Years active 2010 (2010)–present | Website haikusalut.com | |
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Labels How Does It Feel To Be Loved? Record label How Does It Feel to Be Loved? Members Louise Croft, Sophie Barkerwood, Gemma Wood Similar Lau, Rich Collins, Jilk, The Spook School, Yuki Murata Profiles | ||
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Haiku Salut are an instrumental trio from the Derbyshire Dales in England. Their music fuses elements of neoclassical, post rock, folk and electronica.
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The trio consists of multi-instrumentalists Gemma Barkerwood, Sophie Barkerwood and Louise Croft. Between them, Haiku Salut play accordion, piano, glockenspiel, trumpet, guitar, ukulele, drums and melodica. Their music also features electronic elements, which they refer to as "loopery and laptopery".
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History
The group was formed in 2010, and their debut four track EP, “How We Got Along After the Yarn Bomb”, was released in 2011 on Team Strike Force records. Their debut album, Tricolore, was released in 2013 on How Does It Feel To Be Loved?. The album was favourably reviewed, and was awarded four stars by The Guardian, Uncut, Mojo, Artrocker, Drowned In Sound, Music OMH, The Digital Fix and Rock'N'Reel. Songs from the album have been played on BBC 6 Music by Jarvis Cocker, Tom Ravenscroft and Gideon Coe.
In August 2013, Haiku Salut won the Green Man Rising contest, and were the first band to play on the Mountain Stage at that year's Green Man Festival. In November, the trio toured the UK as guests of Lau.
Haiku Salut's second album, "Etch and Etch Deep", was released in 2015 to extremely positive reviews. It received four or more stars from The Observer, The Guardian, The Financial Times, NME, Uncut, Mojo, Drowned In Sound, and many more.
Performances
Haiku Salut never speak onstage, and refer to themselves as "three mute girls". In April 2013, the trio debuted their "lamp show", in which they are accompanied by 20 vintage lamps which are programmed to flash, fade and flicker in time to the music. The first lamp show performance was at Deda in Derby. The trio have since staged a number of further lamp show performances, including at the Indietracks festival in July 2013, and at St John on Bethnal Green church in October 2013 and October 2014. In September 2015, the band staged a UK tour of unusual spaces for the lamp show, playing a ballroom, a church, a theatre, a library, and a community centre.
Songs
Hearts Not PartsEtch And Etch Deep · 2015
Things Were Happening and They Were StrangeEtch And Etch Deep · 2015
Bleak And BeautifulEtch And Etch Deep · 2015