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North Wales cabaret performer FishWidow's album unleashed

Electronic musician Josh Gemmell performs as FishWidow, appearing regularly at events in North Wales, included recently Colwyn Bay Pride and North Wales Pride in Bethesda. Originally from Warrington, Josh has released records under the name 'Jacques 'n' Their Box' in recent years. Describing the music, Josh said: "I love to create haunting soundscapes with my music that continue to blur the line between noisy and ambient styles. I also love to cryptically sing and speak poetry over these eerie worlds. Currently I'm experimenting with disjointed rhythms and Trip Hop styles. "I won't pretend that my music is for everyone, but it certainly scratches a niche with people I've met! I'm inspired by classic 80s industrial bands like the infamous Throbbing Gristle and Nurse With Wound but also love a bit of 90s Trip Hop like Massive Attack and Tricky. The new album The Unauthodox Texts is a collaboration with musician and artist Alpha-27. Josh says fans of the wilder, more experimental side of 90s Trip Hop will love the release. Josh added: "I love The Unauthodox Texts because it's a brilliant combination of contradictions! It is simultaneously the heaviest and most approachable record I've ever contributed to with its gnarly yet familiar rhythms. Lyrically, it starts off as a record challenging religion and yet ends with with two eccentric covers of traditional church hymns. We live in a confusing and chaotic world and I think this record highlights this! "As a queer performer and a practicing Quaker this album almost feels like a queer reclaiming of personal faith and I'm really happy to share it with people. "I've been a fan of my collaborator, Alpha-27 for a while now, having also followed their youtube channel and their journalistic output before engaging in their musical catalogue. Being on the other side of the continent we collaborated remotely via file sharing." "Honestly before starting this project, I was going through a bit of a creative rut so was great to challenge myself and get mixing again! I am really proud of the end result as we both did really well in fleshing out each other's ideas."