Nina Winder-Lind & heka (co-headline)

Nina Winder-Lind at The Shacklewell Arms

Nina Winder-Lind’s solo output stands complimentary to, but distinct from, her work with The New Eves. Her debut solo album, ‘Wild Love’, is an ambitious body of work from one of the most enthralling new voices in music today.

There is a natural porosity between the two projects, an overlap of style and themes underlined by contributions from New Eves bandmate Ella Oona Russell on flute, trombone, piano, guitar and characteristic harmonies.

Winder-Lind’s approach to making music has also been profoundly emboldened by playing with The New Eves. “We’ve all given each other so much more confidence as writers and performers. I have learned a lot about breaking rules, doing things your own way and trusting your gut”.

Yet, as she points out, “Up until now, The New Eves haven’t written explicitly personal songs, they’re kind of worldbuilding from a wider perspective.. whereas the songs on this album are much more personal to me”.

In this sense, it feels fitting that ‘Wild Love’is also drawn from a more individual constellation of musical influences.

These include countercultural icons like Patti Smith, Lou Reed, Buffy Sainte Marie and Nina Simone, experimental composers such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass and a lineage of expressive outsiders stretching back from Daniel Johnston to Hildegard of Bingen.

Also important are old soul, doo-wop and garage rock singles, anything “bursting with feeling”; a quality which is also abundant across her musical own projects.