Zoe Heselton
Strasbourg, France
With an exceptional voice, both flexible and powerfully embodied, and a sharp, cascading approach to the electric guitar, Zoe Heselton is a British poet and songwriter based in Strasbourg. After ten years of prolific writing, her first studio album was released last April on Teenage Menopause Records.
She sings what we might call “songs” for lack of a better word, which are dizzying, high falls, dances to get back up. Within them vibrates everything that has always vibrated in prehistoric blues, free jazz, spoken word poetry, and flamenco. Sometimes melodious, sometimes dissonant, her songs rise up in litanies for survival, in poems of tenderness and rage.