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CLARA ENGEL is an independent, multi-faceted artist and musician based in Toronto, Canada. She has independently recorded and released eight albums, and has collaborated with musicians and artists from the UK, Germany, Brazil, Canada, Turkey, and the US. Engel’s music has been played on Italian National Radio, as well as BBC Radio 2, making it onto Tom Robinson’s show “BBC Introducing” on several occasions. Record labels Vox Humana (UK) and Backwards Music (IT) have released Engel’s work on vinyl. Some artists with whom Engel has collaborated: Aidan Baker (Musician, Berlin/Toronto), Larkin Grimm (Musician, NYC), Bruno Capinan (Musician, Brazil/Toronto), Stefan Orschel-Read (Fashion designer, UK), Nick Fox-Gieg (Animator, Toronto/NYC), Ebrahel Lurci (Artist, Turkey). Engel recently wrote and recorded a soundtrack for the short film “We Are Not Here” directed by Aaron Mirkin, due out in early 2013, and is currently mixing a new album “Ashes and Tangerines,” due for release in 2013 through Talking Skull, a Montreal-based label.

Jeremy Reed, Britain’s most dynamic poet, writes: “Clara Engel’s voice comes to me from that deepest of all places, imaginative space, from which she visually retrieves an inner landscape converted by breath into the rock equivalent of poetry. Rarely has a voice sounded so authoritative, so unapologetic in its disclosures, so sure of its direction in going home into song. I’d say ‘Madagascar’ beats them all, and it’s only a beginning at harnessing poetic inspiration to the resonating dynamic of voice and the lyrical ache of a great individual singer.”

Ghost Opera
Madagascar
Chorus of Murderous Bells
Illuminate Me
The Opium Song
Hole in the Sun
Light Years
Song to the Sea Witch (Disembody My Voice)
Married to the Bone

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