Voice on Shellac - Live Show from Laughing With The Raindrops

Music from new album to be synchronised with black and white film

Virginie Lacour-Puiboube with Laughing With The Raindrops
Virginie Lacour-Puiboube with Laughing With The Raindrops

Led by songwriter and performer Virginie Lacour-Puiboube, Laughing With The Raindrops are bringing their new album, Voice On Shellac, to a live setting in Perivale.

They will be performing two shows at Impact Community Arts (UB6 8GP) Friday 10 June.

The modern jazz combo will perform the album’s songs, synchronised to a black and white silent movie: Faded Prints. Inspired by Virginie Lacour-Puiboube’s family photo album. With the film’s cast made up entirely of children, the show can be enjoyed by people of all ages

The silent movie’s narrative develops in tandem with the songs: Two young girls discover memorabilia in their attic. They rummage through suitcases and play games related to their findings. Starting with a "peculiar" camera that "captures memories in colour", the girls investigate the song characters' past, through photos, letters and a record collection that contains a recording of Virginie's grandmother's voice on a shellac disc.



The girls also ponder about how they will use a large sum of money they have discovered in one of the suitcases. This fortune takes them on a long journey in search of the girl in the black and white dress, from the photo album. The storyline takes the audience back and forth in time, as the girls refer to the time when they first found the memorabilia two years earlier, and to how their new, now more mature understanding sheds light on the song characters' past through decades of love, betrayal, divorce, war, travel, life…

This show forms part of an evening of eclectic live music performances featuring women songwriter-storytellers.

Support comes from Lutfia, a 21-year-old BIMM student and her all-girl band promoting their recently-released EP, So Much For Summer. The EP which has been described as a ‘sophisticated collection of pop songs’ incorporates a variety of different styles, including alternative pop, pop-rock, funk and dance. Lutfia tells stories of teenage love, mental health struggles and nostalgia.

The evening also features Little Lore, a London based, Indie-Americana singer-storyteller with an affection for the heart and heritage of Americana music.

Virginie founded Laughing with The Raindrops in 2013, and their eponymous debut album was released in 2016. More recently, as she studied for an MMus in Music performance at London College of Music, Virginie focussed on the creation of narratives in song and explored the use of visual art as a combined story-telling device. Voice On Shellac was the resulting album (released on vinyl this year) and live show.

Hailing from Paris, Virginie has contributed to music projects in the UK since the late 1980s, from playing guitar in all-girl Reggae band Just Desserts and a Serge Gainsbourg tribute trio to being active on the London Jazz scene in the 90s, alongside bassist Alexander Keen and pianist Gabriel Keen, co-leading 13-piece experimental Jazz group Piano Di Lavoro, performing in London venues such as the Barbican Foyer, The Bull’s Head (Barnes), former jazz club The Bass Clef. In the mid-90s, Virginie also founded Baton Rouge, a vocal-led septet showcasing her song writing.

Tickets for the show can be bought online and cost £16 (£8 for concessions).

 

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May 26, 2022