Coming to North America: Sophie Hunger

The name Sophie Hunger may not be familiar to most of us in North America...yet. Born in Switzerland before moving to London by way of Zurich and Germany her music is a product of her travels. Very much rooted in folk traditions Sophie has enjoyed Top 5 chart placements throughout Europe and has sold over 400,000 records and played Glastonbury Festival. Sophie Hunger is making her North American debut in April 26 with her self-titled album. She is playing a album release on April 28th in New York but hasn't released tour plans beyond that at this point.

Europe has been making a strong showing in the American folk music tradition as of late. Take Sweden's Kristian Matsson better known as The Tallest Man on Earth for example. Sophie Hunger is another such example, not guitar driven like Matsson, Hunger explores more wandering sonic landscapes. Ranging from piano ballads "Train People" to much more modern sounding tracks like her upcoming single "Your Personal Religion" to the more familiar "1983" has that classic 60's harmonica sound that every folky has a soft spot for. There is no more obvious moment of Hunger's influence then when she gives props to Bob Dylan on Sophie Hunger Blues when she quotes "I'll let you be part of my dream if I can be part of yours" before responding with a quote of her own "I'll let you be part of my dream if I can be part of your reality". Sophie Hunger is about to become part of North America's sonic reality very soon when she wanders our way, guitar in hand.