Mara Simpson is a British musician and storyteller, currently based in Brighton. She loves to draw together the sublime and ridiculous from our everyday life to create lucid, silky soundscapes and narrate stories full of transcendence and beauty. Among her most recent collaborations are musicians Poppy Ackroyd and Jools Owen, as well as visual artists and choirs. Glasgow-based Sound of Yell is an all-acoustic collective of fingerstyle guitar, idiosyncratic strings, and restless woodwind. Lissom and otherworldly, they mould all-new shapes and textures fusing…

Stubbleman is the alter-ego of maverick composer and producer Pascal Gabriel. From his beginnings in a Belgian punk band to helping spearheaded the ascent of a new wave of electronic music in the UK, Pascal has composed, produced and mixed with a huge variety of artists including Goldfrapp, Dido, Natalie Imbruglia, Bebel Gilberto, and Kylie Minogue. His own music embraces his electronic ambient past combining a cinematic mixture of found sounds, field recordings, and modular synthesisers, often accompanied by live piano.…