VOCALS: Ash Mandrake

With the release of his first album and a new web site due in early 2012, this video details the development of the vocal style of Ash Mandrake from starting out in 2005 through his work with the Mandrake Project UK and his tours from 2008 to 2011. The taming of the power and a migration into more subtle territories can be heard through live and studio recordings here. Plus footage of previously unheard recordings and a sample of vocals from his forthcoming album.

Here are some of the things people have said about his vocals:

This is what a singer sounds like who has no need for conventions, who is beyond normal boundaries, beyond normal reality. It sounded, for all the earthly world, like the songs of mushrooms in autumn: rootsy, earthy, wild.
(Paul Notcher: Tower Of Song, Birmingham 2009)

Ash Mandrake sounds like James Joyce reads
(Ook Worrior 2007)

Ash Mandrake sounds like Midge Ure crossed with velvet, or Sting having swallowed an opera singer.
(Charley Allen 2007)

"An intense performance from a man with the vocal range of Tim Buckley... Folk infused with influences from around the globe, with unique arrangements and flashes of theatrical genius... A modern day troubadour"
(Rachel Wild 2008)

"Iconic and Iconoclastic at the same time"
(Charley Dunlop 2008)

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