Some nice things people have said about Isobel:

"I've been playing "Cold Water Songs" over and over since I got it this morning. Her voice reminds me of Beth Orton, that easy, effortless beauty combined with gorgeous songs."

Marie-Louise Muir - BBC Arts Extra

"Isobel Anderson is a talent that deserves greater recognition… Over eight songs, she lays bare her soul, accompanying her utterly captivating voice and evocative lyrics with beautifully played guitar and autoharp… and the songwriting is superb throughout. Very highly recommended."

Chris Jones - AU Magazine

 

Biog:

Isobel is a vocalist, songwriter, and installation artist. Her work and projects have incorporated film, theatre, song, spoken word, book art, radio and more. At the heart of this work is an underlying interest in how we use sound, stories and voice to express and understand the world around us and what lies within. 

 

Isobel graduated with a First in Music from Dartington College of Arts in 2006. She was awarded an Arts Council grant to devise a performance with filmmaker Katie Utting, To Be Brave, which was performed at Norwich Arts Centre in April 2007. In 2007 Isobel moved to London where she worked for organisations such as The Society for the Promotion of New Music organising much of their busy live programme and various composer mentoring projects, as well as the Sadler's Wells based Hip Hop theatre company, Jonzi D Productions. In 2009 Isobel was awarded a scholarship to study for an MA in Sonic Arts at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC), Belfast, and graduated in 2010 with Distinction. In 2010 she won an AHRC Scholarship to studying for a practice-led PhD at SARC researching how storytelling combines with sound art practices and acts as a form of orientation and mapping through narrative, language and sound.

Isobel was made Artist in Residence for Belfast's Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival in April/May 2011 and was selected for a residency at The Curfew Tower in Cushendall, Northern Ireland, in June 2011, curated by Birmingham's Eastside Project. Isobel has also exhibited at Belfast's Linen Hall Library (August 2010), Up The Wall (October 2010) and will be showing her latest collaboration piece, seven voices, at Belfast's PS2 Gallery in July 2011.

In 2010 Isobel released her debut album Cold Water Songs, receiving much critical acclaim and airplay from BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Radio 3's Late Junction. Marie-Louise Muir, of BBC Radio Ulster describes the album and Isobel's voice as having "effortless beauty combined with gorgeous songs". Arts Ulster magazine describe it as "one of the years most haunting debut albums". Live performances to date include, London's The Roundhouse and Proud Galleries, Belfast's Open House Festival, The Belfast Nashville Singer Songwriter Festival and Moving On Music Festival. Isobel will be performing at Glastonbury in June 2011.