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
Born in Yorkshire,[2] Scott grew up in rural north-east Scotland; she first played in a band as a teenager alongside her twin brother, the Mangomen,[3] becoming involved in Aberdeen's music scene.[4] In 1999[5] or 2000,[6] at the age of eighteen, she moved to Glasgow to study music, also developing her skills via open mic nights at the Glasgow bar Nice 'n' Sleazy's,[6] the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and The Old Blind Dogs, a folk band.[5]
2006–7 saw Scott touring internationally as a member of Vashti Bunyan's band, and in the UK on the Zero Degrees of Separation tour alongside Bunyan, David Byrne, Adem, Juana Molina, and Vetiver.[7][4][8] At this time, Scott named key influences as 'Emiliana Torrini, Stina Nordestam, Bright Eyes, Ben Folds, Bjork, Kate Rusby, quirky indie acoustica'.[9][10] Other collaborations in the years around 2010 included work with Teenage Fanclub and Admiral Fallow.[5]
The Scotland Herald described Scott's 2013 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".[11][12]
In 2012, Scott completed a PhD in musicology,[4][8] with the thesis "Experiments in schizoanalysis: a new approach to analysis of conceptual music".[13] By 2015, she had become a lecturer in commercial music at the University of the West of Scotland.[14] She has also taught at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.[15]
In the years around 2000, she was undertaking creative work relating to prisoners' rehabilitation, leading to her EP System Hold,[16]: 5 [17]: 9 characterised in The Scotsman as 'featherlight piano balladry with subtle electronic beats' providing 'a chill-out meditation on themes of incarceration, monitoring and suspension of liberty'.[18] The work also involved Scott in a music festival called Distant Voices highlighting the music of people who had experienced the criminal justice system, and her composition of a multimedia piece named A Giant on the Bridge.[2]
Jo Mango band members
At the time of the release of t'[5]
- Jing 'Mango: lead vocals, rhythm guitar, kalimba, toy piano, concertina
- Jim Mango: bass player, backing vocals
- Alan Peacock: backing vocals, guitar
- Katherine Waumsley: flute, piano, kalimba and concertina
- Calum Scott: percussion
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.
- ^ a b 'A Giant On The Bridge: Music project aims to explore attitudes towards punishment and justice', Sunday Post (3 November 2021).
- ^ Anna Millar, 'No ordinary Jo: Mango's eclectic efforts bear fruit', Scotland on Sunday (26 February 2006).
- ^ a b c "JO MANGO INTERVIEW: "I'M A DR OF MUSICOLOGY" – FM famemagazine.co.uk". www.famemagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ^ a b c d Rob Lavender, "Sweet as a Songbird", Metro [Scotland edition] (2 November 2012), p. 55.
- ^ a b "Jo Mango". The Sunday Times. 8 April 2007. p. 12.
- ^ Earnshaw |, Helen. "Jo Mango Exclusive Interview". www.femalefirst.co.uk. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ^ a b Nicola Meighan, 'Interview: Jo Mango', The Herald (2 November 2012).
- ^ 'Local Spotlight: Jo Mango', Glasgow Evening Times (16 March 2006).
- ^ See also 'Singer Jo Mango shares her top five musical moments', Scotland on Sunday (20 May 2007).
- ^ 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.
- ^ Fiona Shepherd, Ken Walton And Jim Gilchrist, "Album reviews: Siobhan Wilson | Beyoncé | The Pearlfishers | Jo Mango & Friends", The Scotsman (7 May 2019).
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Jo Mango".
- ^ McNeill, Fergus (2023-07). "Miller R, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration". Punishment & Society. 25 (3): 791–797. doi:10.1177/14624745221114157. ISSN 1462-4745.
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(help) - ^ McNeill, Fergus; Urie, Alison (2020-05). "Collaboration before collaborative research: The development of 'Distant Voices'". Methodological Innovations. 13 (2): 205979912093727. doi:10.1177/2059799120937270. ISSN 2059-7991.
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(help) - ^ Fiona Shepherd, Ken Walton And Jim Gilchrist, "Album reviews: Siobhan Wilson | Beyoncé | The Pearlfishers | Jo Mango & Friends", The Scotsman (7 May 2019).
External links
- The official Jo Mango website (archived 2008)
- Myspace page (archived 2009)
- anotherday.co.uk - Vashti Bunyan Official Site