We are delighted to welcome La Cozna for their first UK tour and a return of Mary Hampton to the Cube for a night of traditional song from France and England, mixed with current experimental approaches to folk.

La Cozna brings together musicians Clémentine Ristord (bass clarinet, drone box), Benjamin Garson (electric guitar), Pierre-Antoine Despatures (double bass) and Nicolas Jacobée (vocals). The quartet takes a series of traditional French songs from 20th-century
collections and brings them into the present. Passed down in whispers in the secrecy of kitchens, these women's songs are stories of love, violence and freedom that play on domination with humour, drama and poetry. In Ni Nuit Ni Jour, the ambiguity of the
lyrics flirts with a feverish sound, tense with desire and darkness.

Mary Hampton makes new versions of traditional songs and offers them up as questions, and sometimes challenges, to the modern listener. Using voice, tenor guitar and a selection of other tools, she carries them through her own peculiarly raw and tender sound-world. The stories she tells explore the timeless liability of embodied experience.