Hailing from Hertfordshire, but now Birmingham-based after graduating from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in 2022, Lucy Mellenfield, the remarkable young jazz-folk singer-songwriter, releases her stunning debut album Tell The Water, She Will Listen with Birmingham’s Stoney Lane Records this January – a poignant and original studio recording drawing on fragility, love, loss and the turmoil of society over the last five years.

 

Produced by Chris Hyson, the album draws on jazz, folk, interweaving improvisation and folk melodies, with immersive soundscapes and vivid lyric writing. The album is released following Lucy’s first full UK tour with her band last summer, taking in London, Birmingham, Newcastle, Leeds, Southampton and Brighton, alongside festival highlights spanning the Cheltenham Jazz Festival to HowTheLightGetsIn. Weaved meticulously throughout an adventurous sonic landscape, featuring keyboards, guitars, saxophones, drums, bass and an extra sprinkling of magic from producer Chris Hyson, Lucy’s writing on the record captures some of the deepest emotions and marked experiences from her life in recent years.

 

2020 saw the release of her EP ‘In My Short Time’ which caught the attention of Steph Nieuwenhuys on BBC Introducing Solent, with her single Beautiful Soul making the Best of 2020 show. The debut single Tournesols was described as ‘monumental’ by Voice FM.  

 

As well as a prolific songwriter and composer, Lucy self-produces her own music videos. With a background in performing arts, Lucy collaborated with dancers from Trinity Laban to shoot the video for her 2022 single Desert. Most recently, she self-produced the video to the first single off the album, Like a Feather.