CLARA & THE REAL LOWDOWN

From the song "Put the Blame on Mame" performed by Rita Hayworth in the 1946 movie  Gilda

The Real Lowdown are Clara Sanabras (voice and ukes), Dylan Bates (violin), Roy Dodds (drums & percussion), Andy Hamill (bass & harmonica), Mike Outram (electric guitar), Tom Arthurs (flugelhorn), Harvey Brough (guitar, voice, keyboards)

Clara Sanabras, originally from Barcelona, has made a name for herself as a singer all around the world performing with groups such as Natacha Atlas' Acoustic Band, The Harp Consort, Theatre of Voices, Charivari Agréable, Dufay Collective performing a wide range of music from medieval and world music to Stockhausen. With these artists, she has recorded for Harmonia Mundi USA, Signum Records & Zenobia and, as a solo artist, she released her own disc of folksongs for Linn Records. Clara also works in theatre –recently in “Saint Joan” at the National Theatre and on various plays at the New Shakespeare’s Globe. Featured as a street musician in Mike Radford’s “The Merchant of Venice” movie starring Al Pacino, she can be heard on the soundtrack with music by Jocelyn Pook. 

Now a Londoner, she has turned her attention to writing and performing her own music, drawing on all her expertise as a singer and as a player of a plethora of unusual stringed instruments - charango, ukelele, baroque guitar and cavaquinho. Clara teamed up with producer and composer Harvey Brough to record an extraordinary collection of songs, some remembered from her childhood in Spain, some from favourite old films, some original.

Album available on iTunes shortly!