Josienne Clarke

After the release of her critically acclaimed album A Small Unknowable Thing this year (**** Four Stars MOJO / **** Four Stars Financial Times), Josienne Clarke set about her next project, the ‘I Promised You Light’ EP.

Speaking about the EP, Clarke says “I though, what advice would I give to me? Forget all the framing…what do people really need to be told in their darkest, lowest moments? And they need to be told it gets better, it will be alright. And it will’ she says determinedly.

The four tracks that comprise the EP were recorded over a four-day period in London with her full band. It was the culmination “an incredible, joyous project from start to end” she says. “I’ve probably enjoyed writing this one more than anything I’ve done”.

With work on her next project already begun, Clarke says the main thing she’s learnt is not to be afraid of failure when going into something new, starting over. “I can take less fear into whatever I do now” she says. ‘I can exist in an in-between state where it’s ok to just create, to put songs out into the world and not worry about all the fear and the bullshit I was conditioned to think as a young woman in this industry. I don’t have to earn my right to exist personally or professionally any more. I can just be….with both the darkness and the light”.

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