Roxanne de Bastion

“I’ve been listening with a great deal of interest to Roxanne de Bastion… Beautiful. " THE NEW CUE Roxanne de Bastion is a critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, author and artist activist who has built an international career independently with sheer talent and enterprise.

Here new album, Here Lies Human, heralds an exciting new era: 10 energetic, upbeat alt-pop bangers about end of days.

Roxanne has worked with producing legends old and new for this album in the form of Tony Visconti (David Bowie, Paul McCartney, T-Rex) and Steph Marziano (MPG producer of the year, Grammy nominated for her work with Hayley Williams).

Here Lies Human is the follow-up to her Bernard Butler-produced 2021 album Me and You, We are the Same (“de Bastion broadens her sound ambitiously, to great effect,” The Observer) and comes after her acclaimed literary debut, 2024’s The Piano Player of Budapest, published by Little, Brown.

The book told the remarkable true story of her grandfather’s persecution during World War 2, and how both he and his piano survived.

It received widespread international acclaim and coverage, including features in The Observer, The Mail on Sunday, BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, ITV News at Ten and the Times Literary Supplement.

Accompanying the book was a companion album, Songs from the Piano Player of Budapest, created with Simon Tong (The Verve).

Both projects were launched with a special event at London's Royal Albert Hall, and Roxanne was the featured guest on an episode of Jools Holland’s BBC3 show Earlier.