Emma Tricca has travelled far in seeking the heart of her own music. Inspired by Odetta and encouraged by John Renbourn has been gigging around folk clubs honing her craft as songwriter and fingerstyle guitarist.
Extended stays in New York and Texas followed, before she returned to London to start work on a first melancholic masterpiece, 2009's crystalline Minor White. Five years on she would release Relic, even more poised and precise than its predecessor, adding gentle percussion and plaintive orchestration to the established pattern of hushed guitar and heartfelt vocals.
Then hungry for new directions, when her friend Jane Weaver urged her to 'explore the weirdness' in her music she called up Jason Victor, producer and Dream Syndicate guitarist. Hauling in Sonic Youthdrummer Steve Shelley and New York bass hero Pete Galub they explored the rougher sound in her head. The resultant St Peter (2018) combined crunchy country rock, homespun psychedelia, Morricone soundtracks, New York underground grit and English folk grandeur to weave a wholly unique and surprising spell.
It garnered an invitation to tour with Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets, opening shows in the storied concert halls of Europe; at Paris’s L’Olympia she would sing in the footsteps of Bob Dylan. Now working again with Victor she resumes the journey, continuing to challenge both herself and her listeners.