Agnès Botty

To call Agnès Botty’s music intimate Folk/World would fall short of capturing the freedom at the heart of this project, whose very identity is rooted in the crossing of borders, geographical, musical, emotional and personal. Recorded between Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in England, as well as studios in Barcelona and Belgium, the forthcoming debut album Some Stupid Love Songs is the result of deep human and musical connections. Agnès Botty brings together a group of international artists from diverse traditions and backgrounds; John Baggott (Portishead, Massive Attack, Robert Plant), Karim Baggili on oud, Adrien Tyberghien (principal double bassist at the Paris Opera), Mauritanian Fulani singer Ziza Youssouf, and a Brazilian choir; all united in the pursuit of authenticity and emotional truth. In Mr. Beckett, the world goes on as if nothing has changed. People move, lights flicker, days pass but something essential has quietly fallen apart. In the wake of a love now gone, everything feels strangely hollow, almost unreal. The song drifts through that fragile space where the heart lingers, suspended between what was and what remains, capturing the quiet absurdity of life continuing when meaning seems to have slipped away.