Jo Beth Young

R I S E and her band preview the new album STRANGERS just before release during their September/October Tour in the UK. "The most perfect recording I’ve heard this year, maybe in a couple of years" John Diliberto ECHOES, USA CHOSEN AS ECHOES BEST ALBUM OF 2018 'Full of grace and beauty" •••• ****​PROG Magazine "More hauntingly beautiful than Kate Bush on a good day" BBC INTRO DEVON “A delicate atmospheric triumph” Vacant Ceremony "A voice that can only be described as like a Tolkein Elf, It is rich in harmonics, ethereal and just plain gorgeous!" Fatea Magazine “Rise’s vocals propel this album into your conscious and unconscious mind. It is the songs of our childhood and our dream worlds’ woven together.” No Depression, USA RISE (aka Jo Beth Young) is an English songwriter whose relentlessly authentic songs and mesmeric voice cut deep into the fabric of human frailty with a visionary sound swaying hypnotically between dream folk and progressive grit; at times dark but always beautiful. Since the release of her debut album ‘An Abandoned Orchid House’ in 2018 (under the longer moniker of Talitha RISE) she has been gathering international acclaim and support from BBC 6, BBC Introducing Devon, and the legendary ECHOES Radio in the USA who made her the number 1 album of the year. Establishing her unique sound early on in Ireland cutting her teeth on the folk circuit, she returned to the UK and met her long-term collaborator Martyn Barker (Shriekback, Goldfrapp, Robert Plant) and caught the attention of Chris Difford (Squeeze) who sang on her debut EP Blue. As a live artist, RISE has started to reach new heights. Opening for acts such as Renaissance, Boo Hewardine, Julia Biel, Antonio Forcione and Shriekback, and she has held the spellbound attention of audiences at The Maltings, St. Pancras London, and sold out her 2017 and 2018 headline shows in Sussex and Devon. With beautifully crafted songs, enrapturing emotional performances and cinematic sounds, Rise has reaped incredible support from acclaimed artists including Juldeh Camara (Robert Plant), Henry Thomas (George Michael, Van Morrison), Peter Yates (Fields of the Nephillim), Mike Rowe (Sheryl Crow, Noel Gallagher), Arnulf Linder (K.T Tunstall). With comparisons to Kate Bush, Stevie Nicks, Mazzy Star, Tori Amos threading through Pink Floyd-esque sounds, it is still hard to pin down Rise’s sounds and influences. There are hints of her classical singing beginnings, her celtic studies and love of early prog, Tim Buckley and Nick Drake, but ultimately, a rarity in these times, she sounds distinctively like herself.