"Une artiste qui chante la montagne" - Nicolas Perrillat (Vox Alpina)

Alternating between electrified full-band performances and stripped-back acoustic solo sets, Noum's live show distills a vast body of oddly refreshing original material with modern reworks of traditional ballads and chants. Known to travel with a 40 watt guitar amp and to bring special guests and collaborators into the fold, her live sound is a shapeshifting experience with a feverish and delicate quality.

Her childhood search for familiarity in a new city morphed with adulthood, as the city became a modern world with equally uprooting side effects; a curiousity that has lead her deep into obsessive periods of musical submersion through a variety of disciplines; the building blocks to a sound as otherworldly as it is intimately personal.

Her songs are little fires along her path of exploration, burning from the woodchip of transatlantic, Alpine and Mediterranean folk songs, from French chanson and electronic dance music, from the fantasy worlds created by absurdist film makers such as David Lynch, Paradjanov and Jan Švankmajer. 

“Wonderful voice and killer arrangements that belies her years” — The Slow Music Movement

She has been acompanied by Ayman Sinada (drums) and Mandy Nossen (bass) since a commission to assemble a band for a run of circus shows in August 2025, where her own existing songs were adapted to accompany dancers, contortionists and clowns in a contemporary circus show drenched in playful surrealism.

Following this, a string of London concerts with her new band lead to a live-recording of her forthcoming album, which she then produced herself over the year that followed in her bedroom studio, bringing in guest performers such as qanun player Konstantinos Glynos, clarinet and kaval player Oliver Dover, Balkan polyphony group Alkana Graeca, and Leeds fiddler Owen Spafford to contribute to the songs with solos and acompaniments. The album is in the final stages of mixing and set for release in Autumn 2026, following a flock of singles beginning with ‘Early Blossom’ in early June.

“A peculiar artistic journey rooted in deep lyricism, avant-garde matter, and French chanson flavourings” — mesmerized.io 

As a peformer, French-Swiss born and London raised Noémie Ducimetière, the creative mind behind the music, has appeared as a guest soloist in Jordan Rakei’s sold out Royal Albert Hall shows, contributed backing vocals to Florence Welch’s Drink Deep, and performed solos in sold-out shows at KOKO and Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of Idrîsî Ensemble, with whome she has specialised in Old Roman, Corsican and medieval Occitan chant. 

However her work is far from confined to live performance. As a producer, Noémie Ducimetière has worked on numerous live scores for film and radio that have been featured in over 40 festivals, most notably BBC audio adventure Hold Fast! which animates the retelling of the true story of a cargo ship being stuck out at sea during the pandemic across 8 immersive sound design and original music-rich episodes, and a NOWNESS short about Bulgarian rose farmers Every True Person Of Kalofer Without Freedom Can't Live.