The Magic Lantern, moniker of singer-songwriter and composer Jamie Doe returns to the Prince Albert with an ensemble drawn from London's thriving alternative jazz scene to launch his new album 'To Everything A Season’.
Born in Australia before moving to the UK at 12, The Magic Lantern blurs the boundaries between folk, jazz and contemporary music. He has released four full length albums and toured the UK, Europe and Australia alongside This Is The Kit, Sam Lee and Alabaster Deplume among others.
Having devastated the audience at this years Jazz Stroud festival, The Magic Lantern's live show captures a rich emotional immediacy through spirited improvisation, taught ensemble writing and Jamie’s arresting vocal lyricism to craft songs that examine the limitless depth of the human experience.
His upcoming fifth album ’To Everything A Season’ was written and recorded in the months following his daughters birth and his fathers death six weeks later. In their brief meeting in a dementia nursing home, two ends of the circle of life touched. Of that cathartic moment, Jamie says 'I saw myself in my father, and my daughter in me and I felt joy and grief in overlapping waves, beautiful and complicated, which continue to ripple outward' These songs are my attempt to make sense of this incredible time - ‘A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted’
‘To Everything A Season’ is due for release in October 2024.
The Magic Lantern