In the male dominated world of electroacoustic music, one often has to venture into alternative folk territory to enjoy the voice of female musicians and so the perfect way to warm up on a freezing December night in Dalston was to catch Sharron Kraus, Tara Burke aka Fursaxa and Meg Baird sharing the bill at Cafe OTO…
Kraus, Fursaxa and Baird have all played together in different guises in the past, such as the lovely Tau Emerald, producing what has been variously labelled as acoustic psychedelia and avant-folk. At Cafe OTO, though, they played separate sets.
Joined by Nancy Wallace and Nick Palmer on guitar and bouzouki Sharron Kraus presented tales of love and loss updating the traditional British folk idiom with carefully crafted songs hinged on restraint.