[et_pb_section fullwidth="off" specialty="on" background_color="#050505" inner_shadow="off" parallax="off" parallax_method="css"][et_pb_column type="3_4" specialty_columns="3"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left"]<h1>Chloë March</h1><p><img class="alignleft wp-image-10520 size-medium" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/CM3BioPic-300x300.jpg" alt="Chloë March" width="300" height="300" /><em>“a luminous voice, a smoky alto that unfurls like a plume of cigarette smoke, its velvety tone a sensual narcotic... it’s hard not to think of the mythological sirens who used their hypnotic voices to lure sailors ashore”<strong> – </strong></em><strong>textura</strong></p><p>Oft compared to singular artists such as Nina Simone, Beth Gibbons and Elizabeth Fraser, Chloë March follows her own independent path, writing, engineering and producing from her home studio in south-east England. Inhabiting musical territory somewhere between art song and folk, dream-pop and electronica, the ambient and the cinematic, March embraces all these influences to create poetic, emotionally charged and intensely atmospheric songs and soundworlds.</p><p><strong><a title="Facebook" href="https://www.facebook.com/chloemarchmusic" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone wp-image-8763 size-full" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png" alt="Facebook" width="26" height="20" /></a>  <a title="Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/chloejmarch" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone wp-image-8766 size-full" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Twitter.png" alt="Twitter" width="26" height="20" /></a>  <a title="SoundCloud" href="https://soundcloud.com/chloe-march" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone wp-image-8764 size-full" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/SoundCloud.png" alt="SoundCloud" width="26" height="20" /></a>  <a title="Website" href="http://www.chloemarch.co.uk/" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone wp-image-8767 size-full" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png" alt="Website" width="26" height="20" /></a> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label="Divider" color="#ffffff" show_divider="off" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label="Artist Tabs"][et_pb_tab title="Discography"]<h3>Discography</h3><div> </div><div> </div><h4>'Winter Deep' (Single)</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 500px; height: 170px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3424162730/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/" width="300" height="150" seamless=""><a href="http://chloemarch.bandcamp.com/album/winter-deep">Winter Deep by Chloë March</a></iframe><br /> October 2014</p><div> </div><p>The first single from the forthcoming re-release of "Nights Bright Days". ‘Winter Deep’ is a shimmering waltz that opens the album with weightless grace.</p><p>"Nights Bright Days" sees re-release through Hidden Shoal on the 4th of November 2014 and will include a bonus digital EP with six previously un-released tracks.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Politik</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 500px; height: 307px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1181470453/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/" width="300" height="150" seamless=""><a href="http://chloemarch.bandcamp.com/album/politik">Politik by Chloë March</a></iframe><br /> July 2012</p><div> </div><p>Chloë was commissioned to compose a score for the dance-theatre piece <em>realPolitik</em>, choreographed by Julie Hope and performed at the Michaelis Theatre, London in 2008.   <em>realPolitik</em> was a re-working of <em>The Green Table</em>, a tanztheater piece created by German choreographer Kurt Jooss in 1932. <em>The Green Table</em> explored political corruption and the futility and horror of war. This modern version also concentrated on those issues, focusing on modern warfare and personal power-plays between characters.   Inspired by composers such as Walton, Weil and Stravinsky, <em>Politik</em> mixes orchestral drama with intricate and atmospheric electronica and weaves texts from A. E. Housman and Jonathan Swift into the score as spoken word elements. Highly atmospheric and emotionally involving, <em>Politik</em> offers an evocation of the 1930’s era of the original piece with a dynamic contemporary twist.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Garden On The Boulevard</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 500px; height: 340px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=687642755/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/" width="300" height="150" seamless=""><a href="http://chloemarch.bandcamp.com/album/garden-on-the-boulevard">Garden On The Boulevard by Chloë March</a></iframe><br /> November 2009</p><div> </div><p><em>Garden On The Boulevard</em> is a collection of six songs that includes tracks inspired by boulevard cafés and old cameras, lost love and seductive glamour, the dawn chorus, mythical bees, ghosts in the garden and frozen lakes.</p><div> </div><div> </div><h4>Divining</h4><div> </div><p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 500px; height: 540px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=953079602/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/" width="300" height="150" seamless=""><a href="http://chloemarch.bandcamp.com/album/divining">Divining by Chloë March</a></iframe><br /> November 2008</p><div> </div><p>Chloë spent three years writing, recording and producing her second album <em>Divining</em> (2008). Inspired by water and featuring Chloë's trademark poetic lyrics and immersive, cinematic soundworlds, <em>Divining</em> journeys through immersive sensuous soundscapes including a decaying Venice, a lament for Anne Boleyn, nostalgic sunlit reveries, tales of sadistic sculptors, grieving wolves and dark seas of love and loss.</p><p>With the piano at it’s heart and interweaving french horn, strings, marimbas and found-sounds including wind-chimes, paper and grass, this is a meticulously and lovingly-crafted album with a haunting, melancholic undertow.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Bio"]<h3>Biography</h3><p>Chloë March has always lived a life with music at its heart. She grew up as part of a musical family, with both her parents musicians at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Her mother’s daily practice of playing Chopin, Beethoven, Debussy and Schumann pieces on the piano was the soundtrack to her young life, and March began piano lessons aged four. Later, after her parents divorced, songwriting and improvising on the piano became vital to her. Her early life was steeped in classical and jazz, with raids on her siblings’ record collections revealing wondrous new worlds created by Kate Bush, Pink Floyd and Joni Mitchell, which led to the discovery of David Sylvian, the Cocteau Twins and Steve Reich, all of which influenced her own music. Playing in bands with her brother and spending time in his 8-track home studio sparked a passion for recording, particularly for building up soundscapes with the texture and depth of multi-tracking. This early experimentation forged a determination to be in control of her own recording at home, with her current digital set-up only occasionally disrupted by her cat, musicologist partner, and various guest musicians. March’s long, slow discovery of her singing voice has been an odyssey of sorts, gradually finding the confidence and freedom to reveal a jazz-inflected alto that has been variously described as “absolutely charismatic”, “mesmerising” and “luminous”.</p><p>Inspired by myth, history, fairytales, books, film and the sensuality of the natural world, with an obsessive attention to detail and a desire to create intensely atmospheric and emotionally truthful music, March has been recording and producing her own music since she released her second album <i>Divining</i> in 2008. Prior to <i>Divining</i>, she toured the UK and Italy as keyboard player with the band Cousteau, released her first album <i>Snowdrop</i> in 2004, and composed for theatre and dance, including the 40-minute electro-orchestral soundtrack <i>Politik</i>. March has also worked with German ambient producer Jumpel, singing on his 2010 single ‘Edinburgh’ and four songs on his 2013 album <i>Bloc4</i>. Her latest album, and her first for Hidden Shoal, <i>Nights Bright Days</i>, has been four years in the making. It was initially inspired by the night and metamorphosis, and became a cycle of songs as dreams, imbued with images of darkness and light. The album embraces jazz, classical, folk and dream-pop influences, and features guest musicians on bass clarinet, soprano sax and guitar.</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="News"]<h3>News</h3>[catlist name=chloe-march-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Reviews"]<h2>Reviews</h2>[catlist name=chloe-march-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Press Releases"]<h3>Press Releases</h3><p>No press releases yet, sorry!</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Gallery"]<h3>Artist Photos</h3><p> </p>[gallery columns="2" ids="10523,10524,10525,10526"][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Video"]<h3>Music Videos</h3><p>No videos yet, sorry!</p>[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title="Licensing"]<h3>Licensing</h3><p>Chloë March's music is  available for licensing (master & sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. 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