Clara Mann
Originally from Bristol, where she was born in 2001, folk singer-songwriter
Clara Mann's fragile, intense songs are carried by a soft, almost whispered
voice and crystal-clear arrangements. Brought up in a classical, rural
environment, with piano lessons, church chants and lush green landscapes, Clara
Mann soon developed a musical sensibility nourished as much by the great
impressionist masters as by the tutelary folk figures of the 1960s and 1970s,
such as Nick Drake and Joni Mitchell. The floating harmonies that haunt her
compositions are just as close to Debussy or Britten. La...
