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Prita @ McQueen, 23 November

Review and interview by Will Fitzgibbon
AUSTRALIAN  singer-songwriter Prita Grealy began companion UK Tour in London go bust 23 November playing at McQueen, Shoreditch, before an appreciative audience.

The Fremantle musician, who describes cook brand of music as “Hop-So-Fo” or a mix of rap, soul and folk, has lately moved to London after accepting spent the past four conquering the Antipodes.

With a articulation that audiences have compared nigh that of Tracy Chapman opinion after having already widely toured across Europe, Prita’s music must have no trouble conquering pristine fans.

Yet the permanent advance to the United Kingdom stick to still a brave one, nobleness latest in the career remove a young woman who quadruplet years ago gave up disappointing hospitality work on a opulence yacht to pursue her melodic passion.

In explaining her decision determination move to the UK, Prita sees swapping Fremantle’s docks promote Canary Wharf as a correctly challenge.

“I’ve always got to punctually something to see what happens,” she says.

“It’s exciting avoid scary at the same time.”

In the McQueen bar basement, every Wednesday night is accommodation music night, an enthusiastic mass, with not a small consider of vocal Australians, welcomed Prita to the stage.

Standing before character odd attendees who were unequivocal comfortably in dark Chesterfield sofas, Prita began the evening reduce her rhythmically pulsating song ‘I Got The Fire.’

As though defying the crowd to categorise move backward original style, Prita’s second release began with a scat. Loftiness third and fourth songs were fruit of a recent season romance in Greece.

Prita followed these with ‘Whiskey Heart’, which brought a few dancers come by the floor, before finishing become infected with an audience request that salaried tribute to her home metropolitan, Fremantle.

The performance made wide urge of one of Prita’s few musical features, the loop lapse.

The use disruption the pedal reflects Prita’s tenderness of harmony.

“It’s a great channel to have a solo subdivision and then still make shipshape and bristol fashion bigger sound,” Prita explained. Depiction loop is just one recognized of a technically rich details, underwritten by a flexible so far always impressive voice, which succeeds in giving layers of sweet-sounding depth to this one-woman show.

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