Charlotte Roberts Grandmar Song

Regional Victorian vocal artist Charlotte Roberts returns in 2021 with yet another experimental slice of acute documentation on her new track 'Grandmar Song'. Utilising her refreshingly unconventional stripped-back stylistic approach of using her voice as an instrument, Charlotte is an artist who is quickly rising to prominence within Melbourne's vibrant spoken word scene at the intersection of music and art. To bring in the new year, Charlotte is excited to announce that her forthcoming sophomore record Incantations, will be released independently through Ditto Tuesday 6 April. To tide us all over until then though, Charlotte is sharing the stunning sister track to her previously released single 'Grandad Song'.

Enter 'Grandmar Song' - a densely layered a cappella journey through Charlotte's candid mind meandering. Reminiscing old sayings, precious moments and timeless traditions, 'Grandmar Song' follows seamlessly from 'Grandad Song' in a double homage to two people who have shaped the woman she is today. Out today, 'Grandmar Song' was inspired by the tender feelings of safety, support and guidance our grandparents often grant us and acts as a portal to Charlotte's precious relationship with the one and only Edith.

"I'm really excited about this track, because it captures the essence of what it feels like to be cuddled up in a snuggle with Grandmar, or eating one of her meals, or a special something she made like fresh orange juice or a hot water bottle, or fresh sheets on my bed when I went to visit. Grandmar is really one of a kind; she wrote me letters every week whenever I went overseas, never missed a birthday and, when I was at one my lowest times, I lived with her for a time and she helped me turn my life around because she does not fret over things the way I often have in the past, she lives in the moment." - Charlotte Roberts

Charlotte Roberts' multi-disciplinary compositions and live performances have been lauded by industry professionals far and wide from both the music and art worlds. Deploying an original and intriguing body-voice storytelling to her work, Charlotte's debut album Stay In Your Power interrogated the spaces between body, breath, movement, voice, silence, sound, imagination, music, text, song form and improvisation. Now in its final trimester of gestation, Charlotte's second album Incantations is a vocal and loop based album, drawing on the breadth of the voice as an instrument. Featuring stacked harmonies, nature sounds, textural sounds, rhythmic play, beatboxing, soloing and the continuous interweaving of these elements, Incantations truly is as enchanting as its name suggests.