heka

Francesca Brierley - aka heka - is a multi-disciplinary artist, songwriter and producer based in London. Deeply intimate and awash with melancholia, her style of lo-fi warmth incorporates snippets of conversations previously buried deep within the notes of her phone, blending murmurings of life with themes of love and loss, nostalgia and the everyday. Rejecting genre constraints, her self-produced butchered folk songs meld electronic and organic tones in favour of a sonic hybridity. Live appearances across UK and Europe include notable shows alongside John Maus, White Flowers, bar italia, Grace Cummings, Sam Burton, Drug Store Romeos, Black Country, New Road, Skydaddy and Lutalo. After a double single release in collaboration with South London producer Saint Jude on tastemaker label Slow Dance Records, heka is now back in the studio working on her first album. GMT: tobi@thesapiensgroup.co.uk