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The Magic Lantern is the moniker of singer-songwriter Jamie Doe, an artist blurring the boundaries between folk, jazz and contemporary music. On 8 November he brings his seven piece ensemble to the majestic setting of Hackney's Round Chapel to launch his devastating, life affirming fifth album 'To Everything A Season'. His live show captures a rich emotional immediacy through spirited improvisation, taught ensemble writing and Jamie’s singularly beautiful voice to craft songs that examine the limitless depth of the human experience. 

Written and recorded in the months following his daughters birth and his fathers death six weeks later, 'To Everything A Season’ examines the overlapping waves of joy and grief which continue to ripple outward from the moment where two ends of the circle of life touched. It is an album about our messy humanity, mundane and magnificent; the finality of loss; and the screaming, bloody magnitude of a new life’s first gulping breaths. 

Born in Australia before moving to the UK at 12, The Magic Lantern has released four full length albums and toured the UK, Europe and Australia alongside This Is The Kit, Sam Lee and Alabaster Deplume among others. ‘To Everything A Season’ is due for release on Hectic Eclectic Records / La Buissonne Records on 4 October 2024.

 "Gorgeous, beautiful. This stopped me in my tracks. Slightly surreal, in all the right ways. He’s just one of those artists who sounds totally like himself."

- Jamie Cullum, BBC Radio 2 

“Extraordinary. Beautiful poised singing, amazing lyrics and hypnotic production”

- Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music

"Excellent, intriguing and compelling, a man to watch"

- The Guardian

“Absolutely beautiful, SO beautiful!”

- Huw Stephens, BBC Radio 1

“Throughout these moving four minutes, we experience the immersive glow of love. It’s an overwhelming weight and a dazzling thing of beauty, all at once bringing pain and joy, passion and euphoria – but perhaps most of all, as Doe sings in his lyrics, it gives us purpose and fills our days with meaning. “Without love a clanging cymbal be.”

- Atwood Magazine 

“Dreamy, beautiful. Something very, very special. ”

- Lauren Laverne, BBC 6 Music