Jo Mango Explained

Jo Mango is the stage name of a British alternative folk and acoustic singer and songwriter from Glasgow, otherwise known as Jo Collinson Scott, a lecturer at the University of the West of Scotland.[1] Jo Mango has also been the name of her band.

Career

Born in Yorkshire,[2] Scott grew up in rural north-east Scotland. As a teenager she became involved in Aberdeen's music scene; her first band was called The Mangomen and included her twin brother.[3] In 1999 or 2000,[4] at the age of eighteen, she moved to Glasgow to study music and psychology, aiming to become a music therapist.[5] There she also developed her skills via open mic nights at the Glasgow bar Nice 'n' Sleazy's, and by playing in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and a folk band named The Old Blind Dogs.

Scott's first album, Paperclips and Sand, emerged in 2006. 2006–7 saw Scott touring internationally as a member of Vashti Bunyan's band, and in the UK on the Zero Degrees of Separation tour alongside Bunyan, David Byrne, Adem, Juana Molina, and Vetiver.[6] [7] [8] At this time, Scott named key influences as 'Emiliana Torrini, Stina Nordestam, Bright Eyes, Ben Folds, Bjork, Kate Rusby, quirky indie acoustica'.[9] [10] Other collaborations in the years around 2010 included work with Teenage Fanclub and Admiral Fallow.

The Scotland Herald described Scott's 2013 EP When We Lived in The Crook of a Tree as "[a voice] so hushed and precise, that it sounds as if it were recorded inside your own head".[11] [12]

In 2012, Scott completed a PhD in musicology, with the thesis "Experiments in schizoanalysis: a new approach to analysis of conceptual music".[13] By 2015, she had become a lecturer in commercial music at the University of the West of Scotland.[14] She has also taught at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.[15]

In the mid-2010s, Scott's work focused on promoting ecological sustainability in music festivals,[16] leading to her EP Wrack Lines,[17] and a project called When Tomorrow Becomes Yesterday.[18]

In the years around 2020, Scott was undertaking creative work relating to prisoners' rehabilitation, leading to her EP System Hold,[19] [20] [21] characterised in The Scotsman as 'featherlight piano balladry with subtle electronic beats' providing 'a chill-out meditation on themes of incarceration, monitoring and suspension of liberty'.[22] The work also involved Scott in a music festival called Distant Voices highlighting the music of people who had experienced the criminal justice system, and her composition of a multimedia piece named A Giant on the Bridge.

Jo Mango band members

At the time of the release of the 2012 album Murmuration, the band named Jo Mango comprised:[23]

Discography

EPs

  1. Antidote (2003)
  2. Fluffy Brain (2004)
  3. The Moth and the Moon / Black Sun (2010)
  4. Wrack Lines (2016 – Jo Mango & Friends)
  5. System Hold (2019 – Jo Mango & Friends)

Studio albums

  1. Paperclips and Sand (2006)
  2. Murmuration (2012)
  3. Transformuration (2014 - Remixes of Murmuration)

Singles

  1. "My Lung" (2007 - Download Only)

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jo Scott . 2024-02-03 . The UWS Academic Portal . en-GB.
  2. 'A Giant On The Bridge: Music project aims to explore attitudes towards punishment and justice', Sunday Post (3 November 2021).
  3. Anna Millar, 'No ordinary Jo: Mango's eclectic efforts bear fruit', Scotland on Sunday (26 February 2006).
  4. News: 8 April 2007 . Jo Mango . The Sunday Times . 12.
  5. Mickey McConagle, 'Mailmusic: R. E. M. Star Popped in for Music Lessons', Sunday Mail (17 June 2007), p. 30.
  6. Web site: Earnshaw . Helen . Jo Mango Exclusive Interview . 2024-02-04 . www.femalefirst.co.uk . en.
  7. Web site: JO MANGO INTERVIEW: "I'M A DR OF MUSICOLOGY" – FM famemagazine.co.uk . 2024-02-04 . www.famemagazine.co.uk.
  8. Nicola Meighan, 'Interview: Jo Mango', The Herald (2 November 2012).
  9. 'Local Spotlight: Jo Mango', Glasgow Evening Times (16 March 2006).
  10. See also 'Singer Jo Mango shares her top five musical moments', Scotland on Sunday (20 May 2007).
  11. Web site: Review of Jo Mango: When We Lived In The Crook Of A Tree (Olive Grove) . . December 8, 2013 . August 2, 2017 . Morrison, Alan.
  12. Fiona Shepherd, Ken Walton And Jim Gilchrist, "Album reviews: Siobhan Wilson | Beyoncé | The Pearlfishers | Jo Mango & Friends", The Scotsman (7 May 2019).
  13. Jo Collinson Scott, "Experiments in schizoanalysis: a new approach to analysis of conceptual music" (PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012).
  14. 'Notes on Contributors', in Writing Creative Non-Fiction: Determining the Form, ed. by Laura Tansley and Micaela and Maftei (Canterbury: Gylphi, 2015), .
  15. Web site: Jo Mango .
  16. Brennan . Matt . Scott . Jo Collinson . Connelly . Angela . Lawrence . Gemma . May 2019 . Do music festival communities address environmental sustainability and how? A Scottish case study . Popular Music . en . 38 . 2 . 252–275 . 10.1017/S0261143019000035 . 165248983 . 0261-1430.
  17. Web site: Connelly . Angela . Scott . Jo Collinson . Brennan . Matt . 2015-08-18 . 'Dead niche' green festivals need to move mainstream . 2024-02-04 . The Conversation . en-US.
  18. Connelly . Angela . 2016-06-24 . When Tomorrow Becomes Yesterday . Planning, Property and Environmental Management . English.
  19. 'Criminologist and songwriter re-imagine an alternative to prison system', Herald Scotland (24 November 2018).
  20. McNeill . Fergus . July 2023 . Miller R, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration . Punishment & Society . en . 25 . 3 . 791–797 . 10.1177/14624745221114157 . 1462-4745.
  21. McNeill . Fergus . Urie . Alison . May 2020 . Collaboration before collaborative research: The development of 'Distant Voices' . Methodological Innovations . en . 13 . 2 . 205979912093727 . 10.1177/2059799120937270 . 2059-7991.
  22. Fiona Shepherd, Ken Walton And Jim Gilchrist, "Album reviews: Siobhan Wilson | Beyoncé | The Pearlfishers | Jo Mango & Friends", The Scotsman (7 May 2019).
  23. Rob Lavender, "Sweet as a Songbird", Metro [Scotland edition] (2 November 2012), p. 55.

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