From the moment this started it gave me goosebumps because the long drawn notes vibrate within you. The melody sounds medieval, even though it’s composed on a reed organ. Growing up I played a variety of keyboards but never a reed one. The tones coming out of this, it just takes you to another time and according to Loula’s press release it’s vintage. This is a folk instrumental, taking you to another place and time and as the sun sets here it’s giving me a chance to reflect over the last week and the coming one over a cuppa. This is from Loula’s EP Salix s collab with Charlotte Jolly.
Loula Yorke is a modular synthesist and composer. Oram laureate, Atari Punk Girls impresaria, and one-time member of TR-33N, who has since gone solo. In 2024, she released two pivotal albums, ‘Volta’ on Truxalis, and ‘Speak, thou vast and venerable head’ on quiet details, and has continued to record and release without cease from her Cottage Studio. During 2026 Loula will be gracing the soundsystems of IKLECTIK x Yarmonics, Acid Horse, Deer Shed and more TBA with two cases of oscillators and a boundary-pushing live playing style.
Charlotte Jolly studied clarinet and saxophone at Trinity Laban, going on to co-found psychedelic marching band Perhaps Contraption, playing everywhere from Fuji Rock to Burning Man, before returning to her native Suffolk. She’s now playing live and composing with voice and solo clarinet, plus working on socially engaged projects with the likes of the Britten Sinfonia and her own company Roly Poly, making music with the most strung-out, hallucinatory humans of all – pre-verbal kids and their grown-ups.
