We are delighted to welcome La Cozna for their
first UK tour and a return of Mary Hampton to the
Cube for a night of traditional song from France
and England, mixed with current experimental
approaches to folk.

La Cozna brings together musicians Clémentine
Ristord (bass clarinet, drone box), Benjamin Garson
(electric guitar), Pierre-Antoine Despatures (double
bass) and Nicolas Jacobée (vocals). The quartet takes
a series of traditional French songs from 20th-century
collections and brings them into the present. Passed
down in whispers in the secrecy of kitchens, these
women's songs are stories of love, violence and
freedom that play on domination with humour, drama
and poetry. In Ni Nuit Ni Jour, the ambiguity of the
lyrics flirts with a feverish sound, tense with desire and
darkness.

Mary Hampton makes new versions of traditional
songs and offers them up as questions, and
sometimes challenges, to the modern listener. Using
voice, tenor guitar and a selection of other tools, she
carries them through her own peculiarly raw and
tender sound-world. The stories she tells explore the
timeless liability of embodied experience.