Juice
juice
juice are an experimental vocal trio specialising in vibrant theatrical performances which draw on world music, jazz, folk and pop. They have commissioned countless new works from British composers and have featured on BBC Radio 3's Hear and Now and Mixing It , Resonance FM's Dead or Alive and Classic FM's Chiller Cabinet .
juice are at the forefront of the UK's contemporary music scene, performing in the BMIC Cutting Edge Series and Cutting Edge Tour of 2005 and spnm's The Sound Source series in 2006; most recently they appeared in the Park Lane Group's Young Artists series to excellent press reviews. They have recently become artists in the Live Music Now! scheme, performing in community venues across the UK. In June 2007, they came second in the internationally-renowned Tampere Vocal Festival, and are the only UK group ever to be prizewinners. In January 2007 juice were invited to perform by composer Phillip Neil Martin in the London College of Fashion's Graduate Show at the Royal Academy of Art alongside the 2006 UK Beatboxing Champion, Beardyman. They have had a concerto written for them, Bitter Suite by Stuart Hancock, and been conducted by Karl Jenkins in his Requiem. In 2005 juice premiered Kerry Andrew's new visual-music-theatre work, 'sedna stories', based on the Inuit sea goddess, and featured visuals, electronics and a live 5-piece band. juice feature on a CD of Roger Marsh's Pierrot Lunaire with Red Byrd and the Hilliard Ensemble which, since its release in April 2007 on NMC, has received rave reviews in The Guardian and Gramophone Magazine.
juice performing at Cargo
They have appeared at a variety of London venues including the ENO, St. John's Smith Square, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Cargo and the Spitz and at numerous national and international festivals including the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, fuseleeds06, Settimana di Musica Sacra in Florence, Spor Festival in Denmark, Corsham Festival and the York Spring Festival.
The group are privileged to be the only professional group to perform the Volcano Songs of Meredith Monk besides her own Vocal Ensemble. They worked with Meredith on her songs and she went so far as to acknowledge a lineage between her work and that of juice.