Emma Morton and the Graces
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IT Lucca – folk-blues / Blues / Folk / Roots / soul/jazz
Emma Morton and the Graces

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CRAMPS RECORDS
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Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder Why "feat" TEODORF Single 2016
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Scottish singer-songwriter Emma Morton’s ascendancy through the DIY music scene has seen her work gain increasingly high-profile recognition: beyond the mounting number of performances she’s chalked up on major television and radio stations over the last few years, Emma has enjoyed reaching the top ten in the charts, major radio plays, a publicity sync with Samsung and a number of collaborations with international artists like Raphael Gualazzi, Gary Lucas, Petra Magoni, DJ Mollela and Olly Murs.


Emma Morton & the Graces is her latest musical project with acclaimed musicians Piero Perelli (drums) and Luca Giovacchini (guitars). The collaboration brought her hurtling back to her roots and the musical interplay she had been missing as a solo artist. The band has drawn wide interest from audiences for their creative blend of country, folk and R&B. They are about to release their debut album “Bitten By the Devil” which explores the notion of beautiful contaminations.

Their unique sound offsets the sweet tones typical to Emma’s Scottish folk heritage with the band’s shared passion for Afro-American music, in particular, blues, soul and jazz. Emma’s monomythical storytelling transforms the darkness hiding daily life into something mystical and sublime.

Here's a private link to one of the tracks from their upcoming album.
https://soundcloud.com/emmamortonandthegraces/sets/dirty-john-demo/s-nZL7C

The band's three core members have been working on the Italian Jazz scene since 2012. The evolution of Emma Morton & the Graces began after their first performance as a trio for an Amatrice Relief concert in the days following the earthquake last year. Their new identity as a collective is forged from Luca’s haunting baritone guitar, ’64 Jazz Master and choice of pedals, Piero’s dirty sounding vintage drums and homemade percussions, and Emma’s soulful moaning in her East-Lothian dialect.

“It was just the three of us, I felt a strong instinct to make things different and as a group we wanted to respond to the overwhelming sense of solidarity present in Italy at that time. We chose a repertoire of songs that had, at some point in our lives allowed us to access the beauty of even our darkest fears, to weep at the spectrum of our humanity. Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, T-Bone Burnett and Nick Cave were some of the artists on that set list. I abandoned all notion of my voice being an instrument that evening; sound became secondary to words, which I instinctively sung in my spoken dialect. Something just clicked and I began my journey home – Luca and Piero the steady train that would take me there.” (cit. Emma Morton)

A confident and experienced live band, Emma Morton and the Graces thrive off the improvisation demanded by each audience’s peculiar energy: “Emma pulls you into her evocative and mysterious world full of juxtaposing experiences of love and hate, fear and freedom… her roaming eyes and deep febrile vocals charged as though each performance was her last confession. She doesn’t hold back” (Moodboard Magazine, 2017).

The live band members Piero Perelli (drums), Luca Giovacchini (guitar) and Gabriele Evangelista (double bass – bigger venues) have toured across Europe, America, India and Russia with artists like Dana Fuchs, Vinicio Capossela, Bobby Johnson, R.L. Burnside, Frank Frost, Sam Carr, Pianco C. Reed, Stefano Bollani, Enrico Rava, Maurizio Geri and Francesco Guccini and have performed at many festivals, including San Javier Jazz (France), Bospop Blues (Germany), Mahindra Blue (India), Smukfest (Denmark), Maxwell Street Blues Festival (USA), Ethno Jazz Festival (Russia) and Bayfront Blues Festival (USA).

Emma began writing and performing music after moving to Italy in 2009. She has since released her music with with Sony Italia, Reverb Records and Cramps Records and has performed in many clubs, festivals, theatres and television stations and shared the stage with artists including Raphael Gualazzi, Glen Handsard, Paolo Nutini, Olly Murs, Gary Lucas and Petra Magoni.
The young writer has also released music in partnership with high-fashion brand Pi-Quadro, and has on-going projects with designers Edda Berg and Sergei Grinko. Emma has been profiled in magazines such as Vogue Italia, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, Officiel.

Check out their website, youtube, facebook and instagram page!

www.emmamortonandthegraces.com
https://www.facebook.com/emmamortonandthegraces/
https://www.instagram.com/emmamorton/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08_rO67Xce0