Photo credit: Louis Scully
Bandcamp: https://zoebasha.bandcamp.com/track/dublin-street-corners
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1nRNdTnHoeHprIdCawR1VI?si=a446f6f21aca4ea7
Zoé Basha, the Dublin based French-American musician and composer known for her unique blend of traditional and original music, has released her third single “Dublin Street Corners“, from her upcoming debut album due 17th April.
Following singles “Love is Teasin’” and “Three Little Babes”, “Dublin Street Corners” is an original song laying bare in its vulnerability, addressing patterns of lying to ourselves and each other, connections between landscape and memories, and masking to maintain the façade of the ordinary. The single will be followed by a music video, directed by Steve O’Connor, to be released in mid-February.
Zoé’s forthcoming debut album Gamble blends folk, blues, americana, jazz, and Irish influences.
The album was produced by Zoé, with mixing and mastering by Grammy Award-winning engineer Ben Rawlins. Zoé’s debut promises to be an intimate exploration of identity, grief, the deconstructing of societal norms, and the complexities of human connection, all delivered with a mesmerising voice that echoes the vulnerability and depth of her diverse influences. Inspired by the greats of times passed, such as Billie Holiday, The Mills Brothers, Jimmie Rodgers, Joni Mitchell, Texas Gladden, Edith Piaf and The Steve Miller Band– as well as her peers in the contemporary Irish folk music scene, Zoé Basha savours the sounds of golden eras with contemporary nuance and shameless honesty.
Traveling by thumb, freight trains, and taking the scenic route with rust-bucket vans, Zoé Basha played music in the streets for years. Of French and American origins, but with some pretty persistent traveling shoes, she was pulled between Ireland and the traveling life for the last decade. For a while, she had a persistent feeling that music wasn’t the most useful endeavour for the world, so Zoé turned to working in traditional French timber framing.
With her passion for music revived through Rufous Nightjar starting in 2020, Zoé moved all her tools, her own rust-bucket van, and her dreams back to Ireland.
Now having recorded her first solo album with songs that tell the stories of these roamings – through adventures and musings of intimacy, sorrow, identity, celebrating the fleeting, and questioning the whole lot – she’ll be touring it throughout 2025, returning to the towns and cities of her travels.
‘Gamble’ is a collection that reflects Zoé’s distinctive style blending the rich storytelling traditions of Appalachian Mountain songs, the solemn ornamentation of Irish traditional music, and the rhythmic fervor of American blues and ragtime. With a combination of guitar, fiddle, organ, upright bass, and a voice that’s often been compared to the sounds of old jazz records, the album is expected to cause a mighty stir in the world of contemporary folk music.
Zoé Basha’s “Dublin Street Corners” is available now (Weds 29th Jan) on streaming platforms, with more singles to be released leading up to the album launch in 2025.
LIVE DATES:
April 17th 2025 – Album Launch with full band at The Sugar Club, Dublin
April 20th 2025 – Connolly’s of Leap, West Cork
April 21st 2025 – Prim’s Bookshop, Kinsale
April 26th 2025 – The Duncairn, Belfast
May 1st 2025 – Fennelly’s of Callan, Co. Kilkenny
May 2nd – Bray Jazz Fest
August 2nd – Letham Nights Letham, Fife, Scotland (UK)
+ more to be announced – https://www.zoebasha.net/upcoming-gigs
‘Gamble’ Tracklist:
- Love Is Teasin’ (*released as a single 3rd December)
- Gamble
- Worried
- Traveling Shoes
- Three Little Babes (*released as a single 26th December)
- Same Swallows Swooping
- Come Find Me Lonesome
- Sweet Papa Hurry Home
- Dublin Street Corners (**NEW SINGLE)
- What Dream Is This
- 1 One Morning In May
Website: https://www.zoebasha.net/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zoe.basha/