Tara Clerkin Trio have shared Lazy Daisy, the latest track to surface ahead of their new album Somewhere Good, out 5th June via World of Echo.
It arrives hot on the heels of a New Music Fix session for BBC Radio 6 Music. Somewhere Good is the Bristol three-piece’s first new music since their acclaimed 2023 mini-album On The Turning Ground, which we covered here, and the follow-up to March’s title-track reveal.
The group — Tara Clerkin, Sunny Joe Paradisos and Patrick Benjamin — have spent five years assembling one of the more singular catalogues in experimental British music, their releases gathering reissue after reissue (the On The Turning Ground EP is now on its fourth repress). Across forty-odd minutes, Somewhere Good lets droning harmonium, upright bass, accentuated wind instruments and Clerkin’s hushed, hypnotic vocals cross-pollinate over subject matter that runs from displacement to gentrification — never wallowing, always intuitive.
Writing about the album, musician Ryan Davis (of Ryan Davis & the Roundhouse Band) put it plainly: “It is, quite simply, without exception, the music I wish to hear.” It’s a band that nods to jazz without appropriating it, he notes — one with “the actual chops to build it out.”
Following a US tour, the trio head out across the UK and Europe over summer and autumn, including two nights at London’s ICA in October. Full dates below.
Somewhere Good is released on 5th June via World of Echo: https://slinky.to/SomewhereGood
TARA CLERKIN TRIO UK / EUROPEAN DATES
26 June – Coventry (UK), Just Dropped In
15 August – Oslo (NO) Jazz Festival
18 August – Stockholm (SE), Fasching
4 September – Cologne (DE), Eigelstein Torburg
5 September – Paris (FR), La Station
9 September – Berlin (DE), Neue Zukunft
11 September – Aarhus (DK), Alter Festival
12 September – Copenhagen (DK), ALICE
20 Oct – London (UK), ICA
21 Oct – London (UK), ICA
22 Oct – Manchester (UK), Halle St Peters
25 Oct – Bristol (UK), Trinity
26 Oct – Cardiff (UK), Chapter Arts
27 Oct – Leeds (UK), The Attic
28 Oct – Oxford (UK), Common Ground
14 Nov – Newcastle (UK), The Lubber Fiend
15 Nov – Glasgow (UK), Glad Cafe