is above all others..´

Fresh beats-An introspective sound adorned with emotional vocals and sliding string sections that create a tense air of melancholy that few others can master so simply and so elegantly, Brooke Sharkey oozes a creativity that radiates emotion. She is a woman who bleeds artistry´