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The Oxted Sessions are excited to be welcoming American electro-pop singer-songwriter Nite Jewel to the URC this June!

Ramona Gonalez AKA Nite Jewel has been recording & touring since 2008. No Sun (released last year) was her fifth studio album, and was met with immediate criticial acclaim.

Gonzalez?s music transports you to a dreamy otherworld, with scuffed backdrops and oblique, guarded lyrics ? Pitchfork (7.7)

Though Gonzalez has always been a great arranger and producer, this album demonstrates how much she has improved as a lyricist ? The Wire (8)

She?s most compelling on ?This Time,? whose haunted spaces are gradually filled with flickering keyboards and ebow guitar ? Uncut (8)

A weightless, furtive experience, ?No Sun? eschews what we anticipate in favour of something latent and subterranean. A triumph. ? Clash

Following the Her previous record Real High (2017, )Gonzalez began her PhD in Musicology at UCLA in 2018. At the same time, her twelve year marriage and creative partnership with Grammy Award-winning producer Cole M.G.N. dissolved, leaving her homeless and adrift. Though in a state of grief, her studies renewed her focus. Working with only a Moog sequencer and keyboard, Gonzalez improvised along to rhythmic grooves while singing in hushed undertones, which she then meticulously produced into a collection of intimate off-pop masterpieces.No Sun manifests a future out of songs of sorrow, as a part of Gonzalez?s quest to reclaim her subjectivity.

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21 Bluehouse Lane,

Oxted,

Surrey,

England,

RH8 0AA.