Monocle 24: The Sessions At Midori House

US indie four-piece Hippo Campus play tracks from their debut album ‘Landmark’ and discuss the learning process that comes with writing, recording and performing your first LP.

Illinois-raised Nashville-based country singer Margo Price plays from her debut album ‘Midwest Farmer’s Daughter’ and talks to Andrew Mueller about trying to make it in the capital of country music and the inspirations behind her songwriting.

Musical Mexican siblings Jesse & Joy have taken hispanic countries by storm over the past decade, with sell-out tours to tens of thousands of fans and several albums under their belt, most of which have gone platinum. Now the duo is looking to break the anglophone market.

The Canadian folk legend joins us in the studio to play from her new album ‘Goodnight City’.

Brooklyn experimental pop group Pavo Pavo play for us in the Monocle studios.

We recap some of our favourite performances from 2016, including London soul singer Jones, US indie rockers Local Natives, the legendary Ben Harper and much more besides.

American folk singer Michael Nau is used to playing in bands such as Cotton Jones and Page France – but now he's going solo. He plays from his beautiful new album 'Mowing'.

We revisit some of our favourite festive performances at Midori House over the past few years. Featuring tracks by Hanson, Eves The Behavior and We Have Band.

Piano virtuoso Neil Cowley swings by Midori House with his keyboard – though minus the rest of the trio – to perform from his new album ‘Spacebound Apes’.

The US gospel-punk band hit the studio to play from their latest album: ‘Get Gone’.

Singaporean singer Linying started out her career as a guest vocalist on EDM hits by European producers. This year she’s released her own music on an EP called ‘Paris 12’, which she plays from today.

Julia Jacklin is our favourite singer to hail from the Blue Mountains in Australia. Her debut album ‘Don’t Let the Kids Win’ is an ode to growing up, as she tells Andrew Mueller.

Songwriters Billy Bragg and Joe Henry have been on a journey along the US’s railroads. Their new album ‘Shine A Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad’, saw them hop on board a train and record as they crisscrossed the country. They play a few tracks from the record and discuss the enduring appeal of the railroad song.

Japanese trumpeter Takuya Kuroda plays a solo set in the Monocle 24 studios from his brilliantly named new album ‘Zigzagger’.

We present three of our favourite past performances: folk singer Weyes Blood and LA electro-pop artist Elohim both played for us last year, and Colombia’s Bomba Estéreo, who performed at Midori House in 2013.

We revisit our 2015 session with Canadian electro trio Braids, who came and played for us last May as they released their then new album ‘Deep in the Iris’.

This week’s session comes from UK musician and songwriter Luke Haines, who plays from his new album ‘Smash the System’ and sits down with Andrew Mueller to discuss it.

As London soul singer Jones releases her debut album ‘New Skin’, she comes to Midori House to perform a few tracks from it.

Back in 2014, New Zealander Tiny Ruins – otherwise known as Hollie Fullbrook – came to Midori House armed with an acoustic guitar to play a beautiful set of songs from her album ‘Brightly Painted One’. We revisit the performance in this week’s ‘Sessions at Midori House’.

Ala.ni is a UK singer who makes music with a dash of vintage cinema. This year she released her album ‘You+I’, a series of song about her past relationships. She visits the Midori House studios to play from the album and discuss musicals and her move to Paris.