Creative tour-de-force and trailblazing independent artist Roxanne de Bastion today releases her highly anticipated new Ultraviolet EP, and with it the collection’s focus track ‘UV’, a sparkling feminist pop anthem which is already a firm live favourite among Roxanne’s fans.
On UV, Roxanne says: “I wrote UV together with the brilliant songwriter Jessica Sharman and we wrote about our common ground: being a woman in music. I liked the concept of ultraviolet light – invisible to the human eye – and used it as a metaphor for how current structures aren’t built for everyone and that we might need different ways of doing things (i.e. a blacklight), to bring silenced voices to the fore”.
Ultraviolet EP was produced and recorded by Ed Harcourt, who duets with Roxanne on the previously released ‘Relentless’. The collection’s first single ‘Skin’ garnered support from the likes of John Kennedy on RadioX, Clash, The Line of Best Fit and God is in the TV.
The EP arrives just ahead of Roxanne’s October headline tour, taking in Brighton, Liverpool and Bristol before a further run of dates in Germany. Roxanne will also support Ed Harcourt in November.
Speaking about the EP, Roxanne says:
“This collection of songs is about voicing the unsaid and about shedding light. It can be interpreted on both a personal, as well as on a societal level – while songs such as Skin and Future Tense are more reflective and personal, Relentless and the (sort of) title track UV in particular, paint broader strokes. I loved capturing the songs with Ed Harcourt in his Wolf Cabin studio Oxfordshire. It felt good to work quickly and capture the songs mostly live”
What is perhaps even more impressive than the single is the fact that Roxanne has found the time to record a new body of work at all, as most recently she has been busy with the launch and release of her first book ‘The Piano Player of Budapest’. The story of her grandfather, a renowned Hungarian musician who survived the holocaust, the book was published by Little Brown and arrived with an accompanying album bringing her grandfather’s music back to life, beautifully re-imagined and curated by Roxanne. Glowingly reviewed by Record Collector, The New Cue, The Times Literary Supplement and The Mail on Sunday, it has firmly marked Roxanne out as a truly unique talent.
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