“Une artiste qui chante la montagne”
Nicolas Perrillat (Vox Alpina)
With a voice matched by her unique songwriting and entrancing performances‚ Noum's music mutates the roots of folk‚ country & electronica to conjure ballad-core chants and doomgrass soaked in euphoric psychadelia.
Her sound is permeated by her french heritage; the gutteral vibrato of Edith Piaf and unapolagetic kitsch of Francoise Hardy and Serge Gainsbourg‚ and undertoned by late 90's English nostalgia; her two worlds perpetually colliding and lighting up every adventurous departure.
She also draws on a tapestry of traditional music lineages‚ from a growing Alpine repertoire to an enduring obsession with Greek music and transatlantic Anglo-Celtic ballads. Her training in medieval Occitanian (troubadour) and pre-Gregorian (Old Roman) chant comes from a long and fruitful involvement with Idrisi Ensemble, with whom her vocal journey has developed for just under a decade through devoted studies and a fanfare of solos and polypyhonies in sold-out cathedrals and some of London's most iconic venues the likes of KOKO‚ Queen Elizabeth Hall & Royal Albert Hall.
Her forthcoming album, due for release in March 2027, was recorded live with Ayman Sinada on drums and Mandy Nossen on bass, a trio which was assembled during a circus show in 2024 and morphed into her core group as they subsequently accompanied the solo shows that lead up to the album recording. The album was later opened up to feature other friends as she produced it in her home studio over the year that followed. To launch her debut album she will be joined by Ayman Sinada‚ Mandy Nossen (bass)‚ Owen Spafford (fiddle) and Konstantinos Glynos (kanun), all of whom have performed on the album.
Having long treated the stage as a place for experimentation‚ and a substitute for institutional education which she deviated from at an early age‚ she stems from a very live-orientated, DIY and community-fueled musical universe‚ always expanding her musical horizons through solo & collaborative performance.
Her scoring and sound design work for the likes of Girls in film‚ Falling Tree, Nowness‚ and most recently the BBC (with 8-part series ‘Holdfast!’) have played a big part in her developement as a producer.