Jo Mango is the stage name of a British alternative folk and acoustic singer and songwriter from Glasgow, otherwise known as Jo Collinson Scott, a lecturer at the University of the West of Scotland.[1] Jo Mango is also the name of her band.
Career
Jo Mango grew up in rural north-east Scotland; she first played in a band as a teenager alongside her twin brother, becoming involved in Aberdeen's music scene, before moving to Glasgow and developing her musical activities there.[2]
Mango has toured extensively as a member of Vashti Bunyan's band,[3][4] since April 2006, throughout North America, Europe, Australia and Japan. In 2007, in the UK, she also featured in the Zero Degrees of Separation tour, becoming an integral part of the band which also features Adem, Juana Molina, Vetiver and Vashti Bunyan.[5] This culminated in a Carnegie Hall show in New York in February, curated by David Byrne.[6]
Jo has also appeared as a solo artist playing shows across the globe in countries such as America, Australia and Japan.[when?] Her tour of America began with a session on Nic Harcourt's show Morning Becomes Eclectic on Santa Monica's KCRW radio station and a performance at South By South West (SXSW) in Austin, Texas.[when?] The Scotland Herald describes Jo Mango's EP When We Lived in The Crook of a Tree as "[a voice] so hushed and precise, that it sounds as if it were recorded inside your own head" (2013).[7]
In 2012, Mango completed a PhD in musicology,[8][9] with the thesis "Experiments in schizoanalysis: a new approach to analysis of conceptual music".[10] By 2015, she had become a lecturer in commercial music at the University of the West of Scotland.[11]
Jo Mango band members
Members of the bank called Jo Mango have included:[citation needed]
- Jo Mango: lead vocals, rhythm guitar, kalimba, toy piano, concertina
- Jim Mango: bass player, backing vocals
- Alan Peacock: backing vocals, guitar
- Katherine Waumsllaying: flute, piano, kalimba and concertina.
Discography
EPs
- Antidote (2003)
- Fluffy Brain (2004)
- The Moth and the Moon / Black Sun (2010)
- Wrack Lines (2016 – Jo Mango & Friends)
- System Hold (2019 – Jo Mango & Friends)
Studio albums
- Paperclips and Sand (1999)
- Murmuration (2012)
- Transformuration (2014 - Remixes of Murmuration)
Singles
- "My Lung" (2007 - Download Only)
References
- ^ "Jo Scott". The UWS Academic Portal. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
- ^ https://www.famemagazine.co.uk/jo-mango-interview-im-a-dr-of-musicology/
- ^ https://www.femalefirst.co.uk/music/interviews/Jo+Mango+Interview-264916.html
- ^ https://www.famemagazine.co.uk/jo-mango-interview-im-a-dr-of-musicology/
- ^ https://nicolameighan.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/interview-jo-mango-2/
- ^ https://www.famemagazine.co.uk/jo-mango-interview-im-a-dr-of-musicology/
- ^ Morrison, Alan (8 December 2013). "Review of Jo Mango: When We Lived In The Crook Of A Tree (Olive Grove)". The Herald (Glasgow). Retrieved 2 August 2017.
- ^ https://www.famemagazine.co.uk/jo-mango-interview-im-a-dr-of-musicology/
- ^ https://nicolameighan.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/interview-jo-mango-2/
- ^ Jo Collinson Scott, "Experiments in schizoanalysis: a new approach to analysis of conceptual music" (PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012).
- ^ 'Notes on Contributors', in Writing Creative Non-Fiction: Determining the Form, ed. by Laura Tansley and Micaela and Maftei (Canterbury: Gylphi, 2015), ISBN 9781780240268.
External links
- The official Jo Mango website (archived 2008)
- Myspace page (archived 2009)
- anotherday.co.uk - Vashti Bunyan Official Site