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ARTIST extraordinaire Hannah Peel, fresh from her reimagining and recasting of Delia Derbyshire’s library music work, Fir Wave, and her folksier collaboration with Philippe Cohen Solal, Mike Lindsay and others, Outsider, has announced details of a major new work, The Unfolding, in collaboration with the award-winning, premier British conductor Charles Hazlewood and his Paraorchestra; expect, from the …

FOR HER latest journey into the world of sound, the album Fir Wave, out at the end of next month, Hannah Peel was given the keys to a sound source of classic production recordings made by a legend of electronic music whose lineage she’s carrying forward – Delia Derbyshire. As she explains: “The specialist library …

HANNAH PEEL is a true renaissance woman and arguably the most musically multifaceted artist at work in the UK at the present time. She’s recently been curating and presenting BBC Radio 3’s Night Tracks; her catalogue, stemming from folky roots back a decade ago, has grown to take in the solo electronic and pop work of Awake But …

HANNAH PEEL, the Irish-born, Yorkshire-resident artiste who moves freely between folk, classical and retrotronica, finding beautiful nuance in each, is to release her soundtrack for the new Channel 5 psychological thriller The Deceived, which has been airing this week. The Deceived is a four-part drama written by Lisa McGee, the authorial talent behind Derry Girls. …

Two of the strongest and most talented women in music got together to showcase their talents in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall this past Wednesday (November 22nd) in front of an appreciative crowd. The Evening started with Hannah Peel. Described as ‘modest yet mesmerising’, Peel stands over her synths and electronics with an unassuming power. Throughout the …

Hannah Peel, 2/3rds of Magnetic North and acclaimed singer songwriter, has released one of the years most lovely, intimate, emotional and beautiful records of the year in Awake but always dreaming, which came out late last month. Busy recording and performing in her own right and collaborating with an array of artists, she’s just announced …

Here at backseat mafia towers, we’re eagerly anticipating the arrival of Magnetic North frontwoman Hannah Peel’s second solo record, Awake But Always Dreaming, which drops on 9th September. Ahead of the release Peel has released a new video for the lead single, All that Matters. Talking of the track, Peel says “I wrote this song …