Introducing: Marena Whitcher’s Shady Midnight Orchestra

• 24th Mar 2015

Carving her niche in the young Swiss jazz scene, 25 year-old Marena Whitcher from Zurich, is a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer. She’s also every goth’s dream woman.

Never an easy listen, always challenging, maybe even more of an art installation than a musical project, her excursions into every imaginable and inconceivable vocal dimension are eccentric and theatrical.

This year’s recipient of the prestigious art-prize granted by the Berlin Academy of Arts, her first album, entitled ‘Ghostology’, is an avant-garde collection of tracks examining the permeation of ghosts and spirits through all different ages, cultures and fields of art.

Composing in a poetic jazz/avant-garde pop style that consistently departs from conventions, these songs are full of treasures – rambling, evocative stories of dancing skeletons, soldiers frozen in time, and a strange ocean child.

This is music that will take you on a journey unlike any you’ve experienced before – the question is, are you ready for where you’re heading?