JODIE ELMS
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Jodie Elms is an alternative folk music singer-songwriter, from The New Forest.
Her songs paint sweeping melody lines, and weave personal, yet relatable, lyrical stories.
She accompanies herself with Irish bouzouki and the shruti-box.
"Flavours of Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, & PJ Harvey,
with an English-rose folk feel."
- J. Beaumont (Caravan, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown)
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In 2024 Jodie performed for The Wimborne Folk Festival, Teddy Rocks Festival, The Railway - Winchester, Freezone Festival, Elevate Festival - Glastonbury, The Ringwood Carnival,
Solid Air & Cherry Bomb at Chaplins Cellar Bar...
Jodie is currently in the process of recording her album, so please check back for more updates... why not sign up to the mailing list to be the first in the know?
Can you tell us a bit about you, what influences you?...
(from 'The Brave Moment' Podcast interview 2022)
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"Hm... well, I ‘see’ and physically ‘feel’ sound - as colours and sensations (a neurological difference called Synaesthesia).
This plays out in my melodies; the shape of them has to intrigue me – like wandering over the peeks of a wild mountain range, rather than meandering along a flat pavement. It’s great for writing music - seeing colours, textures of sound.
I adore observing relationships, marvelling at the curious little ways we all carry on in the world; my song ‘Thrift Stores’ is about this – the stories we tell ourselves. Like, charity-shop shopping - ‘I’m saving money (by spending money)… if I buy this or that stuff how fulfilling it will feel (for 10minutes!)’… I find us, me, so sweet and so absurd...
Details and patterns speak to me; the veins of an oak leaf, the dancing halo of a candle flame, the silky moss on the church wall, the telephone wires trapping the sky in geometric boxes… it’s all just so beautiful...
I definitely find inspiration in nature. I love to retreat into quietude - listen to the birds, watch the light change across a land scape, I think it's important to just Be.
I don't know where the songs themselves come from... some other realm perhaps. It's as if they channel down and though me. I am grateful for them... "
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