A quietly pioneering and deeply influential figure in Europe’s free music landscape, Maggie Nicols has spent six decades forging an intrepid and invaluable body of work through the singular expressive power of her voice. Having begun performing at an early age as a dancer and jazz singer, she joined the groundbreaking Spontaneous Music Ensemble in 1968, an experience that opened the way to a lifetime of improvisation: leading countless workshops, collaborating with artists such as Keith Tippett, and co-founding the Feminist Improvising Group, a testament to the social commitment that has always been inseparable from her artistic practice. Following a series of performances at Café OTO and their subsequent release on OTOROKU, Nicols now brings us her disarming songs for voice and piano. Songs of complete honesty, beauty and exultation, as vulnerable in their discovery of melody as they are fearless in carrying it beyond itself. Joy and togetherness in their purest form. Believe us.