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If it were possible to meld the heart of Mazzy Star, the soul of PJ Harvey, and pure poetic prowess of Throwing Muses’ Tanya Donelly into a solitary star she’d go by the name Chantel Van T. Having graced stages locally and abroad, including touring in Europe and the U.K. in 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019 and a member of Cape Town Space Rock act Diamond Thug.
On a mission to unearth raw feelings, coupled with intoxicating melodies, Van T took the best of her old school musical upbringing and added multiple new and rich layers of life's experience. Think Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and just enough Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell to elicit the emotion this music elevates.
Nicalochan is like no other body of work she has created. This album is a mature, honest creation that is neither overthought nor over-produced. It is an untampered-with creation from an artist with a fervent intention to make the listener fee l- be it to haunt or uplift. It was recorded on tape over two summers by Danish producer Anders Christopherson (WSLS Records) in his self-built Berlin studio. Together with a few remarkable musicians they found sounds and rhythms that helped tell the stories of her songs and hold her possessed voice. The album seeks to explore the artists’ inner world without artifice or any attempt to mask vulnerability. The lyrics speak of dreams and illusions, of disruptive forces in her childhood, of understanding love and of becoming a woman.
Nicalochan is an album born of seamless creativity imparting to the listener a sense of inspiration and wonder and will be released on the 23rd October 2020.
