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<h1>Chloë March</h1>
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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.

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<h3>Discography</h3>
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<h4>To Set The River On Fire</h4>
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February 2015
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The new EP release To Set The River On Fire opens a window into a new universe of possibilities: Hidden Shoal artists remixing each other’s music. In the first of what we hope will become an ongoing series, English dream-pop artist Chloë March takes on a track from the latest album by German experimentalist Markus Mehr – and vice versa. Listening to ‘Buoy (Chloë March Remix)’ feels like watching Chloë March creep tentatively into Markus Mehr’s shadowy soundworld, casting her radiant voice around the room like torchlight. While on ‘Ember (Markus Mehr Remix)’, the original’s beautifully simple arrangement for voice and piano is trapped within a hall of industrial-sized mirrors, anxiously roving around in search of escape. Each remix complements the other, masterfully re-interpreting the source material while inviting fresh listens to the original.
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<h4>Nights Bright Days</h4>
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November 2014
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Although often compared to singular artists such as Nina Simone, Beth Gibbons and Elizabeth Fraser, Chloë March follows her own unique path, writing, engineering and producing from her 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 on <em>Nights Bright Days</em> to create poetic, emotionally charged and atmospheric songs and soundworlds. Four years in the making and originally self-released in 2013, <em>Nights Bright Days</em> is a cycle of songs as dreams, imbued with imagery of darkness and light, night and day. The album embraces elements of jazz, classical, folk and dream-pop, and features guest musicians on bass clarinet, soprano sax, French horn and guitar. <em>Nights Bright Days</em> features single ‘Winter Deep’, a shimmering waltz that opens the album with weightless grace.The Hidden Shoal re-release also includes the bonus digital EP <em>Under The Day</em> which features six previously un-released tracks.
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<h4>Under The Day</h4>
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November 2014
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A set of daydreams that form a miniature B-side to the album <em>Nights Bright Days</em>, this is a collection of six songs including the piano ballad ‘May’ and the dream-folk synth/harp reverie for the oldest tree in Kew Gardens ‘Old Tree, Mon Coeur’ that garnered Chloë Soundclouder of the Day earlier in 2014 - ‘Dreamy voice… A magical atmospheric song’. The new songs on this EP include ‘Ballooniad’ inspired by tales of the early Balloonists lifting off from coastal cliffs, a dreamily buoyant track tethered to a circling bass and ‘Big Tree Engine’ a minimalist reflection centred around deep jazz-inflected piano chords inspired by an ancient tree in central London.
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<h4>Politik</h4>
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July 2012
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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.
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<h4>Garden On The Boulevard</h4>
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November 2009
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<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.
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<h4>Divining</h4>
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November 2008
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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.
<div>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.</div>
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<h4>Snowdrop</h4>
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November 2004
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Chloë March's first album includes pared-down ballads for piano and voice and her first explorations into more epic, multi-layered highly evocative soundworlds. <em>"Sophisticated songwriting... a trace of David Sylvian's jazz-tinted sound...The utterly gorgeous melody and March's singing are exceptional. Snowdrop is a thing of beauty."</em> - <strong>Collected Sounds</strong>

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<h3>Biography</h3>
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”.

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.

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<h3>News</h3>
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<h2>Reviews</h2>
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<h3>Press Releases</h3>
<a title="Nights Bright Days Press Release" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/chloe-march/Chloe_March-Nights_Bright_Days-Press_Release.pdf">Nights Bright Days Re-Release</a>

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<h3>Artist Photos</h3>
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<h3>Music Videos</h3>
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<h3>Licensing</h3>
Chloë March's music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title="Contact Us" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.

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