Alison Cotton
Alison Cotton Bio
London-based Alison Cotton has been recording for almost 30 years – in bands like Saloon, The Eighteenth Day of May and The Left Outsides – but since her first solo work manifested in 2018, has quietly become one of the UK’s most extraordinarily evocative aural explorers, building eerily arcane tapestries of supernatural beauty from her multi-layered viola, incantatory vocals and harmonium.
Previously released her music on a fine selection of UK indie labels – Bloxham Tapes, Rocket Recordings, Cardinal Fuzz, Clay Pipe Music – Alison Cotton find a perfect home for her meditative, drone-based take on folk music in Glitterbeat's tak:til imprint (which includes artists such as Brìghde Chaimbeul, Širom and Cerys Hafana), and announced the release of her remarkable new album The Gods Laugh.
The Wire's words on the artist: «Alison Cotton’s solo work speaks of places, people and stories not quite of this world, while orchestrating folk and drone elements meticulously, as if following an arcane ritual»
