Jacken Elswyth is a banjo player fascinated with old mountain tunes and the power of the drone. She plays in the freewheeling Shovel Dance Collective, free-folk improvisers Sullow and runs a cassette label, Betwixt & Between, which has released spoken word meditations and psychedelic experiments among simpler traditional treatments, its releases decorated by DIY prints of medieval woodcuts.
Elswyth also builds her own instruments, as presented on last year’s Banjo With the Sound of Its Own Making, which included the sounds of sawing, sanding and shaping alongside the playing of the instrument she made during lockdown. Her sounds are regularly beautiful and raw, augmented by scratches, tension and twang, and are given free rein on Six Static Scenes.
