Josienne Clarke (1982- ) is an English singer-songwriter. She was part of a duo with guitarist Ben Walker until 2019 when she had a band called Picapica. In the same year she went solo.
Music career From 2009 until 2018 she formed a duo with guitarist Ben Walker, winning a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for best duo in 2017, and signing with music label Rough Trade Records, with whom she made six duo albums, one record with her band PicaPica and her solo record ‘In All Weather’ in 2019. She also recorded an EP ‘Such A Sky’ with jazz pianist Kit Downes in 2017. She has toured world-wide and has supported folk musician Richard Thompson on one of his tours.
In 2019 she formed a band called PicaPica. The band recorded a studio album called Together & Apart. The Financial Times wrote in 2019 she was "recognised as a rising star of British folk". She subsequently signed with the label Corduroy Punk Records to bring out more solo albums.
Of her 2023 solo album Onliness (which is a re-recording of some previous work), Folkradio wrote: "a graceful melancholy in the melodies and a bird-like fragility to her singing coating an underlayer of grit and menace you would be foolish to ignore".
Discography Studio albums Year Title Credited to2010One Light Is Gonesolo2011The Seas Are DeepClarke & Walker2012Homemade HeartacheClarke & Walker2013Fire & FortuneClarke & Walker2013MidwinterClarke & Walker2014Nothing Can Bring Back the HourClarke & Walker2016OvernightClarke & Walker2017Such a SkyClarke & Downes2017The BirdsClarke & Walker2018Seedlings AllClarke & Walker2018Last NightClarke & Walker2019Together & ApartPicaPica2019In All Weathersolo2021A Small Unknowable Thingsolo2022I Promised You Lightsolo2022Now And Thensolo2023Onliness – Songs of Solitude & Singularitysolo2024Parenthesis, Isolo2025Far from Nowheresolo
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