JOEL SARAKULA

Description

Joel Sarakula is an Australian and UK artist who writes, produces and sings Soulful Pop, looking at a contemporary world through vintage glasses. His music draws on a rich musical and visual palette inspired by the 1970s, with influences from soft-rock, funk and disco, which he filters to adapt to our darkest times without losing hope.

Born in Sydney, started in London and with an international projection, Sarakula is a composer who has traveled the world in search of his muse, going through everything from being a victim of car theft in the Caribbean to performing in the remote fishing villages of Norway, to the dive bars of Europe and the United States.

His previous albums “Companionship” (2020), “Love Club” (2018), “The Imposter” (2015) and “The Golden Age” (2013) have amassed generous UK and European radio play and have earned him attention from The New York Times, The Independent (UK), The Irish Times, Shindig! (UK), Stern (Germany), Rolling Stone Germany, El País (Spain) and Les Inrockuptibles (France), and he has been interviewed on TVE.

Sarakula is a fixture on the UK and European festival and club circuit, having appeared on the official line-ups of SXSW, Primavera, The Great Escape, Liverpool Sound City, Blue Balls (Lucerne), Blackisback (Madrid), V-ROX (Vladivostok, Russia) and Reeperbahn Festival (Hamburg), as well as performances at London’s Scala and Jazz Cafe and Amsterdam’s Melkweg. Always international, Sarakula tours with bands from each territory in which he plays: a band from Barcelona for Spain, a band from Berlin for Germany, etc. This intercultural exchange evokes the golden age of the 60s and 70s, when American soul and blues artists did the same.